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Show The editor of I oilier s Weekly has thoso ver) sensible nnd Intelligent words on tho 1'hllli pine outlook Ihe confusion of thought legardlug tho Philippines und the consequent difficult) dif-ficult) of tigreelng on a mote of governing thorn arises from the failure to recognize that the nchlpelago contains a multitude of Islands Inhabited In-habited by people speaking different languages, professing different religions and representing widely different grades of civlllzitlon A form of government gov-ernment adapted to the Christianized Tugals of Manila, nnd the more civilized parts of Luzon would not be suite 1 to tho Negritos Inhabiting the Interior uplands up-lands of that very Island or to the snvnges who occupy three-fourths of Mindanao. There nre Islands, also, In the ln) a group ont) tho edges of which wero ever controlled b) tho Spaniards, white but the semblance of suzerainty was exercised over Mohammedans on tho Mindanao coasts and In the Hutu archipelago The Territorial Ter-ritorial form of government requested b) the so-called rederul patt), which has lis headquarters nt Manila, might, as wo have said be safel) conceded If It were entrusted to the civilized parts of Luzon There nre also two or three Islands In the Vla)a group which ma) bo deemed qunllflel to oxeiclse a cer-tnln cer-tnln amount of autonom) There are other parts of the Philippines however which cannot reasonably expect to be Intrusted with an) large measure of self-government until they shall have been subjected tn civilizing Influences j for eevcral goneratlois" |