| Show GOOD PLACE FOR YOUNG MEN congressman chairman of the house committee on military affairs after an extended stay in the philippines has reached san francisco he has made a careful study of military conditions and the resources of the islands and what he says of the present and the future of our new possessions Is ei worthy of careful consideration era tion interviewed in san francisco he bays it I 1 was a young man I 1 dont know where I 1 would rather go than to the philippines for a man of trains and industry the islands open a vast prospect in most every line of business tor one who has tho grit to gothere go there and stick to it the mineral agricultural and timber resources of these islands constitute a field tor commercial enter prise that is practically unlimited of course the present conditions of brigandage make it exceedingly unsafe tor people to settle in the islands away from the protection of the military posts but the people or the great majority nine out of ten of them desire peace and safety and are doing all they can to help the troops this end of course it Is impossible to make an anglo saxon out of an oriental therefore the will probably never be an american citizen in the broad sense that Is understood by all that term conveys to the man born tn the united states of white parents but as soon as he gets sufficient education and becomes a little more impregnated with our ideas and loses some of the ideas acquired by a three hundred years association with ahe spaniard the fillipino Fill pino will be a citizen in spirit patriotism industry and education and will be worthy of participating to the fullest extent in all the benefits of this government of rouyse we will have to govern them with firmness as well as with kindness and I 1 think that forty thousand troops Is about the right number to keep there tor some years to come |
