The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-05-13
AS TO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
SHALL WE HOLD AND GOVERN THIS FERTILE
AND PROSPEROUS GROUP?
Opinions Pro conFrs Authentic Details and
Figures Bearing the Producyeness, Population,
Trade Area Etc. of Our Acquisition.

WASHINGTON May 1Presiden Mckinley has sent orders M cable
said nthfu that gallant needs no order to hold the ISL
and He will hold them until ordered them military
civil abandon them The President
plates holding the Philippines the for
ne Is sad to be opposed to occupying them permanently
OF the United States would be contrary the whole policy all the
traditions of the United States in the past These islands he argues
according reports belong absolutely another hemisphere part
OF the Asac insu system and have no geographical relation what
to America the islands adjacent thereto dependent thereon
These views ne has presented claimed those who have urged
him the advaby Of the retention Of the group by
The feeling public however, in favor retaining per-
Senators bsT On Ds n
favor Of keeping the group They point the beauty and
the Orient the why the United States should keep
them part Of the Indemnity for the the Spain They
say that rich the islands and great the wealth they
poured into the lap Of pan they would be vastly prosperous
der the control Of the United States They insist that the Monroe
ne would in be involved BY retaining They
that would be hold the entire group would be
retain Manila other harbo coang station They that
would less angonism for the United States keep
They urge upon that the retention Of the Philippines
is in line with his well defined policy of annexng the Hawaiian Islands,
would help along the The listens as
his custom in all matters that before him. said to
he has been brought the permanent Of isl
and by the United States The favor retention great
and largely from his personal political friends well
from Of the opposition Senator'S and he may finally yield
The following from extended report
Manila publication made by the government
about the Philippine Islands and published here the
Philippine estimated at 900 square
miles, and their population at 100000 1ooooooo The
Luzon which the city Manila situated larger than New York
and Massachusetts, and has population 50oo00o and the island Of
Mndanao nearly large In addition the Philippine Islands the
Caroline Ladrone and soooo considered the urdc
ton Of this Mana consulate In all there about thousand
islands land and of about miles latitude
miles of longitude.
During the quarter ended December 81 1897 there exported to
the United States 1872 bales hemp against LOG bales to Great
the United States 544 per greater than all other
tries combined.
exports hemp ten years ended 1897 or 94
055 TONS Al per cent. to the United States.
During the years. of exports of 5S29O4 tons sugar.
than IS per to the United States.
As cigars tobacco copra woods hides Shells indigo Coffee
the United States imports about 81 100000 per month.
1t the above apparent that the
the United States and my best endeavo will be exerted says
Williams, "toward it's further extension"
The following of the general trade of the Philippine
nds taken from Review of the Worlds Commerce. 1896 81 shortly
to be published by the Bureau of Foreign Commerce
According British Foreign Office report No 1892
1897 the total imports into the islands in 1896 valued S1O63
250 exports The several of the
important countries Compiled from the official statics)