The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-29
Western Unity on the Tariff
Question Is Missing.
CRITICIZING Mr.. KASSON
Chicago Speech on Reciprocity
Frowned Upon East.
LIKE THE OLD MAN IN MAINE
Fasteners In Favor OF the Principle
but "Agin Its Enforce
ment."

From The Journal Bureau. Room 4S, Post
Building, Washington
Washington, Oct 29.-There has been
a good deal of unfavorable criticism in
the east of the reciprocity address deliv-
cred recently by Commissioner Kasson in
Chicago. The east does not care much for
reciprocity when practically applied. For
the abstract principle 1t processes great
respect but it is noticed that whenever
anybody undertakes to make practical
application Of the principle there is op-
position.
In this connection it is also noticed that
while the east is pretty solidly lined up
against any tariff revision. Of the Bah
cock or any other variety, the west where
lower tariffs are presumably in public ia
vor. is pretty well divided on the question.
Every eastern member of congress or the
senate who has been interviewed during
the past six months has spoken strongly
against tariff tinkering of any sort. Only
a few of the western members who have
spoken have declared themselves as be-
ing in favor Of changes. Senator Hans
brough's article in the Devils Lake Inter
Ocean is not the only expression of SIM
liar character from republican members
from the west. Members in Kansas, Wis
consin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, in
nearly every one of the states west OF
the Alleghenies, in fact, have said that
they thought the time was not ripe for
tariff revision, and when asked about reel
proclty they have answered evasively.
1t is very evident that the western peo-
pie as a whole, who are supposed to favor
the Babcock principle in one form or an
other, have much work to do before they
can count on the support of the men in
congress who will vote for them on this
question. If the west were a unit, con-
speaking, for revision and for
these measures would surely
carry; but when a house is divided against
itself, what can be hoped for?
TEACHERS In speaking OF the school
teachers letters which
IN are now becoming impor-
tant contributions to
PHILIPPINES American knowledge of
the Philippines, General
this country from command there, said
to YOUR correspondent to-day:
The teachers are evidently little home |
sick so violent is the change from condt- |
tions that they knew kcre to those that they
meet in the Philippine islands 1t was the
same way with the soldiers for some time. !
remember an English newspaper which said, !
in Encouragement of our work there: "A
homesick nation is never a colonizing ma
rrtI tain dool OfI
truth, as history has often shown. But the
of our soldiers was only tenn ,
porary, and that will be the case with the
school teachers, feel sure.
The recent troubles in Samar are sporadic |
and signify nothing as to general condi- |
tions and prospects. Two centers of insurrec
tion still exist, one in Luzon, where Malvar
Is operating, ard the other in Samar, under
Lukban. | do not believe that either repre-
sents a serious situation. although we are
liable to have these little outbreaks from
time to time l think the army in the archi- |
pelago is about the right size, and while
believe conditions are going to continue to
improve all the time, | would not like to
make any prediction as to the number of
months or years that 1t will be necessary to
maintain the present mIitary establishment.
AS 1 have said many tilxes before the work
there must be necessarily slow. You can
imagine what the undertaking would be If, |
in the six New England states, all the in
stitutions of centuries were to be uprooted
and an entirely new order of things in
troduced. 1t would produce a tremendous
upheaval. and something OF the same sort
is now going on in the Philippines.
The Manila Times, in its edition of
Sept. 13, which has just come to hand,
tells something of the difficulties of the
educational problem. The editor says:
1t is very questionable whether Superinten-
dent Atkinson would ever have allowed the
teachers to leave the States had he known
in time that the military authorities would
recall the order granting the commissary
privileges to civil employees This act really
overturned the whole basis upon which the
educational authorities had laid their plans |
It was clearly no small matter to import
600 teachers and within three weeks from
their arrival to distribute and establish
them in a systematic manner throughout
the archipelago. The primitive means of
travel, the irregularities in the steam
boat service, the battling and meager in
formation obtained from desired sources
to say nothing of the personal equation
that had to be taken into account in all
these appointments, presented a problem
which must have taxed severely the inge-
nuity of Superintendent Atkinson. Prob
ably no man on the islands has had a
harder task, but that he has performed 1t !
with ability and vigor no one can doubt |
w. w. Jermane