Show FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE DAY With f the amnesty for all who have resisted the United States authority In the Philippines together with the complete com-plete turning over of the Islands to civil rule both on the Fourth of July the Filipinos will have reason to adopt our Independence day as also their own rite progress thus marked takes a problem out of current discussion dis-cussion In this country as rapid progress pro-gress as could be expected by any body is being made It is not to be expected that there will he no more brigandage in the lanos l nor that the quiet of a longsettled peace such a wo cnjoy in our horns communities can cover the archipelago In Us all embracing folds ns a wellfitting cloak all at once BUT it Is to be expectol that the police force and liiu processes of law as enforced by the officials of thin courts will in general be sufficient to mallnln order and that the need to call upon the military to overcome awpssness will come with less and less frequency The Filipinos have tested thoroughly their ability to resIst the supremacy of die United States and have found Itxeriously wanting Its It-s therefore inconceivable that any organized or-ganized insurrection to throw off that supremacy could attract to Itself any material strength Indeed for two years back the fighting has not been with thc forces of any organization hat had in view the independence of I he Islands but only wllh I the dls > crsel bands of the former organized annie these handti being under lie command of Isolated chiefs who did tot work together for any common purpose but each for himself their sole object being murder and pillage These chiefs hiil l the Idea that t s un lor tho Spanish control uuch brigand ximis bad been able lo harass the country at will I I thoy could maintain themselves indefinitely The Spaniards lever penetrated the wilds and the nountatrs and so the marauders were iblo to escape pursuit by taking to here shelters But the Americans pursued pur-sued these brigands relentlessly there was no place they could go that the oldiorw did not follow and more than ne of the lenders had occasllon to cry out as did Agulnaldo How terrible ter-rible arc these Americans That lit tie or none of this sort of thing will IJLVU to be done in the future Is ovi lently the expectation of the Admin stralion as It is i the hope of the country coun-try |