Show V i Vi THE THE FILIPINO VOTE SS I SS N The The Nation has a sneering article over the elee- elee Ja hi the Philippines Ph It says The large maJ majority ma ma- J y vot voted d for imm immediate dia e independence e electing Ar thirty while the only had ten ten s and r. r adds dds The most obvious proof of unfitness for s self self government f government is this refusal of of the Filipinos to t love e us us and to acknowledge our QUI merits as a race o oi of f 7 supermen u i rt l li S. S i. i J That T at w would uld have had some point if there had hadl l beena 6 been en a ge general eral fa fair r bringing out of the voters But Butr a i election shows hows that the of th the r the masses people are a 4 entirely indifferent as only one voter in In p perhaps r thirty took th the trouble to go t to the polls There are area fy a a few Jew vagabonds who would like to have a revolution revo revo- Y luti lution o n nevery every mornin morning They all voted The I great greath eat h body o of the people did not vote at all r In the same article the Nation says Do the they t see c tl their industry crippled rip ea their farmers barely reC re- re C d. d j covering from years of war pestilence starvation and the loss of their animals Y That is one of the Nations Nation's jokes What was wa their condition when the Americans took hold in what shape were their farms how many lUany of them had hac farms how were their taxes compared with their present taxes were their children attending school as they now are did the Governor-General Governor leave them anything but a bare living How much worse than contemptible for an American newspaper to put out an an article which to toa a stranger would b give the idea that the Filipinos were once comfortable happy and prosperous until subjected to American rule mile when the truth is they were about the most oppressed people on earth sold into slavery for the slightest debt their earnings earnings earn earn- earn earnings ings confiscated by mer merciless iless officers ers who were there solely for the purpose of plunder their children growing up in nakedness and utter ignorance no hope in this w world and no no hope backed by any knowledge o of a world to come The Nation ought to be published publish cd under the Cross of St St. George under that merciful nation with all its free trade which the Nation so much adores which has robbed every dependency of the crown and made bankrupt every nation that has ac accepted the beautiful theory |