The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-27
Neither Is There Any Objection to
the Standard of Public Schools.
WANT THE CHINESE ADMITTED
AMERICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES
NEED THEM AS LABORERS.
Chamber of Commerce FOrmuIates
Appeal to Congress-River and
HarbOr improvements.

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-William II. Taft
civil Governor of the Philippine island, ar
rived in Chicago this afternoon from San
Francisco. He was met at the depot by
President S. NJ. FELTON,, of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad, and went at once TO Mr..
Feltons residence, where he spent the day.
THE only answer 1 have to make to the
ideas of individual observers, who declare
that the true condition in the Philippines is
being concealed, or that we are hugging de-
Iusion of peace that can never be brought
about, is that the government is concealing
nothing and that its conclusions are not
based on wild theories, but on substantial
facts"
This was the reply Governor Taft made
to a statement published by Stephen Bon
sal declaring that desperate opposition was
still encountered in the field and that the
natives are irreconcilable and better organ
lied than before the capture of Aguinaldo.
Governor Talt said that although there
was time when, for military reasons, it
had not been advisable to make public ev-
erything occurring in the Philippines, the
necessity for such secrecy is over and that
no effort is now being made to conceal any
country.
"As a matter of fact" he added. 'the
embers of dstrust are being kept alive by
sensationalists who seize on every petty
point and seek to twist it into some horri-
bic barbarity of our government in the
islands. Take, for instance, the talk about
concentration camps. Although l am not
sufficiently well acquainted with the full
military plans TO speak with absolute au-
arff Il -
much misunderstood by our people,
LAS a matter of fact. there has never
been any thought of establishing 'concen-
tration camps in the ordinary acceptation
of the term. All that has been proposed is
an fnsurgent Gordon, the establishment Of a
dead line into which will gradually be
drawn the remnants of insurrection that
exist.
THE noncombatants on the islands have
never, even at the hardest period of the
war, received anything but the utmost
Kindness and consideration at our hands
and 1t is hardly probable that this policy
Will be reversed now that the opposition is
fast drawing to a close
The Governor believes that the only ex-
isting opposition TO the authority OF the
United States is being fomented by the
men who form the HOng-Kong junta, most
of whom formerly were residents OF the
rich coffe-grOwing province of Batangas
1t is in this province" he went on, that
we are now meeting with our only diff
Guilty. My statements concerning the close
OF the rebellion are not optimistic in the
sense that they are overdrawn. They are
based nothing but plain facts
The natives are rapidly developing an
affection for our institutions, and a large
number Of former insurgents have become
valuable members Of the community fully
worthy of any trust that may be reposet
In them. The coming elections will devel
op the real progress in this direction and
l am certain that the result will be graft.
flying.
The restrictions placed on the privilege
OF the ballot are principally of an educa.
tiona character, a fact that will of course
cut out numbers of FilipinOs. But this is
a condition that will be bettered rapidly
The progress of educati ton les satisfactory
and our policy in this direction is liberal
mo obstacle of any character is put il
the way of the parish schools; indeed II
Is now generally understood Throughout
the Islands that the government will eager
ly welcome the establishment of additiona
institutions of this character, as long a.
they conform to the educational STANDARD
demanded in our public schools and in
struct pupils in the English language. 1t Ii
utterly immaterial TO us what the chalac
ter OF the school is. All factors that will
aid in the work of education are wei
coined"
Governor Taft refuses to discuss tn.
future of Aguinaldo He says that the de
posed leaders fate is in the hands of tn,
military branch of the service entirely
and that the civil arm has the RESPONSE
bility of neither his custody nor his be-
havior.
Governor Taft left at o'clock tonight
over the Pennsylvania road for Cincinnati
1t was his intention TO hurry on to Wash
ington on Tuesday, but the death of Mrs
1t will be several days before he reache:
the capital