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Show The Filipino commission which Is visiting thin country is everywhere well received, and Ik winning favor and consideration con-sideration by its tact and ability. The business of the commission, which Js composed of natives, is to look this country over, study the. workings of its Institutions at first hand, and report such form of autonomous government, consistent with American Ideas and Filipino capabilities, as will be suitable for a start In homo rule. Secretary Taft, In his conferences with them, nnd In hlB public talks, Is distinctly favorable favor-able to tho assumption by the Filipinos of a fair measure of home rule, and hopes that they may be prepared for It when he visits them again, which he hopes may be In two or three- years from now. No one In this country Is so well qualified to speak on this subject as Secretary Taft Is, and where he is fo hopeful, tho country inny well bo encouraged en-couraged as to the Filipinos' future. |