The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-08
GOVERNMENT FOR ISLANDS
DISCUSSED BY EMINENT MEN IN
PHILIPPINES.
Third Annual Meeting Of the A1neri-
can Academy of Political and So
cial Science-Speeches Made.

Philadelphia, April THE third an.
nual meeting Of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science began
in this city this afternoon, and will con-
| tinue tomorrow. Many distinguished
men from all over the country are in at
tendance, and the sessions promise to
be more than usually interesting. The
general topic for discussion is THE
] Foreign Policy Of the United States,
Commercial and Political This is di-
vided into two heads, one for each day,
| today's subject being The Government
of the Dependencies.
Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay OF
the University of Pennsylvania, vice
president of the organization. occupied
the chair. There were formal addresses
today by Theodore S. Woolsey, pro-
fessor of international law. Yale: Pro-
fessor A. w. Lawrence Lowell, Har-
ward university: w. Alleyne Ireland of
London, and Professor f. w. Huffcutt,
Cornell.
The discussion was taken part in by
several others.
Professor Lowell said, in part: THAT
the colonial administration ought to be
independent OF party politics in Amer
lea, that the governor general of the
Philippines ought not to be a party
hack who is not big enough for posi-
ton in the cabinet, needs no demon
stration. 1t is no less evident that t!:a
governor general ought to be advised
by council drawn from the wisest
members of the colonial service
THE employment of capable, infiuen-
tial natives by the government is a
matter of no little consequence. This
leads naturally to the suggestion, often
made of late, of governing through the
native chiefs, as Great Britain has
done in India and the Malay peninsula
That such a system is advanta Seous
wherever practiced, English experience
amply proves, and, indeed, 1t is now
maxim in India that every native state
ought to be preserved with scrupulous
care.
"A permanent civil service is essential
to Porto Rico, as well as in the Philip
pines, although it would have a some
what different character. In the Phil
ippines we must depend on efforts of
American officials While in Porto Rico
the service ought after the first years
TO be recruited almost exclusively from
the residents
IF the people of Porto Rico are to
acquire our political ideas and tradi-
tons, it must be chiefly by means of the
courts of law, for the relation of the
courts TO the administration officials
anu 10 the cltl2enS is the fundamental
point Of difference between the Anglo
Saxon system Of government and that
Of the Latin races. 1t is the force that
prevents the government from being
autocratic. that makes it a government
of laws and not of men,
Prof. Woolsey said: ITO accomplish
the desired ends in Cuba military oc-
cupation must be accompanied by the
gradual resumption of civil government
in all the municipalities, and by the
formation of an island legislature to
control internal affairs. subject to the
vote of the United States representa-
tives."
Mr.. Ireland expressed the opinion
that the inhabitants of the tropics will
never be capable of self-government in
the sense usually attached to that ex-
preston.
AT tonight's session, Professor Ed
mund j. James of Chicago university.
the president of the academy. was in
the chair. The report of the work of
the academy for the year was heard.
The only address of the evening was
by Hon Carl Schurz, on the subject.
'Militarism and Democracy
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Schurz's
address reception was held.