Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-08
NOW We KNOW
HOW TO DO IT.
Harvard and Yale Professors Talk
on Our Foreign Policy.
GIVE US SOME POINTERS
ON the Proper Mode OF Procedure,
aud ~ the Thing I.n't Done Prop
eriy Now-veii'

Philadelphia, April THE third an
nuai meeting ~ the American Academy
Of Political and Social Science began In
this city this afternoon and viii con-
iinuc tomorrow. Many DISTINGUISHED
men from all over the country are In
attendance, and the sesaions promise TO
be- more than usually interesting.
The general topic for discussion IL
''Th" Foreign Policy of the United
States. Commercial and Political TINS
iH divided into two heads. one for each
day, today's subjcc, being The Gov
eminent Of the Dependencies" Prof.
Samuel Mccunc Lindsay Of the univcr-
Wy Of Pennsylvania. vice president Of
the organization. occupied the chair.
fherc were formal nddrcaHcs today by
Theodore =. wooiscy. professor OF In
tcrnatlonal law. YALE Prof Lawrence
Lowell. Harvard uniycrrltyi W. Al
lcync ireland Of London and Prof y.
W. Huncutt. Cornell. The discussion
was taken up by several others.
Prof. Lowell said. In parts That the
colonial administration ought 10 be In
dependent Of party politics Ia America;
that the governor general u the Phil
ippinca ought not to BE- a party hack
who ia not big enough for position In
the cabinet, needs no demonstration. II
h no less evident that the governor
| general ought to be advised BY T. coun.
cil drawn from the wiHcat members OF
the colonial service.
The employment Of capable, influcn-
| tlnl natives By the government IN
matter Of no little consequence. THIS
leads naturally 20 the suggestion. often
| mhue u late, ~ governing through the
native chiefa.aa Drcat Britain has done
In India and the Malay peninsula. That
Huen system IN advantageous wher-
| ever practlccd, English experience ans
/ Wy proves, and. indeed II " now
I'm IN India that every native state
ought 10 be preserved With Actupulous
care.
- permanent civil service Ia eaacn>
tiai to Porto Rico aH we'll ~ In the
Philippines although II would have a
somewhat different character. In the
philippines We must depend M the
main on American officials. Will. In
Porto illcO the service ought, after the
iirrt year, To be recruited almost cx-
cluaively from the residents.
III the people Of Porto Rico are 10
acquire our political ideas and tradi.
tiona, u must be chiefly by means 90
tho courts of law. for the relation OF
the courts TO the administrative oiil-
cinln and TO the citizens II the fundt-
mental point Of difference between the
AnRlo.HaNon system Of government ana
that ~ the Latin races, II Ia the force
that prvNvatn the government from b..
ina autocratic. that makes II a govern
mont of laws aud not u mcn.'
Prof. WOolacy said 60 accomplish the
desired ends IN cuba military oceupa-
ton must be accompanied By the
gradual resumption ~ civil government
IN all the municipalities, aud By the
formation % an island legislature 10
control Internal affairs. subject 20 the
veto Of the United States rcprcHen,a-
tiVrH.
lie continued. whether the issue OF
the protcctoRtc IL Independence OF, a.
many believe, annexation, the process
~ education, uf parincation N the aamo,
II consists In a word, In granting AA
much control over Internal Affairs ~
the Inhabitants are able 70 bear. And
W. must ~ regulate their duties and
revenue laws and commercial rights ~
TO give them a prosperous life, even at
our own cost. that II. " We Wish the
experiment TO turn out we'll Thus We
should open the door 10 foreign trade on
as favorable terms an to our own.
TN the cases Of Porto liico and tho
Philippines, we arr under constitution
al limitations, Here there II no pre-
sumption Of future Independence. They
are our Hpoila Of war To govern as
spain did or 10 govern ns Great Britain
would. ~ far a. the Constitution al
lows. Anything other than permanent
possession. however desirable. win be-
most dinicnlt And my reasons are
that future surrender In sure TO be con.
atrucd aH a confession OF failure and
would hurt the national pride. We need
not have assumed the burden, but, hay.
ing done 10, II must bc patiently and
Loyalty borne,
mo government can succeed therc
which IN not based on force. We need
IN place % benevolent despot IN every
district In the archipelago. Therefore.
the military government IN the only
one possible And this IN dependent
upon the inaction OF CongrcAs. Its COM
stituiional basis lies In the fact that
the United States, as sovereign. n re-
aponaihlc for the maintenance OF JUS
ticc and order for the defense OF It's
territory, for the protection ~ It's sub
jects rights Pending action by Com
greHa. this duty doyolves upon the
President. the executive head Of the
nation and commander-ln-chlo OF both
army and navy"
Mr.. ireland expressed the opinion
that the Inhabitants viii never be capa-
BILE OF self government In the sense uAu-
ally attached 10 that expression.