The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-11
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER TUESDAY MORNING. SEPT H. 1900

railroad extension under negotiation will
| give access to large province rich in
! valuable minerals, a mile high, with
strictly temperate climate.
Railroad construction will give employ
ment to many and communication will
furnish market to vast stretches Of rich
agricultural lands
They report that there are "calls from
all parts of the island for public schools,
school supplies and English teachers,
greater than the Commission can provide
| until a comprehensive school system is
organized. Night schools for teaching
English to adults are being established
IN response to popular demand. Native
children show aptitude in learning Eng
! lish, Spanish is spoken by a small frac-
tion of people, and in a few years the
medium of communication in the courts,
! public offices and between different tribes
will be English; creation of central gov
eminent within eighteen months, under
which substantially all rights described in
the bill of rights in the Federal Constitu-
ton are to be secured to the people of
| the Philippines, will bring to them con-
| tentment, prosperity, education and polit-
/ ical enlightenment"
This shows to my countrymen what has
been and is being done to bring the bene-
fits of liberty and good government to
these wards of the nation. Every effort
has been directed to their peace and pros
perity, their advancement and we'll being,
not for our ACKNOWLEDGEMENT nor for pride
of might, not for trade or commerce, not
for exploitation, but for humanity and
civilization, and for the protection of the
! vast majority of the population who well
come our sovereignty against the design
| ing minority whose first demand after the
surrender of Manila by the Spanish army
was to enter the city that they might
loot it and destroy those not in sympathy
| with their selfish and treacherous designs
/ NO PROMISE OF INDEPENDENCE
Nobody who will avail himself of the
facts will longer hold that there was any
alliance between our soldiers and the
insurgents, or that any promise Of in
dependence was made to them. Long be-
fore their leader had reached Manila they
had resolved if the commander of the
American navy would give them arms
with which to fight the Spanish army
they would later turn upon us, which
they did murderously, and without the
| SDdUOW Oh CduSe VI JuSJlLCdllOE' AHGAe
may be those without the means of full
information who believe that we were
in alliance with the insurgents, and thai
we assured them that they should have
independence. To such let me repeat the
facts: On the Goth of May, 1898, Admira
/ Dewey was instructed by me TO make M
alliance with any party or faction in the
Philippines that would incur liability t.
maintain their cause in the future, and he
replied under date of June 6, 1885, Have
acted according to spirit of Department
instruction from beginning. and l have
entered into no alliance with the insur
gents or with any faction. This squadron
can reduce the defenses of Manila at an!
moment, but it is considered useless unit
the arrival of sufficient United States
forces to retain possession" In the re
port Of the first Philippine commission
submitted on November 2, 1899, Admira
Dewey, one of its members, said:
'No alliance Of any kind was entered
into with Aguinaldo nor was any promis
of independence made to him at an!
time"