Iron County register., 1899-11-09

the government of the Philippines would
| speedily lapse into anarchy, which would
tervention of other powers, and the event.
ual division of the islands among them.
Only through American occupation,
therefore, is the idea of free, self-goy-
erning and united Philippine common
wealth at all conceivable. And the indis-
pensable need from the Filipino point of
view of maintaining American sovereign
ty over the archipelago is recognized by
all intelligent F'ilipinos, and even by those
insurgents who desire American pro-
tectorate. The latter, it is true, would
| take the revenues and leave us the re-
nize the indutiable fact that the Filipinos
can not stand alone Thus the welfare oe
national honor in forbidding our abandon
ment of the archipelago. We can not, from
any point of view, escape the responsible
ties of government which our sovereignty
entails, and the commission is strongly per-
suaded that the performance of our ma
tional duty will prove the greatest bless
ia5nds.'' Ian s. 'N' peopi' " '-ie A-''f' pine -
one of the closing chapters of the re-
port is devoted to a tribute to 'our sol
diers and sailors in the war" The COM
mission says that the presence of Admiral
it uniting to dwell on his personal
achiements, but he joins in the eulogy CT
his comrades. The commission witnessed
some of the deeds of our soldiers, and de-
clare that all skill, courage and patient
endurance can do has been done in the
Dissertation of Churches.
They dismissed the reports of the des-
ecrating of churches, the numbering OF
prisoners. and the committing of unmen-
express the belief that a war was never
more humanely conducted, saying:
IF churches were occupied, it was only
as a military. necessity, and frequently
after their use as forts by the insurgents
had made it necessary to train our ar
whenever opportunity offered. often only
to be set at liberty after being disarmed
and fed, Up to the time of our departure,
although numerous spies had been cap
tured, not a single Filipino had been exc
cuted. Such wrongs as were casually com.
mitted against the natives were likely to
be broughtfto our attention, and in every
case that We Investigated We found a
thority to administer prompt Justice
the value of the Islands, their. richness in
mineral wealth. and their commanding
geographical position. They state that this
of the great centers of the east. Manila
is already cone@ed by new steamship
lines with Australia, India and Japan, and
she will become the natural terminus OF
many other lines when ship canal con-
meets the Atlantic with the Pacific. It car
not be doubted that commerce will great
Iy increase, and the United States will OBJ
tain a large share of this. Manila, with
the immunity which is has thus far en-
bonic plague, should become distributing
center for China, Siam, The Straits Settle
mentS, Tonquin AMMAN and Australia
The report concludes:
''Our control means to the inhabitants
of the Philippines internal pelnee and or
der, a guarantee against foreign aggres-
sion and against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
their country, commercial and Industrial
prosperity, and as large a share of the
affairs of government as they shall prove
fit to take. When peace and prosperity
shall have been established throughout
the archipelago, when education shall have
become general, then, in the language OF
a leading Filipino his people will, under
our guidance, become more American
than the Americans themselves"
The report is signed by ]. G. Schurman
George Dewey, Charles DENLY, Dean c
Worcester.