Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-16
FILIPINO UNFIT
-u WANTS NATIVES .,opEp so WE CAN DROP THEM.
.,,n Gains Applause of the ,,.,ee in Speech Supporting
 the Tariff Bill.

,..a+on Ian, 16.-Representa-
 !" r Nicholas Longworth, who studied
 Filipino at close range as a menn-
 # tbe Taft party last summer
 .,,e e in fabor of the Philippine tariff
 % in the house declaring that ne
 asod doing everything possible to
 'o, ,on the people of the islands, so
 t the United States might grant
 "' ao,toovernment at the earliest
 ssible moment and drop them.
 nsoouse of Mr. Longworths close
 1atons with the president $ fami'y 's
 .on,ar;s were listened to with
 .o, interest. some seeing i'll them
 M .sons q reflection of the sentiment
 t,o white house. He stined much
 s,ouse especially from the Demo- ratio side. .,. ,,o
 M mr 1opeworth declared that he
 .d little good in the character of
 ,o Filipino. There were, he sald'
 o nrominent characteristics of the ,.,;o;no mind which made self-govern-
 on+ ramote. Tue Filipino was ab- o,,to1v incapable of forming a con- eution of the duty of public of- nor and just as incapable of com Amending the dignity of labor. It 2r vas an impossibility, said MT. Long rorth, to translate into the Filip'ne ononaoes the idea contaiced in the bhrase "a public office is a public rust.
 "1 cannot bring into my mind that here is any brilliant future for the Philippine islands, and with the sole pxception of the love of family and home that the average Filipino pos sesses I can see nothing bright in the Filipino character" was his comment.
 The passage of the bill, he said, would not damage one iota any Amer |ican industry CT American labor en- ployed in that industry. No one after smoking one native cigar would want another, and with only enc is land on which sugar could be raised and that without a harbcr. he saw no danger from that source.
 Mir. Broussard of Louisiana opn9 Ja 1,nt hn iupp'ne treasury would receive sS.64 on every ton of sugar shipped from the islands to the United States un- | der the bill and that the shippe. would make profit because of the tariff con- cession of s1050 With this situa tion, the Philippines could we'll af- ford to ship here their entire product and buy sugar for their own use from other sugar countries. He asserted with great emphasis that to reduce the tariff on raw sugar as contem- plated in the bill would benefit the sugar trust more than anyone else, simply by providing it with raw ma terial at less cost.
 The present "d srensation of char ity,' he said was the fourth of the same kind and all at the expense of the sugar industry of this country. The Porto Rican reduction was the hrst, Cuba the second, the 25 per cent reduction for the Philippines was third and now the 75 per cent reduc- tlon is proposed.
 Asserting that the beet sugar in- uustry was the essential factor in the success of the irrieation projects of tne west, MT Brooks of Colorado char aclerlzed as bad statesmarship any move to cripple it. If let alone in 'eh years the sugar beet would fur uish half the sugar consumed in the country.
 me friends of the bill, he said. '.aihed that under it only 100000 tons VI Fhlllppine sugar would come here. peet sugar men believed from 100000 .o l'ooo'oo0 tons would come. The ~ iplho laborer, who would produce tue sugar, Mr. Brooks said, wears for ,'o'aes breach clout;; he gets his s1 s'eaAiast from a tree, his dinner o'i 'ne same tree and works for 15 sen's day. This is the labor that :, ,'i oe placed in competition with 'ne American laborer.
 ''i' Lamar of Florida said by the .. .s"pioyment of Chinese in the cigar ., s''ofies Of the Philippines an effectu- s. s' repeal of the Chinese exclusion act ,' so"ia De accomplished as far as that @,.uos1ry @ is concerned. which would oe esneil' only the American Tobacco company. 9s'''sN9 MI nF. Mccall of Massachusetts an. hsuneed ns. that he was in favor of scbo5 ns,oqs revision of existing tariff nlan nsao'es There was. he said a pop plas ' sentiment that the tariff schod- erop.a arranged nine years ago had sat' sroTn inadqaate to the best inter-. ,,