The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-15
INSULAR CONDITIONS


tion to have senate committee appointed
to investigate the administration of gov
eminent in the Philippines, took occa-
sion yesterday to charge our government
with crushing out republic crush
ing the liberty out of another people,
and he declared that had we dealt with,
the Philippines as we have dealt with the
Cubans, ''the Filipinos would now be
a happy, prosperous people, sending their
children to our schools and initiating our
institutions" OF course there will be no
committee appointed, for there is~already
a senate committee in charge of the
Philippines.
The charges of Mr.. Hoar are singularly
Inaccurate but such views as he expresses
are entertained by the element calling
themselves anti-imperialists who have
been rather quiet since even they have dis
covered that the nation is disposed to
continue; it's work of spreading American
civilization in the Philippines and of
bringing peace and orderly government
and security for life and property and OPP
pDrtunity for the investment of capital
in the archipelago, giving stimulus to
the industrial activity of the people and
greatly lettering their condition. we
have dealt so we'll with the islanders that,
among other benefits conferred, Senator
Hoar ought to know that there is an in
diligently organized educational system,
under an alert American superintendent,
who has placed eighteen assistant super
intendents wherever it is possible to or
ganize a school district and has secured a
thousand teachers from the United States
and is preparing natives to teach. This
year $500, 900 is provided for school build-
ings. $500 900 for school furniture, SIS, 900
for normal school in Manila and like
sum for normal schools elsewhere on the
islands. At the very start the boon of
liberal public education, after the progress
sive American method, has been bestowed
upon the Filipinos and the educational
process and with it Americanization, is
extended just so fast as the people are
ready to receive it. Senator Hoar thinks
that if we had dealt with these people
as we have dealt with the Cubans, they
would be :sending their children to our
schools and initiating our institutions"
He knows that it was impossible to deal
| with the Filipinos as we deal with the
! Cubans, for the conditions were entirely
| different. We had sovereignty in the
Philippines and we had no sovereignty in
Cuba, but a trust to be carried out to a
I In nj
manner. AS matter of fact the Fill
pinos are going to well-appointed schools
| on the American plan; the agricultural
| department is about to send an expert
! with a corps of assistants to introduce
modern methods on the islands and de-
velop the agricultural wealth; municipal
governments are establishing and Judi
| cial system has been organized and bills
| are preparing for the civil government o.
! the archipelago on the basis of the Taft
commissions recommendations. The
! Lodge bill is designed to give the islands
| form of territorial government under &
| civil governor and an advisory council
and a judicial system, something like
that provided for Alaska. Congressman
Cooper 'has prepared measure looking
to the purchase by the government Of thu
! 1andholdings of the friars, who have
greatly oppressed the natives, and thu
sale of the lands to actual settlers, 81
providing many thousands of the peopl
with homes.
The truth is that, instead of crushing
anybodys liberty, the United States il
comforting the highest form of libert!
upon a people who, under the Spanisl
regime of nearly 400 years knew not wha
i liberty was. The American record is Sc
intelligent future historians