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Show The Philippines And Civilization THAT was a most able speech made by Representative Repre-sentative Mann in opposition to the bill which proposes ultimate full Independence to the Phil- ippine islandB. He pictured In a striking manner what was to be when the brown and yellow races shall reach their full Industrial and military growth; when their hosts shall be trained for war, when their far greater hosts shall have cunning given their hands and brains, to compete for the world's trade. Unwittingly, perhapB, he made clear the sin and shame of the present war In Europe where the armies of the nations, their bravest and best, are engaged in a kind of fury, exterminating each other, when beyond them is the menace of the brown and yellow races, just beginning to comprehend their own strength and when the world's history proves that the conquests of the world move from east to west. Great Britain has seen proper to bring to France some tens of thousands of her India fighters. The people peo-ple of Marseilles gave them an ovation on their arrival. So the authorities of France have seen fit to bring some corps of her African fighters from Algeria Al-geria to take part in the war. We wonder if either France or Great Britain has considered the danger that lurks in those importations. .Some of them will live to return to their own people. Will they not carry back the news that they held their own against the bravest of the pale races with all their courage, training and devilish instruments instru-ments of destruction, and will they not add: 'Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?" But Mr. Mann placed particular emphasis on the future commercial competition which Is to be between our own country and the hordes of the Orient. He did not state, perhaps he did not know, that by our own acts, we have already as good as surrendered that trade which looked so bright and was taking on magnificent proportions five and twenty years ago. Those tolling millions in the Orient work for the same weight of sliver that they did twenty-five twenty-five years ago. Our country withdrew its recognition recog-nition of silver as a primary measure of values which caused It to shrink 60 per cent in value, measured In gold. Twenty-five years ago the Chinaman could buy a barrel of American flour for five taelsj, and he began to buy more and more of it. Now a barrel of that flour would cost him eight taels and he does not purchase it. By the same legislation our country practically" practi-cally" gave the Orient a premium of GO per cent on everything it had to sell us. This is not confined to Chinese trifles, but ex- tends to coal, pig iron, steel rails, wool, tea and 1 H a thousand other commodities. Steel rails at Han,- I H kou aro rnado at one-fifteenth the cost of. rails I H at Pittsburg, and can be delivered fn San Fran- !H Cisco bay at a price defying American compoti- I H tion. d M Our country passed this legislation upon the . H demand of the gold thieves In New York and H ,M |