Show A RISKY EXPERIMENT In an article In the September North American Review Mr Marlon Wilcox gives an Interesting sketch the character char-acter of the various peoples Ta gal off Vlsayan Moro Malay Tlocanowho are divided and dispersed among the hundreds of the Philippine Islands in dense forests and among inaccessible mountains and of he disturbances which have been occurring among them at Intervals since the discovery of the archipelago He analyzes the records of the conversations and negotiations between Agulnaldo and other Filipino chiefs and American oillcers and agents and finds that such promises of Independence as ivcrc made to the Filipinos were uttered by thoac who were not entitled to speak for the American Government Mr VIlcox docs not think that we should shirk our new responsibilities Have we any reason to believe that the Filipinos could establish a good government fqr themselves that the kind of republic their mestizo leaders claim the right to Institute would bring to them the blessings they desire Does the history of such experiments Ih tropical and subtropical countries encourage I en-courage us to bcllevo It would be leas I than downright cruelty to leave them I to their own devices Frankly I roar that such adjectives an base and Infamous I In-famous might wIth u rather terrible apposItcni3K be cmDlo cd to characterize charac-terize the act of a nation familiar as I our own with the detail of the story of i republican experiments In Central and I South America and the West Indies i I knowing how Idle It Is as a rule to I look for good government qf the tropics bvr the natives of these regions know S lj > g also as we do now that the difficulties diffi-culties are greater In the Philippines than elsewhere and the outlook still more hopeless If that nation having I used HIP power of Its navy and army to overthrow the Spanish dominion I there should then shirk the obligation to set up a better government |