Show Af4LT PEOPL EXPEGIE Result Hoped for from Philippine Philip-pine Commission I PROBLEMS IT MUST SOLVE Commissioners Ar Entertained at a I BanqvicL in San Francisco White Ii law Reid Delivered the Principal I i Address Tells the Commission What Americans Want in the Islands Isl-ands First Order then Justice then Amciican Civil Rights for All then Local SelfGovernment mn Francisco April 12A banquet was tendered the Philippine I I I commissioners commis-sioners tonight by tin merchants of Ibis city The principal address I was made by Jlon Whitelaw Reid After refer t j ring to the nonpolitical significance of I the occasion Mr Reid said In part What do the American people in general and nlthout I distinction of I parly look to jou for If the truth must be whispered In your ears there are Item e and there I very sincere capable capa-ble people who are growing a bit weary of a mu tlpllclty I I of commissions They so cynical ore they that In all ages and countries the rosiest method of evading or postponing a dllllcult prob loam has been to appoint a commission on It I and thus I prolong the circumlocution circumlocu-tion For a thsi thing then in which we are united we wish you to redeem the character of this mode of government govern-ment by commission For we assume that you are sent out to the archipelago archipela-go lo govern and just at present we dont know of any part of our possessions posses-sions that seem < in more in need of government I govern-ment mentWe We all unite in adjuring you to remember re-member that I you are setting sail I not only charged with i the t national t I interest inter-est but t I I lied dgnllled and ennobled by a guardianship of the national honor we an unite t venture lei inmic in eaneuly wishing lhal you may nr nice the host of a situation which none uf Us wholly like and many dislike with all thtir I Innrii the best of It I fur the I ioiintrv I i which by good manage menl ur had rightfully or wrongfully Is al any niic certainly and in the eyes of the whole world now responsible for the I IUteeme and the best of It no less for the dlsiraclcd people thrown upon our hands Ue cannot lulp unitm In lh I < fur liar hope that your Hist MIICCSS will Le the I rcistiblisluncnt nf I order I lit jmghou L Hgiuns laldy hi led with I t I lolcjic md 1 hloodslud anrl that I you can tlun I bring about a syfuem of Just j and swift I punishment I itt future crimes of disorder In the ln < Msts of he islanders you will soon seek t rnlsp tlic revenue they need In the way least burdensome unel most bent lkini to thcnv IJIH in the Interest In-terest of your country we cannot cx noeL you lo heulu bv l assumlncr that the only way to help thr islanders is i to throw I products of their I cheap labor Into unrestricted competition with similar sim-ilar t products of our highlypaid labor In I lie I Interest I of th > Islanders you will secure and guuiantee to them the civil rlglilH which belong to the very genius of American Institutions i I I I but I Jn the IntMcPls of i oiir eountry ou will L not make haste to extend the priv ieg I uf Amerlran t cilixrnship I 1 which on the one hand oiild enable those I peoples of lie I China I su < iii muse or I halfbleed i or what not lo Hood our I la bor m market in i adane < of nny readiness i readi-ness al home lo change our present laws of exclusion and on Ihe other hand would open the door to them as Stales In I the I Union I lo tuKr part In I the government of I this I continent I I If I In I lie I provlclenrc of God and in colt I emmipt of past Judit ial rulings I I the Supremo court should finally I moat mm mud II you like every other branch of the Oocrnmenl will obey Till then we may be sure you ii lll not In I sheer eagerness and Jrtyfulness of heart anticipate an-ticipate I or as Wall street speculators say discount nich a decree for national na-tional I degradation J > nl In I heir own land and as far 1 as may be in accord ance1 t with their old customs and laws you will I secure l ii them If I 1 you aro to win the success ire ill iishi you every civil right we enjoy and next tho I fullest full-est measure of political I t rights t and local selfgovernment they I are found capable of sustaining ivitlt ordered liberty for ull th I neonle There then Is the doom we expect you to Inflict on thote temporarily turbulent tur-bulent wards of the Nation First order then I jusllc j then I American civil rights not for a class fir a Irlbe t or aim a-im cc but for all I I the people then localS local-S Ami may God help you to fulfill this task Above all If there Is a traco of poll tics In your work or of seeking for political effect at home you will fall and deserve tu fall Trof Moses and Judge Taft of the commission spoke briefly Judge Taft salJ 1 in part Our mission is to establish a civil government In the Islands but If ito establish a stable government with the greatest liberty possible we will also le I doing the t country great commercial benefit We will do what we can to rolve the different problems set before L us of which education is the most Important Im-portant Politics will pla > no part In the policy of the commission United Stalts Jlrcull Judge W AY Morrow was toastmaster |