Show GREAT PROGRESS MADE Good Effect of Returning Order In Islands Felt Coincidentally with the entrance of the commission upon its labor I caused lo be Issued by Gen MacArthur the military Governor of the Philippines on June 21 1900 a proclamation of amnesty am-nesty In generous terms of which many of the insurgents took advantage among them a number of Important leaders This commission composed of eminent emi-nent citizens representing the divers geographical and political Interests of the country and bringing to their task the ripe fruits of Ions and intelligent service In educational administrative i and judicial careers made great pro gross from the outset As early as August 21 1100 It submitted submit-ted a preliminary report which will be laid before the Congress and from which it appears that already the good effects of returning order are felt that business Interrupted by hostilities is improving as peace extends that a larger area is under sugar cultivation than ever before that the customs revenues are greater than at any time during the Spanish rule that economy and efficiency In the military administration adminis-tration have created a surplus fund of 0000000 available for needed public improvements that a stringent civil service law is in preparation that railroad rail-road communications are expanding opening up rich districts and that n comprehensive scheme of education Is being organized ENCOURAGING ADVICES Later reports from the commission show yet more encouraging advices toward to-ward insuring the benefits of liberty and good government to the Filipinos In the Interest of htimanltv and with the aim of building up an enduring selfsupporting and selfadministering community in these farKnslern seas I would Impress upon the Congress that whatever legislation may be enacted en-acted In respect lo the Philippine Isl minds should be along these generous lines The fortune of war has thrown upon this Nation an unsought trust which should be unselfishly discharged and devolved upon this Government amoral a-moral as well aa material responsibility toward time millions whom wo have freed from nn oppressive yoke WARDS OF TPIE NATION I have upon another occasion called the Filipinos the wards of the Nation Na-tion Our obligation as guardian was not lightly assumed It must not be otherwise than honestly fulfilled aiming aim-ing first of all to benefit those who have come under our fostering care It Is our duty so to treat them that our flag may be no less beloved in the mountains of Luzon and the fertile ones of Mindanao and Negros limn It is at home that there us here It shall be the revered symbol of liberty enlightenment en-lightenment and progress In every avenue of development The Filipinos are a race quick to learn and profit by knowledge lie would be rash who with the teachings of contemporaneous history In view would fix a limit to the degree of culture cul-ture and advancement yet within the reach of those people if our duty toward to-ward them be faithfully performed |