Show THE KEY TO THE ORIfcNT > Archbishop Chapelle considers the Philippines the key to the Orient His reading coupled with his recent duties and personal experiences In the Islands and Information gathered r there have led him to this conclusion He is a man of great learning and I very extensive personal contact with I men and their affairs so that his judgment judg-ment Is worth much on this question We are glad Indeed to have the Judgment Judg-ment of such a man to this purport How different and Immeasurably more satisfactory such an opinion Is than the crude and vapid outcries wo hear so much of in this country that the archipelago Is of no value that we shall never get our money back out of it and that the trade we get or may expect is insignificant In fact the trade that the Philippines will be the clearing ports for as the Asian races get settled down to business will multiply mul-tiply by two the trade we now enjoy on the Atlantic It is a pity that some such church dignitary as Archbishop Chapelle or Archbishop Ireland could not be made tho Papal representative In the Philippines with plenary powers pow-ers to establish a decent priesthood there routing the disloyal scum who have been fOund guilty of falsehood treachery counterfeiting and so many fdrtns of double dealing Gen Chaffce considers the situation in the Islands to be hopeful in spite of the treason of wfiole towns that use the Americanframed civil government govern-ment as a mask to hide their participation partici-pation with the insurrectionary forces Thelatest Instance of this was In the telegrams yesterday morning where a town in Mindanao had while nominally nomi-nally officeredby natives chosen under American methods by popular elections elec-tions supplied ammunition to the insurgents in-surgents This case seems however not to be as serious as the former case of like character wherethe officials of Taytay engaged in murders of loyal l people and were In fact a regular command of the insurgent army In spite of these things however and of the intermittent outbreaks of hostility Gen Chaffee thinks matters are going reasonably well in the islands and the American people ought to be content with his assurance I |