Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-02
Recommendations.

Recommendations
Secretary Root makes the following
recommendations:
That congress at once pass laws
permitting the development of the
material resources of the islands by
private capital.
That the national banking system
be extended to the islands, there
being no American banks and no
wor to create banking corporations.
hat the United States authorize an
insuar coinage Of pesos, Of little less
than the weight and fineness of the
NJ IN y SOS of 377.17 grains of pure
silver. It the rate of two silver pesos
for one COLI dollar.
The the insular government and
the cities of the archipelago be given
power to raise money by the issue Of
bondsn for educational and public
works.
That the lands owned by the
religious Orders-403,O0 acres, be
purchased by the government.
Taken as a whole Secretary Roots
report shows that there is now in the
Philippines a well-convinced, ad-
mirably appointed system of civil gov
eminent, with executive a i in lictal
departments. Every dop1 vent Is
| completely organized. Ev Y intcre-'
in the archipelago is under lie
direction of competent bureau
tn h0
Under the department of III.
interior there is bureau of health
quarantine service, bureaus Vi
forestry, mining, agriculture, weather
fisheries, public lands, patents, ana
copyrights. The department Of com
merce and police includes bureaus Of
postotttce, telegraphs, coast and
geOdetic surveys, engineering, public
works, insular constabulary, prisons
lighthouses, commercial and street
railroad corporations, and all corpora
lions except banking The depart
ment of finance and justice has charge
Of the tnsular treasury, customs, i'm
miratiOn. internal revenue, banks,
coinage, and currency Lastly, the
department Of public instruction en-
braces bureaus Of public instruction
public charities, libraries, museums
statistics, public records, public print
ing, architecture and construction Of
public buildings.
With such an administrative ma
chine In good working order, civil rule
has been extended over 74,152 square
miles of territory-58 per cent. of the
estimated area Of the islands, and
having population Of 4902,837
people. On the other hand, 53,7O2.
square miles, with Pop .236 people.
are under military administration.
Coming to details Secretary Root
quotes statistics which cannot but
prove gratifying 10 the people Of the
United States.
For instance the insular con-
stabulary force has proven, to quote
the secretary's report, that a native
police force, well differed, can be
made faithful and effective, can be
trusted with arms, and will be AMI
element Of constantly increasing value
The latest reports show 5000
natives employed in the various
municipal police forces, and between
900 and 1000 already enlisted in the |
insular constabulary. !
Educational Work.
The department of public instruc-
ton furnishes a most gratifying evil
dence of the progress made by the
United States in bringing the Philip
pine archipelago up to the require
ments Of modern civilization Up to
and manual training school
work, and 781 teachers, all from the /
United States. Besides there were
two superintendent and eighty
teachers from the Philippines. In
Manila there is a normal school for
the instruction of teachers, in which
500 aspirants were enrolled, of which
$40 studied faithfully to the end of
the term
Up to the date of the last reporr ,
10000 Filipino children had volln-
arily enrolled in the primary de-
Dartment of the public schools, but
half OF them are waiting for school ]
rooms. Seventy-five thousand Fill
pinos are in actual daily attendance
1t the schools already established
Between 5000 and 1000 native .
teachers are employees J