Show 4 OUR FILIPINO WARDS DEMOCRATS NOT SINCERE IN PROMISING independence republican policy of educating the bone long oppressed people toward self government ie Is the only safe one recent Itic incident ident at the world a 0 fair wash agton D C august 26 in no other country in the world but this could one see the speaker of the national le lc lint slut re 9 tt ng on the grass just out 8 d ibe e th office of the chef ch ef executive tel ug funny stories to the secretary of N ar and both of the men absolutely n dorsc or SL ous of the a te democracy of tier tl e r attride att t ide so long as such th as tl s can take place just outs de tie tl e A I 1 te house the amer can people in Y well be assured that the r lives and their limes are in good handa hands fore eners vl vi 0 tome come here always alays fa in I 1 0 o ze the real democracy of the public men of ainer aier ca and frequently they go away awa v th the impress on that chat the ekmer mer can c t zea zen ps only the dollar be caise cai se they do not real ze that the men I 1 they ruu run up aga ast on the street care cars or the people tl ti ey jostle on crowded cor i era e the elected rulers of the amer lean people who aho step up one day and cown tl e next nut and who are not injured e tl ti er by tl e r elevation or by their per period iod of subsequent ieti retirement rement si sl eaber eaker cannon and secretary taft joseph G cannon tl e speaker of the house of representatives is an excel lent type of the sturdy western vestern agrical tural class lass he ile has not a stuck up hair 1 II 11 i h g s head and m ahle h Is he never does ta tiegs ings are out of place he be Is never afraid to do th rigs for fear someone migi t accuse h in of a lack of d g n ty it t A as perfectly natural in him w hen lien corn com ng out of the n V hite house the oti er day to plump himself down on a grassy terrace e for the express pur pose of tell ng a ber u es of funny stories to I 1 s companion who happened to be secretary taft the secretary of war is a b g man in every sense of the word phys cally as well as mentally it was no easy job for him to get hia his pound pounds down on oil the white house lawn and so he leaned aga alst a convenient tree and the passers by who saw two ora ordinary inary americans laughing over a good story had but little idea perhaps that these were tv avio 0 of the great men of the country who had been in trusted by the people with vast power but who never had lost none of their republican simplicity secretary taft but a year ago was the governor of tie tl e philippines he rea res ened that office to accept the position he now holds only because he believed belie believe veo that as secretary of war he could do more for the filipinos the little brown people he had come to look upon as his own children and who in their turn believe taft is their best friend it was the secretary of war who declined a position on the bench of the supreme court of the united states because he wished to finish h s work for the people of the far away pacific islands and he would not abandon their interests even to accept an office to which he had hon lion estly aspired every since the day when he rowed with the crew at yale and was known as the strongest athlete in that great university it was perfectly natural therefore af ter the funny stones stories had been told and the last hearty laugh of the bg cheated secretary of war had floated around the white house corner that the conversa tion should drift toward the subject of the phil paines vi haul down the alag ibish I 1 wish we could make campaign on the philippine issue said gaid mr can non the democrats in the r platform have pronounced for the ultimate inde pen dence of the filip no they have denounced us for endeavoring at the present time to improve cond tiona in the island and they have in fit effect declared that if they had the power they would haul down the american flag at the first opportunity I 1 think I 1 know the peo pie of this country I 1 know they are in hearty sympathy with the policy of the republican party in regard to the phil paines they know the work you did out there and they know the work your successors are do ng they have no notion of giving up the phil paines at the present time but they intend to ap ply american institutions american ideas and american civil bation to the people of the island it is not a ques tion of independence at all at the pres ent time i but of civilization if we e could make the campa ga on th s one issue of imperial sm so soi called walled taking the rep kepul ab I 1 can platform and the democratic plat form just as they stand I 1 cosevelt oo sevelt would defeat parker by an extra ord nary ma jonty and the people would repudiate the reactionary policy of the democrats quite as completely as they repudiated their financial policy of four and eight years ago this casual talk tall between the speak er and the secretary of war and ther their firm confidence in the goo good d sense of the american people as well as in the ther good faith toward tl ti e fil ill pinol merely adds a po nt to a rt curious me ine dent at the st louis exposition the day after the adjournment of the Democrat ii con veri fention tion in that city the everyone kno ino vs to now that the most in terest na an I 1 the most instructive ex I 1 abit of the great world a fair in bt louis is in tl e reservation devoted ex