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Show uu DEMOCRATIC POLICY IN THE PHILIPPINES Bishop Brent has discovered the failure of the United States in our fifteen-year struggle with the Moros. Pei haps he may go a little farther and, when he learns the wise program pro-gram for dealing with these peopie, by Mabinl, the wise statesman of A.gulnaldo'8 government, he may conclude con-clude that, as In otber matters, the Filipinos can be loft to deal with their own problems, to tho relief of tho United States and the advantage of the problems 1 Dr. McDlll, a thirteen years' ris-Ident ris-Ident in the Philllpplnes. gave alone nt Mohonk Its thrilling note, recognized recog-nized as such even :n that temperate and polite debating society: "Signs of revolt among the Filipinos Filipi-nos if they existed, were but due to our failure to declare a policy in regard re-gard to independence. Is this country coun-try prepared to fight another country for the islands, or to take up arms against the Filipinos themselves should they revolt? Tbe peoples are wider apart than ever. One can drive a horse to water, but one can't make him drink." Ervlng Winslow in National Monthly. |