Show JUNKETERS BACK I FROM THE ORIENT t Return of Most of the Party Who Wilo I Went With Secretary Taft t VESSEL BEAT THE RECORD RECO 1 TIME TI M E WAS 10 1 DAYS 11 HOURS H U R I AND FIVE MINUTES San Sail Francisco Sept 27 Tho Pacific Mail Mall Steamship liner Korea Captain arrived today from the Orient boating beating the transPacific record by several hours Among her hor passengers passeri gers were Secretary ot of War Taft raft and most of the members of the party ik h left Ith him for the far east on tho Manchuria on July 8 last The rhe Korea lorell sailed from Yokohama on Sept s pt 17 11 1 and came direct to this city omit omitting ting tIne tho ti usual stop at Honolulu The best time for this passage was made nu dc by the same samo vessel eisel which held the pre pro previous Jou record of ot ten days and fifteen hours hOur u On this th trip she covered the distance Ju jj j ten days eleven el ven hours and five min inn minutes utes an average speed or over eighteen n Knots for the tho entire trip The steamer Empress ss of or Japan has made the run from Yokohama to Victoria in ten days and t ten tn in hours but the distance be between tween een those tho points 1 Is about miles mItes If Ess ss 85 than that covered by the Korea Those Who Returned The following members of ot the original party returned on the Korea Secretary Of War William H Taft aft Colonel Clarence R It Edwards Captain J K n Thompson A D C Captain Wil Wilo William liam Kelly Kelb jr A D C Private Secre Sere Secretary tary tan Fred W Carpenter Major Guy L Edle Private Secretary James A Le LeRoy LeRoy LeBoy Roy Boy Private Secretary W R It Pedigo Senator and Mrs Nathan B Scott Senator and Mrs Fred T Dubois Dubols Sen Son Senator Senator ator Murphy Murph J Foster Senator Thomas ThomasM M lI Patterson Representative and Mrs Serene Sereno E Payne Representative and andrs Mrs irs rs Charles H Grosvenor n and Mrs William P Hepburn Representative and Mrs George W Smith Representative and Mrs David DavidA A DeArmond Representative and Mrs William A Jones Representative Henry A Cooper Representative Charles Curtis Representative George Georgo Ge Edmund Udmund FOBS Foss Representative and Mrs Ebenezer J Hill Bill Representative Theo Thee Theobold Theobald bold bald OUen Otien Representative William M Howard Representative and Mrs Irs Ml H hael E Driscoll Driseoll Representative R pr Charles harIes F Scott Representative Arl An AnS S osto A Wiley Representative and Mrs Irs George A Loud Representative Swa gur Sherley Mrs Sherley the tt C Gilbert Gilbort Representative Duncan E Representative William B McKinley R B dough Clough Anderson Ather Atherton Atherton Atherton ton Louis Chapin Charles lark Clark Miss Clark Ward E B Copley Colonel James D Hill Mrs Mr Nagle Charles T Jobes William Johnston J 3 Burr Durr McIntosh Views of Congressmen Members lI of or the Taft party who ar armed arr I med r cd from tram the tho Orient today have sum summarized for or the Associated Press Pruss their Impressions as us follows Congressman Cooper of at Wisconsin of ot the tho house committee on Jj ular affairs u Irs said saidOn saidOn On e ot of the trip trill will vIlL be in large measure to question ot of immediate Philippine independence nce out of politics Personal study of or the th sit situation situation has hils I think convinced the tho members of at our party Democrats and Republicans that the inhabitants of the Philippine islands are ale not n t now cap ble of free tree self government This con is admitted to be true by edu conservative Filipinos them wives rles though they like a n majority t f the other people of the islands hope or 01 un mi independent government when he h inhabitants of the islands shall be ome fitted to maintain it The pros pro of at the Philippines depends upon heir hir agricultural productions The States has hus done don many noble wonderful things in the Philippines but butts butts butis ts is most mo t glorious work is the etab there of a R splendid system of merican common schools Those These The steadily increasing in number now ts l children out of at ofin in Lu enrollment of more more than will willore ore nore than any oth r influence help to the th multitude of or dialects and and ana regenerate tho the people of ot othe ho he Islands Our experiences China and an Japan were most mo t inter sting and Instructive China IK is being iff f H ted by b powerful influences one and the other external and luse use are at ln mit t having an un effect on ur lf cr ancient conservatism China Waking Up To me inc the tt most significant thing of oC nit li whole trip was a statement mAde luring a u conversation that I had at anton Janton with a Chinaman high In rese business s and aud official life Ute I had remarked upon Japans great groat gre t success ii In peace and war Yes said he we have observed Japans suc sue ess esa 59 We have studied the reason for Cor fort Cort or ort t and we wo know why wb she has h succeeded We Yc e are going to profit from our study China ought to turn over She must turn over I assure you that she will turn over It will take time Power Powerful Powerful ful fut Influences are opposing but China Is going to turn over ocr Among other things he declared that I the th greatest benefit ever conferred by byone b bone byone one nation upon another was when the Unite States Stat s forced Japan Japan to open her Ier doors All this from Crona rolna a Chinaman now in tn authority in China was waR vary ery sig significant sl The last trip has left l t many m ny Important and lasting the tIle of ot those is la tie the impression Pt Q the great part that the United P Stales Is playing and must forever u to th play in the worlds affairs and of of the die consequent grave