Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-25

Philippines is discussed in earnest vein The views of William J. Bryan. Grover Cleveland. Richard Olney. President Schurman, General Miles and ether men prominently before the pubic, are given at length. It is a strong arraignment of imperialism. !"
 Extracts follow:
 The United States has no issue involving greater responsibility than the retention of the Philippine Arch 1pelago with its liberty-seeking peo- pie. In the ever-increasing caSustry the opinions expressed by feerless statesmen, great educators and sold iers can well be taken into account. They are better entitled to credence than partisan statements of persons forced by official employment to sup port an administration of which they are part
 An administration constantly eulo- gizing war is bound to regard con quest of the legitimate adjunct of strife.
 The conflict in the East between Russia and Japan has pregnant bear ing on Americas future, in the spec tacle which it has offered of a great Power reduced to pitiful straits through need for defending an isolated position, removed thousands of miles from its base of supplies. Russia's hone strength could not be trans mitted 10 Port Arthur-and hence the spectacle of a giant bleeding to death at an extremity. In the event of Am erica being forced into a foreign war. the difficulty that would attend the defense of a scattered archipelago in the Orient is only too obvious.
 Tt will not do 10 say, as MT. Roose- welt does. that it would be 'unwise' for him to inform the American public wha- is the next thing he intends to do in the Philippine Islands. If he were dealing only with the Filipinos. he might contemptuously tell them that it was none of their business what he proposed to do: but as the Am erican people are interested in this question they are entitled to know for what purpOs and with what object. and for what probable length of time, this administration Is spending its money by the hundreds of millions The Democratic party declares plain ly and unequivocally what it intends to do. President Roosevelt simply tells the American people that it would be unwise to tell them what his next step viii be-
 We know that the leading Fili- pinOs, and those most friendly to and most trusted by our own representa- lives in the Philippines demand state hood in the American Union. and the only permanent alternative to that ts absoluee independence. The Feder al party in the Philippines, which has been the friend of the United States since it's formation, and from whose membership nearly all the native off cers are drawn, declared for statehood was submitted in it's first platform and that platform, bfore it's adoption was submitted to and revised by Gov ernor Taft and the American mem bers of the commission
 The committee of visiting Filipinos now in this country. are frank and out spoken n declaring themselves fol either statehood or independence.
 How soon We have forgotten th' principles upon which we were golnt to act when we took possession of thu Philippine Islands. Then we were t' have the open door That was dis tinctly proclaimed in annex to proto col No. 15 in the treaty of peace-I being the policy of the United State to maintain in the Philippines an opel door 10 the worlds commerce. Ye when certain interests demanded il We promptly imposed a duty on al hemp going from the Philippines t any other country except the Unite States. Protests are now on file i the State Department from nearly eN cry country in Europe against thi violation or our specific promise { maintain the open door to the con merce of the world"
 On the subject Of wages Of Tai!w 9 employees, the textbook says, anon other things:
 Every railroad corporation in tn United States is compelled by law report to the Interstate Commerc Commission at Washington the aggr' gate number of days worked duriH the year by all of it's employees, and a those belonging to each class, and tn precise sums paid in wages to a employees and to each class Fro: these data the comission's statistical figures averages of daily wage which represent every workman. cl pIoyed during the year, and every do lar paid in wages.
 Railroad labor affords the mos accurate barometer of wages A larg proportion of its employees arc unio men, whose wages are comparativ' ly steady. Now, the wages of raj road employees, as shown by the Inte state Commerce Commission, ave aged nearly the same in 1901 a. he did nine years before, in 1892 1902 they were 1-2 per cent higl CT than in 1901 and , per cent highe than in 1S97."
 A table is then given from the il terstate Commerce Commissioner report. which gives in detail the nun Der of earners in each ciass of raj way labor, with their average dail wages for specified years. Continuing it says:
 From the above table it VIII b seen that the greatest increase wages. excluding general officer from 1897 to 1903. was only IA pc cent, or less than the increased cos