elusively clu to the products and the people of the philippine islands it Is a cu rious exhibit because it represents with utmost fidel ty not only the best but the w A arst features of life in the ph I 1 ippie islands X W ith n the boundary of the reservation one may inay get a fairly ac ae curate idea df the possibilities of achievement by the educated few among the filipinos Filip mos and at the same time the student and casual visitor has impress ed upon h in the vastness va etness of the work to be performed in the islands and the depth of the ignorance und and savagery of many millions of the people of the archi pelago in one building may be found the piti pill eul ful exhibits of the military and ional methods of the spanish which delayed the uplifting of the phil paines for generations ene rations in another dep department artmen j may be found the examination papers the drawings and the maps made by filipino students in schools directed by yankee school ma ams in the agrical tural exhibit are specimens of the prod nets of the island gains to show the tam if ar f V f t I 1 ultimate ee S of the new p usley alone of the 0 filled states wills ali mining p product IJ a the HLL sit lie I 1 Is of imn ber her the thyi exhibit of ia in ail ill of and oti offer er things collected by the united beaus gov government are all displayed there to show the people 0 of this country that under proper d and with faithful assist assistance artee the people of the I 1 halil pine pines can in the long years to come demonstrate their capacity and ther the r fitness ti t be considered among the peoples of the earth the savage tribe tribes over in anoil er con cori er of the reserve tion on ma may Y i d savage tribes brought to st louis as tapes of the people who belll loam over the isan islan 14 who have never been properly pio perly class 1 ile hei I 1 who make no reburl s to census officers who were never controlled by the spanish govern ment and N mho ho are the I 1 leople eople at alove ove all kotlers oti ers baer whom lie un ud state states blust extend the genius of its own civilization it was anas the sunday after the basterl cal coa conventi yenti n of the democratic party had closed its labor the gates of the b g fair were mere baard to all but the privileged officials of the expos tion in the tho Igor rote milage the I 1 the active doe dog eat ng fig savages were amus eg ng themselves after the theroun r rown go u fash on in their weekly hoi hol day there were no crowds to interrupt them tl TI ey roamed around the th reservation as free from care as if la fix aber the r own forest the youngsters stere carried on a sham battle and the older men mels and women of the tribe smoked and laughed and enjoyed themselves in their t simple savage fashion on the steps of the headquarter headquarters house sat the shrewd good natured ex yankee solder sold er vi who ho had secured concession and brought these saracen sava to st lohie lolus rethey have since been the most interesting faatu feature of v interesting expos tion he ile had juet just fim dished reading a newspaper which contained a copy of the democratic platform pleda ng that party to the ultimate independence of the fil pines and as he laid down the newspaper glano ini from t me to time over hie his brown skinned charges whom he had learned to love and who A ho looked up to him aid a a father le 1 e express expressed cd himself with nat ural quaintness as to political situation situations democrat democrats chanced changed their opinion opinions look at those people now they are amiable frood natured tractable xav ages but they are savages just the am it seems fool sh all to lo talk of independence for people vi who ho don t wear any more clothes tl an they do I 1 went out to or the 4 islands in a regiment legi ment which had a whole lot of democrats in n it but there were mighty few democrats came back because we were in a place where we had it put up to ua us every day bow how dangerous it was to talk of independence amone amons people who were wholly unfitted to un der stand the ability of political freedom hat do you suppose those people ever over there who are now enjoying themselves throwing stones at each eack other and saving themselves from injury with the r shields would do if ft AA ere turned loose on the streets of st I 1 ou on s and told to hustle for vT in fifteen minutes after they had bad ben boon attacked by some street arab arabs there would be the biggest row you ever saw and all the statute laws from here to t washinton naton keep those nice little brown men from sticking a knifes knife into every white man they saw I 1 stayed a democrat more time than most ot of our en reg ment but I 1 am done with it now this talk of independence it if persisted in will sooner or later provoke a bloody revolution in the islands A promise of oft immediate independence is a beriou serio usi tl ing the rini pinos themselves vee arl think they are entitled to liberty before we do and the result would be a difference of opinion which would mean blood I 1 for one dont don t propose to belong to any party which deliberately shuts its it eyes to the great duty of the american people wl ich is to meet the conditioner condition si as we find them bow now to educate the people of the philippines up to a condition of comparative ive civilization and then top t let the future be determined by the future |