responsibilities that attach to In the tho United States tates and especially to membership J 4 the American congress Chairman Foss Saw Much M Ch Congressman Foss 1088 chairman oJ of o tHe house commit committee tea on OLm naval naul affairs said ald saidI aldI l I made this thia journey largely lor toy the purpose of ot making a study of lions coming within tho the scope of tnt Hit work of ot the tho committee of ot which I am dm m chair chairman chairman man I had the good fortune fortuno to lO reach Japan s 54 oi OL after the tue battle o cC the tho Hea Heo ea of or Jap in MU au was given every v for and Investigation bv hy the Ue Japanese authorities I 1 visited their theu principal navy nay yards and Socks Jocks and while at met Admiral ve sk then convalescing con from his Ills wounds The Tue Japanese Japal e have splendid yards and are OCO Going Doing Lery very cry excellent work i in them The TM Journey to the Philippines gave me every opportunity op to t see Ca Cavite Carite rite vite Manila bay ba itna SubI bay baj ba and I l lr return r turn home more firmly convinced than ever of the vital pf of tho the es os establishment of or an extensive ext she and arut thor thoroughly toughly ou equipped naval base in the Phil 1 Colonel Observations Congressman Hepburn chairman of ot the house committee on foreign and und inter interstate interstate state 2 commerce said My visit to the Philippines was a disappointment to me In two respects I It was agreeably disappointed to find that tuat my m idea of tiro extent and nd value of ot Q the islands as productive territory was far below the truth I j retard regard Luzon Luzon Lu Luzon zon as the finest and most Uv island in tn the large lame group that thai extends irom from Japan Jalan southward along alons alon the A Ad eI I tWo atle coast I t was disappointed m in that the people of ot the Philippines h It not proved the equal in labor and skill of their neighbors and have not riot taken from tram the soil the riches that nature has plant oil eU Filipinos need education and phy physical steal development and they must ba hi taught t the dignity of labor The United States tates atos line has much to do in the Difficult Problem Congressman Charles F Scott of Kan Kansas Kansas sas said saidI I r think we all aU appreciate bettor better than titan over before how very difficult a lent lem l m the possession of the Philippines has imposed upon the thi United States Slates To govern thu islands primarily for fOI our own benefit with no ne regard tor the iia a tive except to keen him In SUb gub would be a It very ver simple To rc govern them primarily for tor tim h fit of the natives is a task that will ill test to the utmost our tact and skill akili and nd patience While we all realize l more clearly than we did odor our visit I 1 think we all aU came away from the tile islands stronger in the tho that the task we ve have set ourselves must cc re performed and that the end will justify j the endeavors It was a tim prise to most to learn that anI 9 o ner r cent of oC the tillable land Is unde und cul cultivation and that vast areas atea of tie most fertile soil in the world is yc yd un untouched untouched untouched touched The Tho development dev ot oX thi lul ful t l land the tile opening of ot the gr grea ac de do deposits deposits posits of ot coal coat Iron and other oth r minerals and the utilization of ho thc th million acres of at hardwood forests forest for 3 offers a rich richfield richfield field for the Investment of ot American cap capital caPItal capItal ital WIth the tho resources resource de do developed the Philippines will support 10 O people as easily as they hey now flOW main maintain maintain tain tam They are ure the richest group of islands in the tho world and the time thue will wUl come when the United States will count them among its Us proud proudest est cst possessions D ions General G Grosvenor of or Ohio said W v have had a splendid trip and are very ery well Mrs Grosvenor and I have not missed a meal since we left Ohio We e have havo learned much In our journeying journe ing and amid from an educational standpoint the trip has hits been very valuable We Ve have gained knowledge that will wJ 1 be f great erent value und and we could not have haie obtained it ft in iti any mi other X va way ay We Ve have seen and understand many man timings things about the Philippines that were not clear to us before Senator Pattersons Opinion Senator Patterson of or Colorado salt The rho Philippines the tho more knots lwow cf d f them thorn the more inure serious appears the tile hun n I Iam am convinced that in this gov government government w are farther and aud fur far further thor ther aWay from Secretary Tuf Tufts Tafts ta patriotic and amI humane policy the Philippines for tor forthe forthe the Filipinos and Independence Time The gulf lt between the native the tho I American is widening I fear the Phil Philippines are k a volcano M 1 visit to China hits has convinced me mote more than titan ever on tho the wisdom and necessity cf ct Chinese exclusion I believe bellee the boycott will soon be over but In any event j American manhood and civilization is of ot greater moment than Chinos Chinese commerce Japan won me tue front from time the th first An ad Hd admirable admirable mirable people In many ways WIlYS Time The die dis disgust I gust after the treaty was un an organized or effort to prevent the emperor from rati ratifying ratifying tying it Japan Janan i Is tho the most formidable I competitor that the United States and England will pave have for fer tho th commerce oc ot Asia Abia and in a few years If It they hold I their own against Japan many man and industrial changes must take tako place I |