Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-22
McKinley's Acceptance
A FOrceful Document
Silver Issue Cannot be Swallowed by Imperialism Bug
bear=-PhiIippines Will Not be Turned Over to
MurdererS Of Americans==Trust Com
binatiOnS Should be Checked.


education and taken a full and COM
prehensive enumeration of the inhab,-
tants. Our military establishment has
been reduced from $4,000 soldiers t.
less than 5000. An election has been
ordered to be held on the 18th of Sep
TENDER under a fair election law al
ready tried In the municipal elections
20 choose members of constitutional
convention, and the convention by the
same order Is to assemble on the first
Monday Of November to frame con-
stitution upon which an Independent
government for the island will rest. III
this Is long step in the fulfllment
of our sacred guarantees to the people
OF Cuba.
We hold Porto Rico by the same title
as the Philippines. The treaty of peace
which coded us the one conveyed to Ia
the other. Congress has given to this
island a government In which the N.
habitants participate. elect their own
legislature. enact their own local laws.
provide their own system of taxation
and In these respects have the same
power and privileges enjoyed by other
territories belonging to the United
States and much larger measure II
self-government than was given to the
inhabitants of Louisiana under Jeffer-
son. A district court of the United
States for Porto Rico has been estah-
lished and local courts have been in
augurated, all of which are In opera
ton.
For the sake Of full and intelligent
understanding of the Philippine ques-
ton and to give to the public authentic
information OF the acts and aims OF
the administration, | present at some
length the events Of importance lead
ing up to the present situation. Tie
purposes of the executive are best re-
vealed and can best be judged by what
he has done and Is doing.
In order to facilitate the most hu-
name, pacific and effective extension
of authority throughout these ISLANDS
, appointed In January. 1899, COM
mission consisting Of the Hon. jacob
Gould Schurmann of New York, Adj
miral Dewey, U. s. N; Charles DENLY
, of Indiana, Professor Dean c. Worces-
ter of Michigan and Major General I'll
, well Il. Otis, U. S. A.
After the most thorough study Of
the peoples OF the archipelago the com
mission reported among other things:
r Their lack Of education and political
, experience, combined with their racial
, and llnguist diversities. disqualisy
them in spite of their mental gifts aud
, domestic virtues to undertake the gov
| erning of the archipelago at the pres
. ent time. Should our power by any ia
: tality be withdrawn, the commission
Y believes that the government Of the
Y Philippines would speedily lapse into
!. anarchy, which would excuse II 1t di1
e not necessitate the intervention O
other powers and the eventual division
s Of the islands among them. 0nl,
r through American occupation, there
I fore, is the idea OF free, self-govern
y ing and united Philippine common
wealth at all conceivable"
n In March. 1900. | appointed the fol
4 lowing civil commission: The Hon
s William Taft of Ohio, Professor Dear
y C. Worcester Of Michigan, Hon. Luke
n Wright OF Tennessee, Henry C. Ide o
Vermont and Hon. Bernard Moses o
@ California.
a This commission, under date of An
q gust 81, 1900. makes an interesting re
i port, from which quote the followin,
" extracts:
It Hostility against Americans origin
l. ally aroused by absurd falsehoods 4
l. INSCRIPTIONS leaders. The distribr
II ton of troops In 800 posts has by con
l. tact largely dlspelled hostilities an
. steadily improved the temper OF tn
l. people. Nearly all OF the prominen
l. generals and politicians of the insrr
l. rection except Aguinaldo have sine
It been captured or have surrendered an
Ie taken the oath OF allegiance"
= They report that there are "call
3, from all parts Of the island for pub
% lie schools, school supplies and Englis
teachers, greater than the commissio
l. can provide, until a comprehensive
s. school system is organized, Nigh
lie schools for teaching English to adult
y are being established in response I
W. pppuiui ANdNiNt
rs show aptitude In learning Englisi
lie Spanish Is spoken by small fractlo
= Of people and in few years the med
ID UNI OF communication IN the courts
D. public Offices and between tribes wi
be English. Creation Of central GOV
re eminent within eighteen months, III
N der which substantially all rights d.
~ scribed In the bill OF rights in the fec
Dr eral constitution are to be secured
ut the people Of the Philippines, wi
st bring to them contentment, prosperit,
ne education and political enlightel
Or ment."
Id This shows to my countrymen VIII
tn has been and what Is being done
IL bring the benefits Of liberty and goo
Is government to these wards of the nj
r ton.
And was II not our duty to prote
Da the lives and property Of those WI
e. came within our control by the 20
lie tunes of war? Could we have con
g, away at any time between May ], 1S9
to and the conclusion of peace without
IL stain upon our good name? Could y