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Show tlon la a traitor ta his own peo-plo. peo-plo. "Relations between tha Philippines Philip-pines and America have exlated for twenty years and ara going; to continue to exist. My purpose out hare Is to cooperate. We must work together. Our Idea of a good government ta under one which capital eeeke Investment al nominal rates of Interest. - Um-lees Um-lees we puU together we can never nev-er hope to attain that conditio! here." Referring to the Philippine Na. t tonal bank, regarding; which hla recent meaaage to the lg tela tun waa made publlo yesterday Got eraor General Wood said: 'The bank Is In better condition condi-tion now than It has been at any time In the laat four years. We have not atopped circulation of tha bank's money. What we hart done Is stop the free and uncontrolled uncon-trolled circulation of public fundi among Ms friends. Ths lid Is now on and cannot he pried off by political po-litical favors. It will stay on ex-kcept ex-kcept for eminently sound Investments." Invest-ments." Bradford Hardon. an American sugar man. addreeaed the chamber cham-ber on the result of hla and George T. Walker's Investigation of sugar centrals. Ha aaJd tba central! (mllle) would be bonded If do tails could be arranged with the Philippine National bank. Mr. Hardon denied reports that he and Walker had been received anywhere with hostile-demonstrations or that their hotel had ever been stoned. He said they had been, received everywhere with tha tmot courtesy.- s GENERAL WOOD SPEAKS PLAINLY OF ISLAND WOES Head of Philippine Gov eminent Says Efforts to Stir Up Race Feeling Against U. S. Failed MANILA. Aor- IS (By A. P.) Governor Central Leonard Wood, addressing the American ch.imber of commerce, at luncheon here at noon today declared that there le not a tingle political Issue' In the Philippine! today and that efforts to stir up race feel In against -the Americana had failed. The governor gover-nor general said: "The time has come for some plain speaking. I believe in telling tell-ing truth, even though It hurt. There le got a single political la-sue la-sue at present In the Philippine although there hare been effort to make one. No man worthy of the name of American or Filipino will talk noneooperatlon at' this time. . 'Titer, have, been iltempti. "fn stir up rsclal antipathy between Filipinos and Americans. But. thanks to the common sense of both Filipinos and Americans thev. have been failures. Any man' who tried to stir, up racial an,tj-pathy an,tj-pathy or who talka noncoopera- |