| Show I TALKS OF THE PHILIPPINES Gen Wheeler in n layer favor of cf Relent n and Infantry to 10 Corns Come Operating II iii Smell Force San SlIn Frncisco Francisco March Jos 08 Wheeler favors giving the Philippines a territorial form ot of government Said he heI heI I believe the people are ready for tor I a certain kind of self government They hey could b glen given the power to make laws under such luch a system ot of government as has been adopted for our Territories The municipal governments lre arc al II in time the hunts hands of the nn natives thes and the they gt get along without truble troubie or friction Un Under Under der u a territorial form time the islands coul could be best controlled lie He revIews his Impressions ot of trade possibilities II in the Orient as follow Elland England Russia Germany German and France have bae brae braved war and pestilence In to secure a share harl of the tha wealth whIch wi come to them by commer commercial cial relations wih with these peoples The treaty o of place peace eust cust upon us the ro ms of sovereignty over from nine to eleven clenn million people together wih with the Islands which the they inhabIt containing on an orel three times that of our great and prosperous empire State Very naturally ther there many moy be bOlest hottest difference cit at opinion os as to whether everything has been conducted during the two IWO years In with lh the tho highest wisdom and best possible judg judgment merit ment but there should be no question among the American people 18 as to time the duty duly and wisdom uniting tn in ft a determined effort to take the situation ns as It stands arid and to so 10 conduct the U at fairs of our country countr a as to add the most to Is its glory ilor and ty It f is II a friendly struggle for tor corn com supremacy In bleh our rival nations are using their best and andI I sa say let us In a 0 friendly but deter spirit use our best efforts also Our cites cities are no now face ace to tact fact wih with the tho eastern stores ot of tin The Nicaraguan canal wi will brn bring our gulf lf ports nearer to them than those o of tie time Atlantic and Europe Wih With Mania Manila ftc a great depot steam ers era from that emporium could reach the commercial of eAstern Asia n as readIly a as It can be done by English steamers from We must consider that about one thir third the population of th the earth Is con concentrated In the eastern halt half ot of Asia and nd that these vast multitude arc rp rap rapidly Idly learning to appreciate the thur adan advantages and I add the necessIty l of hiGh Ind and the they tire are also learning to realize time comfort which li iii enjoyed by the ot of the most civilized nations In the possession and use ot of the products manufactures and mechanical developments which are I there found I Europe and American must purchase I the tho sik silk tt teaS coffee hemp spice and I products of the handiwork ot of the people ot of the Orl Orient nt and this immense lion needs artIcles which American merican ton tartan unit factories are cheaper and beter better than those which are Aro produced anywhere else on earth carth Cotton coth cloth such 1 as Is manufactured In Southern cotton mils mills Is needed b by the people ot of the I East nt to the enormous dollars doURn value alue of tour to five thousand million millon England with her na navy hal has ap China b by the tho sea und anti 11 hias es ci Or firm footholds at favorable Jo 10 cation on time tho cost coast France h lisa nc ac acquired catons In Asia la which con lain n A population tour four times as great Ind and nn an area arta nearly ten times 1 as large 1 as that of our empire State dominion and dependence dependencies In Asia Asiano no now extend over oer an Area of square miles Id and contain n a pop population laton of nearly nearl already hi has hasIn In Asia territorY exceeding In area I G 00 square mies miles and containing over Ocr people people C Port Arthur the g great at commercial and war port Is I firmlY In her gasp grasp This gives Hussla power over oer Korea Koren which wil much to her strength The o of the railway and Is Its branches the opening of th the Nicaraguan gul canal and the In an annexation of the Pacific Iland to time Unite UnIted States wi will more thoroughly rev the commercial relations ot of the world than hii lies ever been done b by byall nl all other Influences combined during the thelast Int last three thrle centuries It I seems to me that there Is but lt ill le tie limit to the possIbilities which are betor before us and WI we lire are certainly justified In the belef belief and hope that the Unite United States la is on the c edge e of an era of un unprecedented properly prosperity New York March 8 special to the herald Herold from rein ton says sas D By dl di of Acting Secretary ot of War reton Instructions have been sen sent to Major General Otis to return to th time States time In May one battalion each ot of time the Fourteenth l and ond infantry The withdrAwAl of these troops was recommended by Major General I several months o lie He out tl to the department that the tho three I designated t t would have ble been two years In th the Philippines In June next next There I is no doubt that the decision of the tho department to withdraw number snore more than one thousand two hundred men Is to some extent by the ratIon or of the rebel any army and time the prom pro prop p poet t that the American troops wi will mm longer loner meet with resistance from mm an organized tore force the arlon action of the tie de In ordering home these thele bat officers who have served In the Philippines and who have hae Jut Just returned say ay that this must not be taen taken to mean menn that time the rebellion ha been sup suppressed pressed The insurgents nt are operating In forces scatter upon the Ibe approach of American troops but which reassemble and attack whenever a 11 col good opportunity presets presents Is itself lf A wel well known officer In Luzon writing to n a friend In this el city gives I it as his opinion Ion that the rebellion wi vIll riot not be en entirely Urel suppressed In les less than ten years er |
