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has q place IN the argument, only De
cause it is not inconsistent with the
task the United States has undertaken
for with nation as with an indi-
ividual, there can be no truly advant-
ageous policy unless it stands in right
fulness.
He was followed by Mr. SncerbeauX
who said that the Fiipinos were capa-
BILE Of self government, quoting Dean
Worcester, of the commission, 10 the
effect that the many tribes in the is
/ lands may be considered as a single
class, and he quoted German authori-
ties to that effect.
He said that the negative advo-
Gates temporary occupations of the is
lands only, in contrast to the perma-
nent retention. Permanent retention
will involve the defenders in perplex-
ing difficulties, inasmuch as the consti-
tuition of the United States may and
probably Will apply to the islands.
Yales debaters, said he, would try to
show that the permanent retention is
undesirable for three good and sufficient
reasons. Mr.. SincerbeauX elaborated
this by showing that the reasons were,
first, because retention is absolutely
necessary; second, because retention is
eXpedient; and thirdly because it is
unjustfiable. In elucidation of this
stand he said that retention is UNI
necessary because the people deserve
to be free, and because they are capa-
bic of self-government, and, moreover,
because the holding of a subject people
n fro will ut
ure from our ideal of liberty, and will
be a departure from a past national
policy which has made the United
States as a country, a great power.
Mr.. Bruce followed and proved most
effective, for he has the persuasive elo-
quence of his race and was greeted with
tremendous applause, In his speech he
quoted from Professors Woolsey and
Wheeler, of Yale, with great effect
Mr.. Bruce said in part:
Nov, waving questionse of educa-
ton, of political experience, of political
tradition, of diversity of language, of
the deadly hostility between the various
social groups, l ask in all fairness, can
men with such characteristics operate
national republican government I?
Lacking all capacity for all persistent
effort, can they with patience ovecome
the tremendous difficulties which try to
the utmost the capacity of the Anglo
Saxon? With such an aversion to So
cial order that they can be ruled only
by coercion, can they in peace submit
to the rule Of a small maiority-a stu
alton constantly occurring in popular
government? Lacking all the idea of
extensive organization, can they or
game and maintain a great and com
pick civil administrator? Lacking
foresight, can they anticipate the dam
gers of unsound finance, of ill-advised
taxation? Lacking the moral conscious
ness, can they be expected to respect
property rights, and not to tyrannize
over small minorities? Greatly do L
regret that to each one of these ques-
lions the answer Of reason Is no.
In the vast circle Of tropics, no race
has been able to solve the problem of
government since the world be-
gan. Those moral qualities, initiative
foresight, public spirit, which consti-
tute the groundwork of popular gov
eminent, the forces Of the tropical en-
Vironment suppress. 4 Popular govern
ment Is the supreme difficulty of mans
political evolution 1T is lesson which
the experience of England in Egypt and
in England shows cannot be taught.
our Filipino pupils are men of the
Malay race-men who, none claims,
rise above the dead level of their race.
This race, whether in ancient times or
IN modern times, whether in the vast
continent of Asia or in the isles of the
sea, whether in the temperate zone or
IN the torrid zone, have in no case adj
vanced farther on the path of their no.
lltical evolution than the tribal stage.
In closing, Mr.. Bruce said: Unless
the gentleman from New Haven can
change the geographical destiny of the
archipelago, unless they
change the forces Of the tropical en-
unless they can change a
race character which is the outgrowth
IF centuries: unless, in short. they can
change the Interchangeable, they must
1oncede that the present incapacity of
The various peoples of the islands for
4 popular government is a permanent
'act."
Mason Trowbridge 1902. of Chicago.
who followed for Yale, said that Bruce's
argument was not sound, for the Fill
oino government was not to be a repub-
lean form, but might be whatever form
best suited to them, which the future
)nly would show. He quoted from Pro-
lessor Hart, Of Harvard quite effec-
lively.
He said that permanent retention of
he Philippines is undesirable, not only
because it Is unnecessary as a national
BURDEN but because it is unexpedent
economically and strategi-
ally.
To retain the islands would be posi-
lie in two ways first, to retain them
Is territory, or territories, or as a de-
tendency. But as a territory is DO
entail state the dependency is the only
PRACTICAL alternative. A dependency is
ineXpedient, inasmuch as we
hould probably have too little success
n ruling it to warrant the experiment
specially in view of England's merely
PARTIAL success in India. In that
ountry the conditions seemed at the
tart to be even more favorable. Our
wn experience with the less trouble
ONE Alaskans and with the Indians
,ears this out in our own history. Re
ention would involve the United States
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