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Show ; oq j JONES BILL IS OPPOSED Withdrawal of U. S. From Philippines Denounced De-nounced in House Washington. Feb. r: "The withdrawal with-drawal of the United States from the Philippines would be an an of cow-ardlze cow-ardlze and folly and would result in conditions worse than now exlsl in Mexico," declared Representative Olmstead of Pennsylvania in a speech today against the Jones Philippines independent bill, which In; dtrlbed s ''remarkable and dangerous." jlfl "In a country where the well edu- i! cated oi "directing class' constitute jj lesg than two per cent of the entire; J population," he said, "and where fi wholesale illiteracy prevails among" the others it would be lmpotsible to 1 conduct a government of the people, by the people and for the people.' " Referring to the treat with Spain under which the Philippines were acquired, ac-quired, the speaker said Uiai without asking the permission of the other part to the treaty, "we are trying to slip out from undoer our obligations anl ordain that ihey hall hp assumed assum-ed and carried into effect bv a people peo-ple ho are not quallfk-d even to ; iframe a constitution for their own government The United States did not Ret a bad ; bargain In the Philippines, he declar-ed. declar-ed. "The Philippines are verv rich possessions. pos-sessions. If Germany or Japan or I any other foreign nation possessed them they would never let them go. ' Japan sirpports a population of 40,-1 OOO.OViO The Philippines could as easlh mpport lOO.oon.ooo people" Mr. Olmstead said he did not want to see the Philippines retained per- j roanently. but argued that the Jones bill would deprive the United States I immediately of practically all author-1 Ity without relieving It of responsibility. responsi-bility. rvn |