Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-24
More .Armistice" PrOpOsaI.,

II is cabed from Manila that Mabini. one
| of the shrewdest and ablest of the Tagai
| insGrrectionists. has appealed to certain
newspaper correspondents there to urge this
government to send commission to the
| Philippines to ascertain the wishes of the
Filipino people as to government, promising
| that the war will cease forever as soon as
| the United States and the Flipinos have
| come to a substantial understanding of
| each other. There is already commission
at work to this end and its operations
| should not be checked to permit any ex-
| perfmerts along the line of Mabini's sug-
| geStion This commission consists, first of
an army OF pacica ton; second, of a corps
| of administrators acting under military
rule, spreading the institution of civil
government as far as the arm of the United
States can reach: third, of a steadily in
creasing corps of instructors, carrying edu-
cation to the natives
1t would be idle to send a commission of
| investigators anew to Manila to listen to
| IL ng-winded propositions from the Tagal
| rebels and their attorneys, in order to de-
tcrmine the relationship which is to exist
between the natives and the United States
| in the years now at hand. Those relations
! are. in the main, clearly established al
the American government. protected from
the world at large and from each other
| taught the rudiments of citizenship, in
structed in the useful arts, and thus drawn
Into lines of responsibility and production
They are to be given the mode of govern
ment best suited to their present needs and
their prospective development. Whether re-
garded as citizens or subjects, wards or
children, their highest interests are to be
conserved.
Later Will come a necessity for far
reaching inquiries as to the proper method
OF charging the scope of the individuals
political rights. Events viii tell for infor-
| nation far more accurately than weeks of
commission work in the unpacified islands
Who can come forward now and speak for
these Tagals in arms? What guarantees
can he given that they would lay down
| their arms under certain conditions? What
| conditions should be offered beyond those
| already proposed? These questions show
| how futile is the iusurgent proposal to the
| United States to pause just as its work is
| about to he crowned with success, in order
| TO see If another way to a less definite
and desirable end may be found by the I'M
certain process of diplomacy
These suggestions are but echoes Of ear
| Ter days. when Aguinaldo continued to
| send ENJOYS of peace to the American
| lines, primed to observe conditions and to
| foment instruction among the susceptible
| natives. but lacking credentials to nego-
| tate an effective peace or the American
| terms OF captulation and submission TO
good government. Every demonstration Of
| public sentiment in this country, every vote
| in Congress. reinforces the assurance that
| the United States is not going to withdraw
| from the Philippines, and that it will con-
| t:nue TO use its armies for the pacification
| OF the archipelago until every island, every
| province. every city, has been brought 10
| feel the benefits of American rule admins
/ tered in peace and security.