| Show OUR FIL WARDS 0 DEMOCRATS NOT SINCERE IN PROMISING independence ft republican POLICY of educating the L 0 n g 0 O people toward self la Is the only safe sets one G 0 ve r a went recent incident cat at the arlda orld a fair U D C august 20 la lu no other country in the world bat but this could of the rational national on one a we see the speaker legislature I bitting sitting on the gross just out ride the office of the chief F telling funny stories to the secretary of viar and both of the men absolutely unconscious of I 1 the exquisite democracy of tl air attitude so long ae as such things ex as this can tale take place just outside the IN hite bite house the american people may well be assured that their lives a and nd their liberties are in good bands hands I 1 bor or eigners W who ho come here always fall fail to recognize the real democracy of the public men of america and frisen aly they EO go away with the impression ion that the american amerlean citizen worship worships only the dollar be cause they do not realize that the men they run up against on the aired street car cars or the people jostle on crowded corner corners are re the elected ruler rulers of the amer lean people mho ho step up one day and dou down n the next and who are re not blared injured either by their elevation or by their period of subsequent eubie quent retirement speaker cannon and secretary ecret ary taft joseph 0 cannon the speaker of the house of representatives is an exe excel el lent t type Y pe of the sturdy western agrical tural clase class lie ile hag has not a stuck op UP hair in big his bead and while he tie yet doci things which are out of place he la is never afraid to do things for feer fear gome pome one might accuse him of a lack of dig DRY it was perfectly natural in bin him when coming out of the N bite house the other day to plump himself down pa a graisy terrace for the express p pur ur pose of telling a series of funny stories to hie his companion ubo ho happened to be secretary taft the secretary of na arr w Is i a a big man in every sense of the word physically ae an well as mentally it was no easy job tor for him to get his pounds down on the X V hite bite house lawn and so he leaned against a convenient ron tree and the passersby passers by who ho saw two ordinary americans laughing over a good story ory had but little idea berh perhaps aps that these were two tuo of the great men of the country who had been In trusted by the people with vast power but who never theles bad lost none of their republican publican He simplicity secretary taft but a year ago was the governor of the philippine philippi ties he ile resigned that office to accept the position be he now DOW holds only because he believed that as secretary of N at he be could do more for tb the erM the little bro brown it 1 people l he had come to look upon as his own children and shot who in their turn bf eve taft Is 1 their best friend it wa was the secretary of aar ar who declined a position on the bench of the supreme court of the united states sates because he wished to finish his hi work for the people of the faraway pacific islands and he would w not abandon their interest interests even to accept an office to which he h hd had hon bon estly aspired every since the day when uben he rowed with the crew at yale and nd WM known as the strongest athlete in that great university it wa use perfectly natural therefore af at ter er the funny stories had been told and the last hearty laugh of the bg big cheated secretary of I 1 at had boated around the T IV it to alouse corner that the tb conversa versa lion ti should drift toward the subject of the L bould haul down the flag 1 I wa wish we T could make ule the campaign oil the philippine 06 asque said air 1 can non don the democrats in a their platform have bare pronounced for the ultimate independence pen dence ot of the filipino they have denounced us for endeavoring at the present time to 1 0 improve conditions 11 in ta the S IT ta island and they have la in effect declared d ft Z that it if they had the power they would haul down the american flag bag at the fertit opportunity I 1 think I 1 ithe amow the people pe of this country I 1 know they are in hearty sympathy with the policy of the republican party in regard to the I 1 V they know the work you did out there and they know the work your a are doing they have no notion of giving up the philippines I 1 at the present time but they intend t to a P ply american institutions amerl american can ideas ani ant american civilization to the people wa of the island island it Is not ot a ques tion of independence at all at the pres ent eat time but of civilization if we could make the campaign on this one lu of imperialism so called taking the aeo lican platform and the democratic plat lt form just as they stand 1011 roosevelt would defeat I 1 lancer arker by an extraordinary me m bority and the people bould steS repudiate uw il e policy of the democrats quite Is completely as they repudiated their financial policy of four and tight years ago this casual talk between the speak artt er and the secretary of war and their birka confidence in tl a kine rican people As well as a th air 9 od faith to ard the 1 Ill merely adds a point to a cis rions inci me the st loui louis Li imposition position the day after the adjournment ky of the democratic A COD potion in that city the paloe philippines inhibit Evie ryot e now that the most in K ting ant the S most instructive TS ex babit of the great a I 1 air in st louis Is if the reservation devoted ex cluel vely to the products and the people of the philippine jaia nl it is a 1 cu riou rious exhibit because it represents r with utmost fidelity not only 1118 the best but the worst feature