Show CIVIL GOVERN MENTIN IN THE philippines IS PROVING A SUCCESS is governor to ft tells of tho the progress toward I 1 st ant an t Pred predict litts A groat kotur I 1 governor taft reports great progress in the tile government of the philippines in nu an interview at san wednesday ile be baid f 1 I wish the press presa would correct the tha impression that there la is war on all the islands lite hie insurrection Is a confined to two localities the vince of ba tangas aud and the island of samar this thia 11 orning morning I 1 received a most encouraging cablegram from general wright aho who vho to la acting governor in my absence it said that owing to genethal uella bells repressive meas measure kire elie trouble in Data batangan Ba tangas tigas was being quieted iio further said that rifles had beon surrendered dered and as there are arc 1100 to 1200 rifles in ill the province la is no 11 doubt that will be ba peaceful as ab any of the other provinces pi ro vinces 1 I dont think general hell will have need to adopt tho the principal to I 1 dont see BOO that theta will be any necessity for this athla RR as this dispatch plainly indicates that clint tho the province pro vinco la Is iu in a fair way of pacification tho the dispatch then says that there ar are 6 teacher tea chera in the elie islands in places and of thew places are unoccupied oc by united states troops I 1 may eay any that the elie I 1 tnt la not hostile 1 to tile the teaell deac lir li r one was as captured some boine time ago hub but lie was sent back in a ham hummock the ilia Is plain hint chat they no hostility toward pedagogues gues or pedagogy now I 1 wis wiell to impress upon eveia body that oryll alvill 1 is ii a success there is r ft s trong strong peace PEI pai I 1 ty in the islands nud al d it ik fa of the most influential me cocu among tile alie filla picos ainoa they are working earnestly and zealously about happy theira countrymen un try and the government tacy The iare aro using all that la Is inthe irl power to bring in the recalcitrant leaders I 1 have never been so BO encouraged as ti the prospects of the philippines as I 1 the hie past thice chere lias has certainly been a breall change lu III the of tile people they are bt gInnIng to the fact that civil government means bet ter times for them it if you had bad seen tile the fat fai ewell rece that were diverl ine hia by the people ou on my leaving thil islands you would have realized that there was sincerity Blu cerly la fit the elie expression of the wish for civil government to continue rif fifteen teen thousand men will be an aa dimple foice in the islands before tle lle the close of the acar car I 1 was told this thi only a few days before I 1 caroe came away officers thoroughly veined in the hl nation gave me tile figures |