| Show MEMORIAL OF FEDERAL PARTY Filipinos Want Civil Government rJ Not Military Rule V ANNEXATION ANN IS IH to Have lIue au flu il l lIlIle Integral lart of If ilmo Iho United V I f lIf inies V J V Washington Feb F ll lE The memorial of tho time Federal F party ot of tOO Islands was wags transmitted to tho the senate tine this evening by b the tho of or war together V with a 1 aV letter of by Cloy Gov Taft In i whose the tho docu doc document ment was vt n lm Time The V m ivan adopted nt at nn an extraordinary a session of ot tho Federal party held In In Manila In November It sets Beu forth that lout the tho performance of ot obligation of ot tho the treaty of ot Paris which gave the United States Slates authority to fix tho status Hiatus of 01 o time the Philippine Islands had hiatt been ben de lie deferred deferred to this time limo because of ot time the at It attack attack tack by time tho Filipinos upon time the sever sovereignty of ae the time United States an nn act ftC brought about tho the memorial says through n it misunderstanding antI nil II not hatred of o time the American soY sov sovereignty BO U It further states that out of ot time the CO provinces nod and districts war itar exists in only two and anti It also Ilso asserts that It Is a n demon 11 faut fact that the pueblos or towns anxiously ly desire a definitive civil IIII rule rull tool says that those who are aru stilt still In arms allege that the time lark lack of 0 civil r agreed upon and promulgated gated by the time Congress of ot the United States iu mrs n a weighty pretext for tor their belligerent attitude which regime le shall determine at nt once the time political status matua and civil tights of ot tho the Inhabitants of ot the In accordance with tho treaty of at Paris 1011 Time TIll memorial then makes ft a presen presentation tation of ot tIme till deduction of ot tho time Federal party thai should tu to carry aray Into effect Its determination of defining the future of ot the Philippines In their relations to the tIre United States and assorts asserts that there thera Is III no reason reMon for not replacing the military regime by u a civil rule of ot a n popular charac character I ter in lit conformity with the decisive I word lit of if the time forgotten I President V I The Time memorial Is divided Into two I parts The Tho Ih first ot of these la ins n a petition 1 for or annexation and amid ani a presentation n of ot the time form farm of government desired In Inthis Inthis Inthis this subdivision tIme tho Federal party set sets forth that It has hM matte made an un exhaustive I study of ot both tho the timid the Americans and nn concludes that from rom the thu mass muss of ot data collected It Is the time intention of ot time the two tue peoples that they should never neer bo be disunited dl TIme The memorial announces as 08 principles for tOl this Union time tile formation of at a mu more immure perfect union establishment of ot justice thi Insurance of ot domestic promotion of or the general welfare antI anil th till time securing of ot blessings of ot liberty The memorial then proceeds To lo make the Philippines a 11 colony colon oC ot oCth th this United States or oi to grant Inde Inae Independence to the Philippines would be beto beIn betO to In hand the Islands over oer to disorder and ammil to anarchy to destruction and to te chaos In effect the time colOnist colonial system sAI m Involves the principles of ot difference or oi citizenship Inequality of ot rights anti and nd other consequent cons Quent abuses antI and D Injustices of at all ot of which we Filipinos were stir sin felted cited under time the Spanish government V Vand and ton for this reason we ive reject every everything eer thing iming which tends toward a colony Philippine Independence with or with without without without out a t protectorate means a holding of ot r by b all the tribal elements of or tIme the which predominate and would still Mill for somo sonie years yeats until time the anger of ot Filipinos toward Filipinos hall shah have been b n completely Calmed ed Id ton become general anti the fanali fanaticism cism rill we have Inherited from Irom Spain ex exiled exIled ilNi Federation or annexation would set settie tie Lie oil all these thes by concentration conC ion tion of o the Interest t of the Filipino pen pea pl upon education antI labor laborThe Time The then therm pray a II decla ralI by b the Congress of ot the tIme United States State to o the effect that the Philippine Islands a cc they are described In lii tin thi treaty of and omit limo thu subsequent erm i en than VI I Ii Spain are nn arm Iii I IlU pa lU i o f th tIme I II States th time Ihl said Philippine Islands constituting w lory tory with hits rights privilege which the time Constitution of ot the tIme United Hut granite to time the other oilmen nuh mu m HI ag that of lit becoming a II StrUt of ot tn tile Union A form lorm of or government to that of ot the tIme territories of the t It Is outlined nt as mutable for t in Philippine lne I hll plan phul provides fur for r u n governor i Ino I non four executive moo II to be by b the tIme lent of ot tIme the United tl States anti tom for H I senate in addition to a mi ahome home ur of of Ii 3 16 10 of ot whom are aro to by tho thu and ammil the time CM appointed by tits governor Time asks uk Hint that the thu islands Inlands 1 be bi rep In tilt this IM I till 1 House ot of Ki w by IJ II Uto tuu delegates part hart of ot time the memorial sets ell flIrt Il Hi the of ot a Q social antI and antII I CUlt olI time the of ot which time the memorial represents to be time securing of ot u it lI of ut th Ihl mi lIn veil sell 11 Known si al s time tile filar r this timis Insinuation this thu includes Include all Viii thu the order now lu tn UK Inland ilande The rIms memorial says yx of or Hi ii latter hatter that they constitute nn arm dc I which I is II visibly to flu Filipino people lemle Ile securing the noble In d by the of time Unit tul Uti and nd It Is II I de tit clui 1 that the tine abuses abuse abu of ot these thee ord r hUI Iti been boun time Hit cau e of ot tIme the Moody bloody of the tIme SOul and of ur Ihl tim deep killed d t tho time friars and th Ih I It people of ur the time Philippine Inlands C mi Is tl inked risked to take steps to lu rem remedy I m edy these thele evils anti special attention IH Is to 10 Hi tIme made hinds by b bUo ov Taft raft V V complete 1 und mind general to time the Filipino people Is Iii I ticked nuked In th the lied fied portions portion of o the island the time moRmOn hal url says there some fIt of ot per e the time revolution l who II IL I to Ameri Amel American can calm IIII sovereignty for tur acts at of at violence white they were wern In iii the time Held lipid and ta to their surrender In Iii this the time memorial inserts are ale many man revolutionists r who mIte haus h tim ti submitted I who have ha been now Ihl tIVi t fht to tu U L Islands or nm who are ore In III julIa and Iris 1111 oils while white their families suffer the greatest sorrow and ond want Willi I Title This con comi IlIth 1 nl if affairs tIme till con colt consider sider u IL 1 obstacle to complete paci pacification had Oilier r requests made ore are ton for a 11 satisfactory monetary system anti and ap nil of ot tIme tho ho acts act of ot the tue American Philippine commission lon |