features of life life 9 in 1 the th phil 11 islands It land M athi the u boundary of lt the reservation one ona way get a fairet alta sic c curate idea of the th possibilities of achievement by the educated 1 few among alno the filipinos pinos and lt at the same e time the student and nd cul casual visitor vi has h impress ed 1 I upon him the vastness of t tb a W ork n the islands and the depth of the ignorance and eara gery of many million millions of the people of the pelago in ih one n ble may be found the pill fat exhibits of the military and 11 educe lional methods to ethod of ote the SaSh which de lyd joyed the uplifting uplift io ot of te the philippines for generations giera Uon in another adoth department may be found the examination papers the drawings and the maps made by students in schools directed dire eted by S yankee school me aal in the 1 agrical l tl exhibit are specimens of the prod of the island 1 going ta show the up for ultimate of these new hoew 4 A sione ions of the united state staten while ila IS milling mining products the ile sections of law aa 1119 ber her the exhibit of f hemp io 10 11 all II rutt ill of manufacture anil and ar r tiling things tal a 0 hectel by the lie united stat baates to gov o 0 ra 1 are all dat displayed p t there h ere to show Q a z lea pie of t thie 1 s country r y that under p a ft per to direction and nd with sith faithful a a bal the people of the philippines can con la in tie tl 1 ions long years to come demount rate the capacity and bleir tl air finies to be conui bell ered among tie tle people of the earth ba s the tribe tribes 00 over IQ in nother another corner of the cesery tion one mar may bud find savage tribes brough to st louis as a type types of the tic rt 10 t still rom roam ever the islands arto he hn ol 01 never been properly classified who he make akk no return returns to teneus officer officers who v ire r ale never controlled by tl if e span nh mh govern ment and who are the people fiber e others over whom the ui Us cited st abill bl must extend the genius ot of in its own chit civill tb tation 11 it wa was the sunday after the by stern cal eel convention of the democratic pert the bad closed its labor the gate gates of 0 th this 0 big fair were barred to all but the eriv wo alleged official officials of it t e exposition in 10 the o 0 at Igor rote tillage village the lithe tithe active dot dog eating savages were amusing themselves ft SIT after their own fashion to in their weekly to li holiday there were no broads te to in 6 ta them they roamed around ita th reservation as a free from care aa as if in m ho their own forest the youn youngster gater er 9 cir ried fried on a ham shain battle and tho the older ide r Z im and women of the tribe awaked aal for laughed and enjoyed themselves Tea la in their 6 simple ravage savage fasli fashion lork on the steps of the headquarters sion house sat the shrewd food good natured ex i fill yankee soldier who had at secured cured the th concession and brought these savages to t I 1 mar st louis A where here they have bare since been the most interesting feature of a most abe interesting exposition he ile bad had just fia k dished reading a newspaper which con eon if jh a copy of the democratic pt diet Is form pledging that party to the ultimate independence of the filipino filipinos rod ta as he laid doon doun the newspaper glanc glane P ing from time to time over his hi browni 1 ba skinned finned I charges whom he had teamed leir neil to lore love and who looked up to him as I 1 father be ex expressed himself with nt suit G ural quaintness as to political situ atia abo democrat chanced their opinion opinions ast look at those people now they are tr 0 I 1 amiable good natured tractable my time ages but they are savages just the im it seems foolish to talk of independence fail tor for people who don t wear any ny more a bat clothes than they do d I 1 went 0 oat ut to th the islands in a regiment which had a time lot of democrats in it bat but there wet th mighty mighty few democrats came come back bt be canse ause we vie were in a place where bere we hail had it put up to ua us every day ho how w dinter VIA ous one it was to talk of independence among ya people who were wholly unfitted on fitted to BB no der stand the responsibility of politic political ax freedom what do you suppose thoe those people over there who are now enjoy ing themselves throwing stones stories at etch cl other and saving them the meTes from lam la limi jury with their shields would do it they ou u were ere turned loose on the streets of st louis and told to hustle bustle for Teal 1111 in fifteen minutes after they had been attacked by some street arabs ther there would be the biggest row you ever saw and all the statute laws from be here r to t i Us boulat woul in t leep keep those nice IM little bronn bron men from sticking a knit knife 1 into every white men min they taw saw I 1 itayem I 1 a democrat more time than most of oar our 1 regiment but I 1 am done with it now this talk of independence it if persisted to in will ill sooner or later provoke a t loode I 1 revo lostion tn in the Iti lands k promise of 0 vu in mediate modiste ludepen leoce leace is a serious fall thing the I 1 themselves will iu think they are entitled to liberty before we do and the result would be a differ to be ence of opinion which would mean blood afi I 1 for one don dont t propose to belong t to A I 1 any party which deliberately its it ft eyes to the great duty of the american Am people which Is to meet tl 0 a condition conditions SO aa as we find them now to educate the people aku 2 1 of the philippine philippines UP to a condition t of comparative civilization and then to t let the future be determined by the future |
