Show philippine PHILIPPIN PROBLEM M OUR DUTY IS PLAIN AND IT WILL BE PERFORMER PERFORMED united states nill properly educate the th native natives of the archipelago for self government A res that will not be B shirked 4 the problem of the philippines is bow most tho thoroughly roughly and quickly to teach the th people of the gre great at archipelago ot of the tb pacific self government uch such self SOT gov first la in the crumett as a enjoy territories tod and then in the states of the union the essayists and agitators who are weeping and wailin walling over our new dew east era ern possessions are the representatives ot at that licit self d trust which weaken weakens bals and arid nations IN hat bet are we swats going to do with the I 1 I 1 shrieks the sentimentalist ot of the arm chair and slippers nae are going to do as we wa would old be done by answers the sturdy a P irit ot of american manhood but the philippines should be b independent moan moans a voice choked with emotion we are teaching them belt goern n eat la Is tit tl e rejoinder the american people are not quit nor or are they subject to the emotional distress and anaemic apprehend ions ot of hysterical or senile persona persons AN e have a plain duty before us in the phil 11 1 pines MW NOW to do our wort work there to the beat best of oar our present ability Is our task AN e can trust the future to the sons and daughters daugh tera ot of the american ua na lion NN lint it the revolutionary athers fathers had stopped in the mi all of their war for independence to debate whether their de BOMi danta would worthily acquit them selves in the new I 1 berty to be granted them 1 V hat it if the liberators of millions of slaves had stayed their god directed hands to listen and reply to arguments argument ag as to the fitness of 0 the colored people for lives as human individuals the great forces which rute rule the lint verse work by human means the in st are imperfect hot but guided by creat treat ideals man has accomplished won ders for his big race the spanish war threw upon the great at american republic 11 ml a unexpected even unwelcome burden of ty jk vast country cw po P o pled I 1 ke our on oan by inhabitants ranging from high civilization to naked savagery came come into our possession po scion and with it came immense te il ty to chirk shirk hat that sib lily ty Is un amer pa lean ihl 11 e bare te taken lt it uton upon us 8 1 a nd I we hal shall carry it as its bravely and hopefully as it Is our 0 custom to larty carry the trots t faid laid n upon us as a nation to teach alf government there a as we understand ft it in the lulled states in 1 our 1 task 1 N ft e are building e and of K ening free fr public p il schools teaching ahns tt sanitary all lt set once and the he necessary rilles lies for or public h health horling ing the way ay to complete religious freedom and toleration fighting la 11 savage tribes 18 sn in remote districts ts to protect pr tile lives at and property P of all a wo who five i within the thodera tb borders odera of our national atol authority anth auth onty t such e is our work to toay today day upon the ancient growth of spanish in the towns and cities we are eng ratting the new life hf of american im ism does anyone doubt the ultimate effects acts of such a process after what has ha been done upon our own continent within the list hundred years the dealing with the natives of toe the lot ends la is a serious and pulling puzzling affair but ho Is better t t fitted alt than our nation on nour dished h an it is by great ideals for such nm a dvork the world has coma to see that the savage Is but man in his child hood as that like a child he must be pro taught home with and led into the ss larger life of 01 maturity in amerl can life are the elements for the saving and civilization i I 1 of the most remote tribes of arr the pacific wants let as trust our selves and give ear no longer to the su guries and omens of 0 those bilto have faith ia neither i in god nor man but who continual lir cry wt out upon all that Is done or 0 r wished or hoped for by the workers work of georld orld the he world one thing at a time and every day for its ll 11 work tl Is a good f rule n in 1 government ernat ern mt as it Is in h the life of an individual the thing to do aith the philippines Is to help them forward in the world to in spire guide and govern them in accord ance with american ideals 3 and traditions As to the future we can trust future americans and future filipino amed es no this Is the full extent of our imperialism there |