Show STILL SEEKING I INDEPENDENCE With a spirit of at independence I well developed the FilipInos con con- continue con continue con I I to demand freedom and yes yes- yesterday yes 1 yes yesterday they marched through the I streets of Manila anna proclaiming their desires fOI for full tull self determination Veterans of the Philippine revo revolution I lotion lution members of labor unIons and school children paraded In or- or order orden or-der or 1 den der to stir up enthusiasm for tor the j campaign to raise funds to carry carryon on the light fight for independence I It ft Is questionable whether the Filipinos would ad advance ance theIr ther 1 wel wel- fare fars b independence Rel Released from the tha protecting hand of the United States they thy would be help help- helpless helpless less It If Japan proceeded to annex them Today the Filipinos are immeasurably immeasurably better oft ott than when Spain held the Island Then the natIves had no part In government and their country countI made little or no progress in education or industry Business wag isas levied upon and the country drained to maintain a eye ss system I Item tem tern of ot autocracy With American Amerlean control the Fill Fill- Fill I pinos have been allowed every op- op opportunity opportunity op opportunity to develop de clop their Indi Individuality and work worl out the problems problems lems of self eminent The gov government gov- gov government of the United States does nothing nothing more than help to guIde the ship of state away from tram dan dan- dangerous dan waters where there are Jagged rocks I But with the dl eam of all na- na na nationalists I the natives native's are not con can content content tent to be less than independent I and they persist in their appeals and and insist on being made a na- na nation na nation tion untrammeled by an allegIance na other than that of self service I |