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Show FiLIFii'iOS IV. fiT IftDEFEKDEKGE Resident Commie;Uncr of Island Sayt Freedom Waa Promised and People Are Ready for Same. , Washington. In an Interview M.in uel L. Qucson, one of tho resident ( ommlssloners of the Philippines, has made a boh! demand for Philippine Independence, declaring It Is h'gli time the I'nited States made good Its promise of thirteen years ago that this people would be held as wards only until they w ere fit for self government. govern-ment. "As the representative of the R, ''(), U00 people of the Philippine Islands, I ltt:i directed to say that they seek from you that which w.ll cost nothing noth-ing to concede, and something that will be more to them than wealth and life their liberty." Commissioner ljucBon, whose status In Washington is that of dele gate In congress from the territories, ('aims to be the only real representative representa-tive of the Filipino peonle, ulthough he has a colleague bete. Commissioner Commis-sioner Penito Ix-garda. Queson was chosen by the Filipino assembly, being be-ing the unanimous choice of all par ties. Legarda Is the representative of t tie Philippine commission and therefore, It Is claimed, is not In sympathy with the demands of the Filipinos for Immediate independence. |