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Show The Philippines. We find in a current magazine that ever since the appointment of ex-Governor General Wright of the Philippines to be the American ambassador to the Tokio government, it has been persistently ' rumored in the islands that he has been empow- ered by Washington to treat with the Japanese ' authorities fdr the disposal of the Philippines. Then the article goes on and copies from several i Japanese papers the feeling in Japan on the subject, sub-ject, the general tenor of which is that it would be a good thing, that the Islands under the United J States have not been a success, and more of the same. , We do not think that any ambassador of tho United States is talking in any foreign country about disposing of a portion of the soil of the United States. We do not think that the experiment experi-ment in the Philippines has been a failure. We know the great islands have been quieted. Wo know school houses are being extended over all of them and that the children, on the Fourth of July, sing American patriotic songs with great enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The Japanese are an insinuating race. Japan wants the Philippines. Before the war with ltus-blu ltus-blu a Japanese map was gotten out on which tho Philippines were Included in the archipelago of Japan. We do not think Japan wants any trouble with the United States at least not now but her professions pro-fessions of friendship are empty professions; she thinks of nothing but Japan, and twenty-five years from now, when she has recuperated from tho groat war, when her navy is complete, if things do or do not go just as she wants them in China, she may take it into her head that tho Philippines would be a good asset for the empire, even at the expense of a war with the United States. By that time we suspect that the talk about giving up the Philippines will have ceased in this country; coun-try; that the baby statesmanship which treats the Philippines as part of our country in fact, but not in trade, will have passed away, and that about the most productive part of the possessions of the United States will be those same Islands, and that they will not bo' for sale to Japan or to any other power. |