Show SENATOR ROARS NONSENSE I Senator Hoars plea for peace with the Filipinos is a little lacking in def niteness What does he meat when hess he-ss I is idle to tell us that these I people are not fit for selfgovernment the way to prepare them for liberty Is to set them free Does he mean that the United States should abandon the islands to their fate and come away from them forever That Is the only way In which we could absolutely set them free Then too what does he mean when he says It is desirable to have a commission appointed representing repre-senting all phases of political life men of the highest character and standing to ascertain the facts as to the Philippines Philip-pines andmake them known to Congress and the people Does he not consider the present Philippine commission the kind of body he describes And if not how would he go to work to find one that more perfectly meets the test of highest character and standing The Taft commissioners are not only doing everything possible to conciliate the Filipinos but arC actually at work educating ed-ucating them in the art of selfgovern ment What more could be done than they are going to bring about peace and OldEr and establish free government There is about all the antiimperial ists clamor over the Philippine situation situa-tion the same Indeflnltenesa that appears ap-pears In Senator Boars speech They are eager for the Supreme court to decide that the Constitution follows the flag ignoring entirely the fact that If the court were to decide In that way all possibility of getting rid of the islands isl-ands of allowing their Inhabitants to rule themselves would be destroyed 1 he court so holds then the Islands I wHl be as much parts of the United States as New York State or Pennsylvania their citizens will be endowed with all the privileges of citizens of the United States and the present Insurrection will become open rebellion of American citizens against the Government and those participating In it will be guilty of high treason I will be Impossible after such a decision to treat the Phil ippine jpojle 1 na the CubAns arc being treated for that would Involve ultimate I mate Independence and Congress has no right to promise ultimate independence independ-ence to the people of any integral part of American territory The only way In which the people of the Philippines could receive the full privileges of citizenship II cit-izenship would be through the conversion conver-sion of the Islands Into States ot the Union with all the tariff and other regulations reg-ulations which apply to existing States This Would precipitate a condition of afTairs compared with which the present pres-ent Philippine problem would be n I trifle In fact nothing except a constitutional I con-stitutional amendment would enable us to solvo IL New York Commercial Advertiser I Ad-vertiser I S |