New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-07

to challenge admiration. An observant traveller
has remarked: "All Java is in a way as nnlsnso
tivated from edge to edge like a tulip garoeh
and connected throughout with post roaos
smooth and perfect park drives, ali archeu
with weringen, kanari tamarind or teak trees.
1t has paid princely salaries enrlching It's OF
fcers and adding to the income of the crown OF
Holland. 1t has kept the natives at peace anu
their condition on the whole has been better
under the Dutch than when ruled over by theii
native princes As viewed from strictiy ma
terial point of view, the government mas oeeh
a marked success. When native rights are con
sidered the less said the better. They nave hoe
received promises of better things, and nave
nothing to look forward to except continued
state of vassaiage The thought OF se1-soVerh~
ment is political heresy. ,,,
On the other hand. the policy in the fhllp-
pines has been to urge the native to share In
the burdens and emolumentS OF the govern
ment There are three natives now serving as
members of the Philippine Commission IWeh-
ty-three out OF the thirty-four provincial gov
ernors are natives three out of the seven mem
bers of the Supreme Court are Fflipinos, Whlle
seven out of the sixteen judges of first instance
also natives of the Philippines. over one
half of the entire civil list is composed OF ma
tive habitants of the archipelago IL the Dutch
policy of forbidding the Javanese 10 nave any
share in the government is open to criticism
as it undoubtedly is, the mistake in the Philip
pines if there is one is that civil government
and native advancement have followed TOO close
ly upon the heels of the military
The broad policy that has governed IN the
Philippines, as outlined in President Mckln-
1ey's instructions to the Philippine Commission
has been based the conviction That the 1orllS
of local government the system of land tenure
free speech, free press. the separa ton OF churcn
and state and universal education-princlples
that have made America in a single century
one of the first powers in the world-will, when
applied to the Philippines, contribute to the
liberty, happiness power and wealth OF their
people.
1t is epoch making experiment, and one
worthy of the United States, the planting of
republic at the door of Asia. the cradle. and
home of despotism.
When peace Is restored. and the plans which
have been made to advance the wellbeng of the
archipelago allowed to operate freely, an era
of progress will begin. about which it is diff
cult to write temporarily. Java is valuable as
showing what be done in tropical lands.
The Philippines just fertile, and it may
be affirmed without transgressing the bounds
of modesty that American direction will be
more progressive than Dutch supervision. The
harvests of rice, coffee sugar, rubber, cinchona
and hemp, the products of 100000 acres of
forest land consisting of pine, cedar, mahog-
any and hundreds of other species valuable for
building and cabinet work, the pearl and pearl
shell fisheries of the sea, the domestic and for
eign commerce that will develop when fostered
by liberal and just laws, will in time make the
Philippines the summer garden of the world. 1t
accident. it diplomatic trick,
but the Irresistible evolution of history. that has
placed those islands in our hands