Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-22
prosperity of the United States.

military rule. The insurrectos from the mountains spread terror among the peaceful people by midnight foray and secret assassination. Aguinaldo bided his time in a secret retreat Over seventy thousand American sol diers from more than five hundred stations, held still vigorous enemy in check The Philippine Commission had not yet begun its work. a
 The last vestige of instruction has been swept away. With their work accomplished. over 55,00O American troops have been brought back across the Pacific. Civil government has been established throughout the Arch ipelago. Peace and order and justice prevail. The Philippine Commission. guided at first by executive order and then by the wise legislation of Con- gress in the Philippine Government Act of July 1, 1902, have established and conducted a government which has been a credit to their country and a blessing. to the people of the
 Islands. The body of laws which they have enacted upon careful and intelligent study of the needs of the country challenges comparison with the statutes of any country. The per sonnel of civil government has been brought together under an advanced and comprehensive civil service law. which has been rigidly enforced A complete census has been taken. de- signed to be there as it was in Cuba the basis for representative govern ment: and the people of the Islands will soon proceed under provisions al ready made by Congress to the cleo tion of a representative assembly, in which for the first time in their his tory they may have a voice in the making Of their own laws In the meantime the local and provincial governments are in the hands of off cers elected by the Filipinos: and in the great central officers. in the Com mission. and the Bench, in the execu- tive departments, the most destin- guished men of the Filipino are taking their part in the government of their people. A free school has been es- tablidhed and hundreds of thousands of children are learning the lessons which will fit them for self-govern- ment. The seeds of religious strife existing in the bitter controversy be- tween the people and the religious or ders have been deprived of potency for harm by the purchase of the
 Friars' lands, and their practical With drawal By the Act of Congress of March ?. 1903, gold standard has been adopted to take care of the fluctuat.ng silver currency. The unit of value is made exactly one half the value of the American gold dollar, so that American money is practically part of their currency system. To enable the Philippine Government to issue this new currency, s6.000,000 was bor- rowed by them in 1903 in the City of New York and it was borrowed at a net interest charge of 5-S per cent per annum. The trade of the Islands has increased notwithstanding adverse conditions. During the last five years of peace under the Spanish rule, the average total trade of the Islands was less than s36, 600. .000 During the fiscal year ending June 30tn, 1903. the trade Of the Islands was over s66, ,000, ,000 There is but one point of disturbance. and that is in the country of the Mo hammedan Moros, where there Is an occasional fitful savage outbreak against the enforcement Of the law re- gently made 10 provide for adequate supervision and control to put an end to the practice of human slavery.
 When Governor Taft sailed from Manila in December last to fill the higher office where he will still guard the destinies of the people for whom he has done such great and noble service. he was followed to the shore by a mighty throng not re- pressed and sullen subjects, but of free and peaceful people. whose tears and prayers of affectionate farwell showed that they. had already begun
 to learn that "our flag has not lost it's gift of benediction in it's world
 wide journey to their shores
 None can fortell the future; but there seems no reasonable cause to doubt, that under the policy already effectively inaugurated, the institu- tions already implanted, and the pro cesses already begun, in the Philip pine Islands. if these be not repressed
 and interrupted, the Philippine people will follow in the footsteps of the peo- pie of Cuba; that more slowly indeed, because they are not as advanced, yet as surely. they will grow in ca- pacity for self-government, and re- ceiving power as they grow in capa- city. will come 10 bear substantially
 such relations to .he people of the
 United States as do now the people
 of Cuba, differing in details as con d.tions and needs differ, but the same
 in principle and the same in benef- cent results.
 | In 1900 the project of an Isthmian ! Canal stood where it was left by the Clayton Buiwer treaty of 1850. For
 half a century it had halted. with Great Britain resting upon a joint
 right Of control, and the great under ! taking of de Lesseps struggling
 against the doom of failure imposed
 by extravaganza and corruption. On the 18th of November. 1901. the Hay
 Paunceforte treaty with Great Britain | relieved the enterprise of the right of
 British control and left that right ex-
 clusively with the United States. ! Then followed swiftly inc nexoiiariOns