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Show Educating Filipinos ruder the above heading the Dayton Day-ton Join mil of Ohio has In part tho following to say: "It. A. McClrath. who is In business In Munllla. asserts that the American schools established throughout (ho Islands havo been responsible re-sponsible for educating the Filipino to u high degieo, but he does not think they aro ns yet fitted ror self government. When Mr. McGrnth went to Manilla In '!18. ho nponed a n store selling, among other things, Bhoes. It was flvo years heforo he sold tho rirst pair of shoes, but now shoes aro coming Into general use. nnd women, especially, are fond or them, having n penchant for high ' heels. Thus It can be seen that th natives aio making progtess. We have no quarrel with Mr. M. Orath's political opinion, for n mniii has a tight to that; but we cannot' help feeling Hint, In his eagerness to sells shoes, ho sooius to hnvo forgotten for-gotten that In 1916 Congress gavo the Filipinos an autonomous government govern-ment with tho pvomlso of Independence, Independ-ence, nnd that today tho Philippine problem is no longer a question of our fitness for self government, but rather, whether self government, practiced successfully for several yen is. shall be translated Into Independence. Inde-pendence. The statement (hat it took flvo years before the first pair of shoes weie sold conjures up in our mind tno pathetic picture, of civilized man who, out or the goodness of his heart, and In response to a noble feeling or Chrlation charity, and brothei ly love, braves the peills or (ho unknown seas, and goes out among am-ong tho natives of tho Philippines, and in Manilla opens a shoe storo to show tho benighted Inhabitants how to protect their pedal extremities from the sizzling heat of tho tropical tropi-cal sun. And after twenty years of earnest missionary work, ho comes back to America, a millionaire, and bus nothing to say about tho Fill-plnos Fill-plnos except that they are not fit for self government, though they havo nt last learned to wear shoes, thanks to tho heroic efforts of North Americans. r America did It all oven taught the natives how to wear shoos for tho first time! Not a kind word Is said about tho social progress during the paternal rule of Spain, when under un-der her Influence, tho Philippines assumed as-sumed tho distinction of bolng tho only Christian nation In tlio Oilcnt. The blunders of 1808 nro being repeated re-peated today. The ruthless dlsio-gaid dlsio-gaid of Filipino feeling Is apparent In many at tides wiltten, nnd twenty-two years of association havo not greatly enhanced America's knowledge knowl-edge or the Filipinos, nor developed that feeling which you would expect from u friendly assoclnte. Tlio Filipinos Fili-pinos ,to tho majority of Americans, nio today, ns they havo been In the past, the same savago, Ignorant and lllfteinte, and nt times head-hunting and naked hordes that they havo been pictured to be by many sensational sensa-tional wrltors, Hut times are changing nnd In spite or what wo Ilka to think as un-Irtciitlonnl un-Irtciitlonnl Insults, Americans may yet av.-.ke to tho Tact that their best friend j "ovir there" aro those whom tj'.-y pcn.lBt In calling "savages," and ::.o !c3s "head huntcm." si i |