The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-15

prominent native politicians called up
on Governor Wright and stated that
they did not like the position of I'M
certainty in which they were placed.
The leader went on to say that he
understood that the Word of no man
was final in this particular, but he
thought it wou,d be advisable for con-
gress to make a declaration of its in
tentions, that if the American govern
ment expected to go away within a
decade it would be well to say so; also
that if it expected to remain for
hundred years it should be stated. The
governor replied by citing them to the
act of congress of July L. 1902, which
is as emphatic as anything could pos
sib1y be, as far as a declaration of in
tentions is concerned.
The particular passage relating to
the future government of the Philip
pines, after approving the act of the
president in creating the Philippine
commission, says: THAT whenever the
existing insurrection in the Philippine
Islands shall have ceased, and the con-
dition of general and complete peace
shall have been established therein and
the fact shall be certified to the presi-
dent by the Philippine commission,
thereof shall order census of the
Philippine Islands to be taken by said
Philippine commissions; 80
THAT two years after the compile
ton and publication of the census, in
case such condition of general and
complete peace with recognition of
the authority of the United States,
shall have continued in the said Islands
not inhabited by Moros and other nom
Christian tribes, and such fact shall
have been certified to the president
by the Philippine commission, the
president, upon being satisfied there
of, shall direct said commission to call,
and the commission shall call. a gem
eral election for the choice of dele
gates to a popular assembly of the
people of said territory in the Phil
ippine Islands which shall be known
as the Philippine assembly After said
as bly, s, IL have convened and or
ganized, all legislative power here |
tofore conferred on the Philippine COM
mission shall be vested in a legislature !
consisting of two houses-the Phil
ippine commission and the Philippine |
assembly,"
FUTURE RESTS WITH FILIPINO. |
Nothing could be more to the point i
The whole program is clearly outlined. |
If the Filipino is in earnest about
wanting independence and is capable t
of exercising the rights thereof, he :
certainly has the chance. The United
States is living up to its part of the
agreement in every respect. The COM
mission has been established as prom
ised, the census has been taken, and
the assembly will be inaugurated two
years hence, if in the meantime ga
condition of general and complete
peace, with recognition of the authority
of the United States, shall have con-
tinued."
1t is plainly up to the people of the ,
islands themselves. The mass of the |
Filipinos should be made to clearly /
that the only way for them
to realize their ambition is by obey
ing the law. They should be impressed |
with the fact that every disturb
ance which occurs in the country post
pones rather than hastens the day of !
their freedom. The agitator who in !
cites the people to make show of
discomfort in the hope of discoura ging
the American administration is the
arch enemy of his people, because the
assembly will not be called unless
years after the taking of the census.
The census has been completed, but
there is not a condition of general
and complete peace in the islands at
this time.
The leading Filipinos who have the
good of their people at heart should
proclaim to the ignorant masses that
the idea of a few bands of ladrones
frightening the American government
into Withdrawing form the islands is
futile and absurd; they should make
It known far and near that the agita-
-ors are at this moment postponing the
very thing they are clamoring for-the
law is explicit in saying that there
IAN be no assembly until there is "a
of general and complete
peace" 1t is safe to say that the first
session of the assembly. even if it is
cot called for several years, viii be
in that it will be mark
ID by more red fire than statesman Y
hin