| Show GOVI TAFT ON I PHILIPPINES No Concealment of Anything About I Their Condition r TILE THE CONCENTRATION CASHS CA It I tae Wat u N VI Thought of li lili Eats li In him the ilio Ordinary A itU Ae c of 01 ilio Ike tbt Term JUI Chicago Jon Jan Tho only anI nn ver verI I have hlll to make to tho time ot of Indi Individual Ill vidual ob who di lar that th Ihl tIme true rime condition In tho time Philippines IH Is l be lie being 0 ing lug concealed or oi that We am nrc ol hugging delusions of ot peace that can UI never naver nver be lie e brought blought about Is that the government is II concealing nothing and that Us its Is con conclusions COl are Iro not biased based on wild wilI theories but substantial This was wa the reply cloy Gov Taft Tad made I hoie hee today toJa to a 1 statement published by y Stephen Bonsai declaring that des desperate dO tte potato opposition wu Ii Lis still oUI being ollI en encountered countered in time tho field lell antI and that lie tho nn nl lives Uen mire are irreconcilable and bettor Jetor or cm organized titan than before tho time capture of ot tio Tuft Taft att said that tha although there thero WitS MOB a 0 time line when for military reasons it I hud hail hul not hot been heen advisable to make 1111 pub hUb public lie lic le everything occurring In iii time the pins s time tho necessity for tor such secrecy Is over uvel ovel and that no effort Is now being bell mode to conceal any nimy IY part hart of or tho the truth the tho PeoPle of ot this country As a u mater aler of ot fact tact ho he added time tho of oC distrust are Me being b kept alive by who seize upon every over petty point anti and Ind seek to 10 twist It Into some Iome horrible barbarity of our OUI government In tho the Islands IRlan 8 Take Tako for lor instance time the talk talle about Although I am nm not well wel acquainted with the time full tul military plans hilans to speak eak with wih absolute authority 1 i can say Bay ay that time the whole subject Is II much misunderstood by our people As n a matter luter of or fact act tnt there thore has hui never evor been any Iny thought of ot establishing con concentration camps In time the ordinary ac no acceptance of ot tho the erm Term All AI that t has hascon been con IH III an all Insurgent cordon the lime establishment of ot a II deadline ea lne Into which will 11 gradually be drawn draw nil ni tho the remnants of oC Insurrection that exist The Time noncombatants bul un 1 the tIme Island have liaa tho the period MO never neer even nt at hardest of at the time war received anything UI thing but the lie utmost utmos kindness and anti consideration C at atour our hands and it la is probable that this policy will wi b b j reversed now that the opposition Is fast ost drawing to top p it close Time The hc governor believes that hint the tIme only existing opposition to tho lie authority ol or orthe the States is being fomented by bythe bythe the men who vho form the time Junta most of at whom were iero formerly residents of ot tint the Ih itch province ol or It I is I In iii II this province he wont went on that wo we e are arc now meeting with our only olly difficulty My statements concern concerning ing In the close cloe ot of the time rebellion are art nol nio IO optimistic In II the that they are ar overdrawn They ale tue based bused upon noth nothing tag ing Ilg put nit plain facts 5 The natives are arC rapidly developing an al nT for tor our Institutions anti and 1 ld n a largo large number of ot former Insurgents have become valuable of ot time tho till community fully tully worthy of or tiny any ny trust hust that natty may ml be bo reposed In them item The rime com corn coming ing h elections will develop the time real reat rocs td 8 in iii this direction and anit I am nm certain that hint the result will wi be lie gratifying The Time restriction placed on the thA lego of or the lie ballot balot are principally ot or nn aim 11 tt educational character n a fact that will wi of or course cut out numbers ot of Filipinos Hut But course this title Is a n condition that wIlt will wi be bet het bettered bettered rapidly The Time progress of or education tion 1011 Is la satisfactory anti and our policy inthis In this thle direction Is liberal No Ni N obstacle of ot any character is put In the tho way WO of ot the time vanish parish schools school a in indeed deed d It Is IH now generally understood throughout the Islands that the tho lie govern government government ment will eagerly welcome the time 1 of ot additional institutions of at this character as a long ns nR they conform 16 to the educational standards standard demanded In our public schools antI and Instruct pu pupils pus pils in the English I language It I Is ut ul utterly tony terly Immaterial to 0 us mis what the clinic char character acter aeter of ot the school is All Mi factors that will 1 aid all In tho tha work of at education are re welcome ClOt Gov Teft Itt refuses to 10 discuss the fu tu future tore ture of or He lie Il says nys that lint the el loaders fate late Is In the tho hands of or orthe the military branch of ot time the service en tn entirely n lively thel that the time civil civi arm irm has haa the responsibility his Ills behavior of ot neither his lila custody nor nr I |
