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Show i HOME RULE PROMISED. S What Unci Kara l'romlin to th IVeople It of the l'hlllpplnee. I Maulla, Jan. 7. MaJ.-Gcn. Oils, mil ftary rommandcr of tho United States F, forces In the Philippines, has Issued a 1 proclamation to tho Filipinos, based i , 4 j - f, upon Instructions recolvcd by cable i from President McKlnlcy. Tho pro I olamatton appeared In all tho papers , simultaneously. Goneral Otis, after reciting briefly President McKluley's Instructions, ex-, ex-, pressed tho opinion that it Is tho In- , tcntlon of tho American government, whllo directing affairs generally to ap-point ap-point representative men, forming tho controlling element, to civil positions. IIo also exppessed himself as convinced ; that the United States government in tends to seek tho establishment lu tho Island of a most liberal government, in which tho pcoplo will bo as fully u represented as tho maintenance of law B and order will permit, susceptible of ffi development, on lines of Increased rep s' rcsentatlon and tho Increased powers, D' into a government as freo and Indo- U pendent as Is enjoyed by the most H favored provinces In the world. To I' this end, ho Invites the full confidence 8 and co-operation of the Filipinos. |