Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-01-27 | Page 5 | Schurman Explains His Speech

miAN EXPLAINS HIS SPEECH ithaca N Y jan 27 president schurman yesterday enado a statement explanatory of hia recent boston in which ho advocated tho eventual independence of the people of tho philippines tho substance of tho speech was if the of luzon and biscaya viscaya Vis caya wanted independence and showed themselves capable of assuming it this country would eventually biye it to president schurman bald yesterday eliat ho believed atie policy ho advocated would inore than anything elic noto the welfare of the loosevelt Koo sevelt he eaid had declared in ins message to congress that wa were to do for the filipinos Filip inoa far more than any other nation had done for a tropical people and that we to fit them bior belf after tho planner of the really free facea lie bald he abood with president roosevelt it hia policy and was against that advocated by wheaton which would mean colonial servitude like that and india i