Show TO HOLD AND GOVERN the november forum has an interview with ex minister denby who for a dozen consecutive years was waa our minister to china on the philippine question during the record breaking official residence abroad mr denby hart had of course opportunities for learning of the adjacent countries and he seems to have improved them he Is of the opinion that if it could be ascertained today that an army would not be necessary or that even a small body of troops would suffice for the purpose of looking after the islands the opposition to their annexation would woula i be dimin I 1 he a considerably considerably he thinks it the dread or a great force that the people shrink from mostly and says saye we might pattern rn tt orn after great britaina Brit ains east bast indian policy in that respect with profit vr mr derby thinks minks we have the right a i conquerors to hold the philippines that we w have the right to hald them 0 01 4 part payment of a war indemnity this dolled may be characterized as to spain but it Is the result of fhe of war all nations rec that the mity may dictate the terms of peace the first answer h rc aceved eved to a telee rai sent by him asking on the part of china that peace negotiations should be oommen commenced ced hw toft offering to concede the independence gel of cores corea and to pay a reasonable WU wf t 4 indemnity was japan is willing to enter on peace negotiations but sl aha will dictate the terms mr denby says he is in favor ot holding the philippines because he be cannot conceive of any alternative to our doing so except the seizure of terri I 1 tz tory in china and he prefers to hold hola them rather than to oppress furth further elki the helpless government and people OV 04 china he wants china to pres presence erye her autonomy to become great and prosperous and he wants these result not for the interests of china but for or our interests he states that he is not the agent or attorney for china and as aa an american looks not to the promotion of chinas cainas interests or spain s ar or 1 any ther aher count rys but simply of out ou own Z these are wise and patriotic utterances t the philippines were designed for a att t ferent destiny frum from that which bouw wouw have been theirs under the crushing grasp of the spanish it sor and the change must needs comee through and by reason of not merely american control but american owner ship when the whirlwind of flame 1 f swept monticolo Monti joe jolo fleet out of existe existence nW it simply obeyed the flat fiat of fate dewey was the agent through whom a regis tid t i d decree of providence was gian n expression it is quite useless to ex cx P pend end words or efforts in the endeavor to reverse the situation or make it flit i y front frent f rent from what it A is 4 V there must there can be no steps backward the islands have fallen ln to our hands and it would be it if it were not qt at such a time annoying c to have some one of those opp opposed ased to annexation point out by what means we dould could honorably and with perfect satisfaction all around let them go of r course we could recall our forces and ar courte let t the e spanish and natives resume s fighting for supremacy until some othet other nation stepped steppe fl in and took posses possession sift of the magnificent prize which honor ably and properly fell to us but wie we ac c will not do anything of that kind in s the first place this would be to nega ne w p tive one of the principles to uphold g which the war was waa begun and foug fought ht r f out freedom f from ra m spanish x ule rule the e natives could not control themselves oy or form a government upon which other nations could rely for twenty amr hours or deal with equitably for any f length of time and the powers have na I 1 business there except in a purely corn mercial sense they this them r selves no the responsibility of giving is good and stable government to the r philippines is upon uncle sams ailers and he could not if he be would ebl eb l cape it 1 |