The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-10

| duStrtal or financial policy of the gov
| eminent would be disastrous to their
highest interests. With prosperity at
home and an increasing foreign market
for American products, employment
should continue to wait upon labor and
! with the present gold standard the
| workingman is secured against pay
menta for his labor in a deprecated
| currency. For labor, short day is
better than a short dollar one will
tighten the burdens; the other lessons
/ the rewards of toll. The one will pro-
mote contentment and independence;
the other penury and want. The
wages of labor should be adequate to
| keep the home in comfort. educate the
children and, with thrift and economy,
lay something by for the days OF in
trinity and old age.
(Here civil service reform is endorsed
and appreciation expressed to the ma
TONS soldiers. sailors and marines,
and the progress made in Cuba and
Porto Rico is mentioned) The message
The president says:
The Philippine Question.
| For the sake of full and intelligent
understanding of the Philippine ques-
ton, and to give to the people authen-
tic information of the acts and aims Of
the administration. present at some
| length the events of importance leading
up to the present situation. The pur-
poses of the executive are best revealed
and can best be Judged by what he has
done and is doing. 1t will be seen that
the power of the government has been
used for the liberty, the peace and the
prosperity of the Philippine people, and
that force has been employed only
against force which stood in the way
of the realization Of these ends.
(Here the work of the Paris commits
sion is reviewed and the instructions
given at various times during the nego-
tiations are publshed). The message
continues:
On the 9th of February, 1899 the trea-
ty (of Paris) was ratified by the senate
of the United States, and the congress
Immediately appropriated $20,000000 to
carry out it's provisions. The ratifica
lions We're exchanged by the United
States and Spain on the 18th of April,
1899
AS early as April, 1892 the Philippine
commission, of which DIR. Schurman
was president, endeavored to bring
about peace In the islands by repeated
conferences with leading Tagalogs rep
resenting the so-ealed insurgent gov
eminent, to the end that some general
plan of government might be offered
them which they would accept. So
great was the satisfaction of the insur
gent commissioners with the form of
government proposed by the American
commissioners that the latter submit
ted the proposed scheme to me for APP
proval, and my action thereon is shown
by the cable message following:
May 5, 1899.
'Schurman, Manila:
Yours 4th received You are au-
thorized to propose that under the mill
itary power of the president, pending
action of congress, government of the
Philippine Islands shall consist of
governor general appointed by the pres
ident, cabinet appointed by the COVER
nor-general, a general advisory council
elected by the people; the qualifications
of electors to be carefully considered
and determined: and the governor-gen-
eral to have absolute Veto judiciary
strong and Independent principal
judges appointed by the president; the
cabinet and judges to be chosen from
natives or Americans, or both, having
regard to fitness. The president earn
estly desires the cessation Of bloodshed
and that the people of the Philippine
Islands at an early date shall have the
largest measure of local self-govern-
ment consistent with peace and good
order"
In the latter part of May another
group of representatives came from the
insuraert leader The whole matter
was fully discussed with them and
promise of acceptance seemed near at
hand. They assured our commissioners
they would return after consulting with |
their leader but they never did,
As a result of the views expressed by |
the first Tagalog representative favor
able to the plan of the commission it |
appears that he was by military orders
If the iusurgent leader, stripped of his
shoulder straps, dismissed from the
army and sentenced to twelve years
set forth in their own words;
"Deplorable as war is, the one in
which we are now engaged was I'M
avoidable by us We We're attacked by
4 bold adventurous and enthusiastic
army. No alternative was left to us ex-
,ept ignominous retreat.
ut is not to be conceived that any
American would have sanctioned the
surrender of Manila to the insurgents
Dur OBLIGATIONS to other nations and
% the friendly Filinipos and to our
selves and our flag demanded that force
should be met with force. Whatever the
'uture Of the Philippines may be, there
s no course open to us now except the
prosecution Of the war until the insur-
rents are reduced to submission. The
is of the opinion that there
las been no time since the destruction
If the Spanish squadron by Admiral l.
Dewey when it was possible to with
lraw our forces from the island either /
With honor to ourselves or with safety
o the inhabitants"
After the most thorough study of the
people Of the archipelago the commits
ion reported, among other things:
Their lack of education and political
experience, combined with their racial
nd linguistic diversities, disqualify
hem, in spite of their mental