Show PIMPING FILIPINO Such a possibility that th the Philippines may some time exist Independently of ot ofus ofus otus us has not heretofore been openly considered con con- b by the Journals that support the tho Republican Philippine policy and their theIr Indorsement of or It Is 18 a a. new position Whether It Is the beginning of ot a general general gen gen- eral movement t toward ward treating the Philippines as Cuba has been treated led or I la Is only a n. passing phase of oC popular thought It Is too early to say A of oC Influential Republican Journals have been strong and con consistent consist consist- t l ent advocates of or ultimate Philippine Independence Independence in In- In dependence ever since the discussion began Among them may be named the Philadelphia L Lodger Ledger and North American the tho Boston Doston Advertiser Ad the thc Buffalo Express s the Dispatch and the San Francisco Tall There Is la lano i ino no change e In their attitude But It la is something new for tor the Cleveland cland Leader L Republican to say that what the J United has done for tor Cuba may be done some Bome dl day for Cor the Philippines Philippines- and for Cor the Brooklyn Times can to remark that In time the United States will vill produce In the Philippines 1 the same miracle which was wr wrought yesterday In Cuba The Kansas' Kansas City 1 Journal Republican admits that perhaps perhaps perhaps per haps Independence ma may be granted some Rome da day and the Chicago Tribune be be- that If It the Philippines are arc a n pro pro- gre race nice as the Japanese have R shown hown themselves to be the future will see them Independent If the they desire Independence independence Independence In- In dependence And It I Is predicted b by the tho Boston Doston Record Republican that before be before fore September 15 1904 Theodore Theodora Roosevelt will have taken taleen tho the first official om- om s cial steps looking to the establishment 1 of self government In the thc Philippines along much the thc same lines as those thoc laid down own In Cuba Literary Literary Digest oi |