The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-11
Labors Of General Luke
E. Wright in
Congress.
Secured as Much From That Body
as Could Have Been
Expected.

n WHY, IRON gray cOlored man, Win
a square. determined jaw and the
knowledge of what it would be best
not to say. That is General Luke E.
Wright of Tennessee, Deputy Governor
of the Philippines. who was a passenger
on the Korea yesterday. The ship. viii
take him straight to the scene of his
labors. for she goes through to Manila
this trip, and he has the worried air
of man whose vacation has ended
and who rather wants to be back to
the scene of his labors, He was climb
ing into a wagonetee, out Waikiki way.
with his own people, and going for a
drive toward Camp Mckinley when he
was seen yesterday. The title Of Cen
eral that he wears is an Indication of
his surviving fondness for camps and
soldiers. for Wright was soldier be-
fore he became a commissioner and set
himself to assist in the solution of the
problem of American colonial govern
ment in the islands of the East Indies
Yes" said General Wright, II am
going back from my vacation trip"
And he smiled little as he said that.
General Wright has spent the major
portion of his vacation in Washington,
although his home is in Tennessee,
hard at work upon Congress in the
interest of the enactment of certain
legislation that the Commissioners felt
20 be necessary to the successful solu-
ton of the difficulties before them.
II have seen by the dispatches that
the people of the Philippines have been
having rather hard times, he said
1T is perhaps natural that they should.
No country raches its fullest POSSIBLE
tiles of production in time of war. and
the Filipinos have only lately begun
again They had spent a
couple of years before that in making
their land wilderness. And yet it Is
A wonderfully rich land. Few Ameri-
cans realize the natural richness Of it.
We out there have the utmost faith
n its future, although there are many :
difficult questions yet to be met and
solved.
The labor question is one of the :
most vital of these, but and the Gem
raj looked reflective, II suppose we
viii have to get along the best way !
We can with that. for the present. :
rhe people of America, the labor I'M
ons," and his eyes twinkled, would !
lot stand for the introduction of Chi
lese labor there. Well, we have had
ur coinage system placed on gold !
'asis, anyway. and that will tend to
he stability OF business 1t is a great J
hing for a country when it has a !
ound currency. Men in business know, I
hen. from day to day. how their affairs
tand. !
also. Congress gave us our con- !
tabulary bill. That will enable us to
Mist men for the proper policing of
he country. and to keep the upper !
eAiAA "a NAr 4
gu know. are insurrectos out of job.
tho turn outlaw by way of an occu- !
alton, and their. methods SAVIOR of the
efined cruelty possible only to Ash
tics. With our hands strengthened by !
he constabulary bill we feel that we
an go into the regions most infested
y them and pacify the country COM
letely. And that is the sum OF what
ongress did for US. After all. per-
APPS that is as much as we could have !
expected. To be sure. We wanted our
ariff bin passed. but it did not come !
D until late in the session. and then Z
ne members had all their time taken :
p with matters nearer home.
mo. 1 do not know that there are
} be any changes in the personnel !
Z the Philippine Commission. 1 was
orry to see by the cablegrams that
overnol Taft was so seriously i'll. !
i'll I think he must have improved to
E strong enough to be taken to theI :
fountains for his health. He has been !
more or less. for u long time. But :
E VIII get better. do not doubt The
II in the highlands OF the Island of
uzon is wonderfully pure. and there !.