Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-06-02 | Page 1 | Filipinos Ask Action from Congress

FILIPINOS A ASK Ki KiA A n N f FROM OM OMON CONGRESS ON Mission Tells Committee Independence Should Be Granted By Associated ted Press I W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Juno 2 Final Final and Imme Immediate late solution on o of the Philippine question was asked of or con congress ess In n a memorial presented b by the Philippine mission today today- toda at a Joint session lon of oC tho the senate committee on the Insular affairs The mission Is In officially rep- rep reft the Philippine legislature un rend and people It Is for Cor the best Interest 0 of both the States the Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines pints said aid the th memorial th that t the Ind independence of or the lie latter country b be recognized d and established at this time lime Such a n. step will Insure th the tho maintenance maintenance main maln- of a a. firm and lasting friendship friendship friend friend- ship between b t the two peoples and will foster the free development of or their lr commercial relations In tho the future utu it will place Ilace on a hl high h level the honor of oC America b by the fulfillment nt of or her repeated promises to grant treE treE- freedom freed Nn to the f people and thus tu- tu R ate atc te In ht the hearts harts of or the tile Filipinos the sentiments of or gratitude and affection which they now entertain toward towar the thC American people p For Fot the lie first time In lei the hl history lory of or colonial relations a subject and alien race comes cornea to ask severance of their political connection with the i o n nation without recounting any net act of or Injustice done to them theta and demanding reparation r. there r but rather jather with a feeling of or gratitude and affection and with the object and for fur the purpose o of strengthening the bonds of ot moral and material union which have ha bound boun the two p peoples pl H together In an endeavor to establish n. n reign of or Justice democracy an and I peace In the world