Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-29

Spain? Here is point where the Filipinos
suspect and fear us. We must allay their
anxiety and suspicion by a splendid Philip
pine civil service. l believe we shall II
is absolutely necessary. But there will be
no harder task in connection with oul
government of the archipelago. l repeat
however, that the success of our admins
tration in the Philippines will depend upon
the men we send out to conduct 1T much
more than upon acts Of Congress or any
other circumstance"
What is the Object.
In conclusion Mr.. Schurman said: What
is the end of colonization? Why should we
extend our sovereignty over remote coun-
tries and alien peoples? 1 answer that the
only justfiable object of such expansion
is the establishment of good government in
the territory annexed, the elevation of It's
people in civilization, and the training of
them in progressive self-government with
a view to ultimate independence, whether
by partnership in or separation from the
sovereign state. AS the end for the moral
being is perfection and the end for the
economic society is wealth. SO the end for
the political community is independence. In
the divine education of the race people
can be permanently kept in a state of sub
lection to, or even dependence upon, an
other people. OF all coloniZing nations
England is the only one which has realized
this great principle, and 1t took success
full rebellion in her first empire to inn
great self-governing cOlonies-Canada and
Australia-are now ready for independence;
and, if they are not to realize it by sepa-
ration, equal place must be found for
them beside England, Scotland and Ireland
in some great plan of imperial federation.
And if India, instead of being as it Is, the
mere meeting place of innumerable races.
were a single national organism and began
to breathe a national life, England should
no longer desire to preserve her Indian en-
pire Indeed she could not if she would
for her native army would desert and the
unified people, animated by the sentiment
of nationality, would drive out the foreign
ers, with whom resistance could only mean
financial ruin and ultimate surrender.
In the Philippine Islands our own mis-
sion is to educate and elevate the FilipInos
and aid them in governing themselves We
shall not adopt the policy of scuttle, nor,
although American sovereignty must be us-
tablished even by force, shall we ever
dream of the policy of determination. Not
oppression, nor yet abandonment and de-
sertion; not, not these, but honest and fra
ternal cooperation with the F'ilipinos for
the establishment of just and stable gov
eminent in which the natives all have ever
increasing participation in proportion to the
development of their political capacities
the growth of their political experience
the progress of the masses in education and
civilization, and the evolution of the idea
and sentiment of nationality, a sentiment
ana idea which will be nourished and de-
Veloped by the habit of common action
the Improvement of the means of commu-
nlcat1on, the freer intermingling f the
tribes and races, and hearty native Coop
GRAFTON with the Americans, whose best
political traditions are but the realization
OF the dearest ideals of the Filipino peo-
pies"