The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
TAFT HOME FROM ORIENT
Secretary Of War Found Philippine
Progress Slow.
INDEPENDENCE is FAR AWAY

breads Wave Of Ladronism Demand,
Reform Of the ConstaDuIary and Gives
No Hope of Autonomy For at Least 1
Generation TO Colne-Not Fitted Fol
Self Governnent.
San Francisco. Cal. -Lamenting the
political situation in the Philippines
and the wave of ladronism chat has
swept over many of the provinces.
Secretary Of War William II. Taft,
who arrived from the islands on the
Korea, expressed the belief that a
change in the constabulary ought to be
effected Immediately, and declared that
the proposition was now under consid.
GRAFTON by the Government.
Referring to the fact that some OF
the younger men on the island had
been advocating immediate independ-
enee, he declared with considerable
emphasis that in the opinion of the
Administration there was no possible
hope for independence short of a gen
GRAFTON, because the people could not
be fitted for self government in that
time and it would probably take a
much longer period.
Miss Alice Roosevelt remained for a
longer stay in the Orient, and the Har-
riman party delayed its return. as all
the cabin accommodations on the Ko-
rea had been taken.
General Taft said: 1t was very graf
flying, on landing at Manila. to find
that the great harbor works, which
will probably make Manila harbor as
convenient as any in the Orient, were
practically completed, so that the larg-
est vessels were able to load and un-
load in stormy weather. during a
southwest monsoon, behind q break
water, something which is unheard of
for years.
The whole appearance of the city.
to one who knew it four or five years
ago, is changed. The streets are well
paved and clean and the cutters and
curbs are in excellent condition. The
main business streets are paved with
the hardest kind of wooden blocks the
streets are being widened, new streets
are being laid out, and everything is
done in accordance with the plan made
for the Improvement of Manila by
Burnham. of Chicago.
The most noteworthy change is the
construction of an electric street rail-
way along thirty-three miles of the
streets of Manila It is a paying prop
erty, greatly patronized by the ma
tives, and has nearly revolutionizee
living in the city
Concerning trade conditions in the
Orient, Secretary Taft said THE pro-
iect to establish comprehensive ex-
hibit of American goods at Shanghai
is one that commands my hearty COM
mendation If it should be put
through, it will be, so far as my in
formation goes, the first intelligent eff
fort of American merchants to go af-
ter the business of the Orient
Situated as the American merchants
are and possessing as we believe the
best output in the world, they are new
ertheless being hopelessly outelassed
in the quest of the immense commerce
Of China, Japan and other Oriental
countries.
Americans are not sending the right
goods over there, and what they do
send is not put up in packages caicu-
lated to attract the merchants of those
countries. The native dealers get no
opportunity to inspect our products.
and probably wouldn't buy such as are
being exported if they did.
Amy such plan as this exhibit should
be supplemented by reorganized con-
sular service, and to this end mer-
chants should get after their Con-
gressmen and compel action on this
most important subject"