Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-13

" Utah volunteer should go
IS hack to his old Manila haunts.
ha would hardly be able to find
his way around declared Har-
-, NJ pitt OF Manila, p. Ito News
saoresentative this morning,
~, pitt is now one of the most sub
Genital business men OF the Philip
s,,es He has been there since the be-
,trg Of American rule and prior 10
49,, he was manager OF Bradstreets in
saI. lake. and was locally a well
,,ovn young man. His mother still
,,des here at the old Pitt corner ON
I'm Temple. and his friends are
~ among the men who were boys 4
dogen years ago. Mr.. Pitt has been in
.ho states for four months on a bust
. ,nss triu and leaves Monday with his
vife for Manila, =. i.
,.1'he feeling In America seems 10 ne
mat we paid too much for the islands
and that the money and lives thrown
away would never be compensat-
ed for. Time is proving however, ne
.H,,tinueA. that they are more than
,'otion picked up such a rich parcel or
and I'VE had some wrong ideas about
:, at arst. and we took the wrong view
~ the most advisable policy of govern
,,ent decade OF American rule VIII
Se 6nished In two more years. and the
.nd M that time will see so many
Manages for the better that 1t VIII be
snnsrent everywhere how great
Messing IL was even for the Fllipinos
themselves, that the Americans took an
interest in them.
fme of our mistaken ideas was that
ultimately the Fillpinos would be given
Independence, and consequently there
was policy OF preventing exploitation,
IN order TO keep the islands intact for
the Filipinos.
NO INDEPENDENCE HOPE.
The most vital thing America has
done in recent years In its Island poll
lev was to announce through Secy. Iait
ON his last visit, that there was no
hone for independence, either IN the
near future, OF at reasonably remote
time. This announcement brought
great deal OF foment to n close. Tine
frtah volunteers will remember Buen-
canine. Pic Del Pillar. Montenegro. AL
eianderlno, and number of other Tag
alog leaders. out OF their party there
grew up in Manila party OF radicals
who kept things stirred up IN the hope
Of securing independence and being IN
q position to profit by 1t.
REBELS HAVE DISBANDED.
Since Tafts announcement this party
has dlsbanded From end TO end of
the Philippines there is peace, and the
people are getting down to work In
earnest. Agunaldo, who made the
government such long and continued
trouble is now peaceful citizen OF
Cavite province near Manila, and has
settled down to the life OF a rice farm
er He is doing well at 1t, too, and
bids fair to grow wealthy. Alejandrino
was In the employment of the govern
ment for time. while most of the
other leaders have sunk out OF sight
and are never heard Of now in public
life
DIRECTION AND CONTROL.
'srhe Hilipinos need direction and
control. for the more one knows them,
tho more he learns that they are help
less without someone to lead them. IL
a Filipino learns to till the land with
a caribao. and Il dies, he VIII starve
with the richest OF land around his
house, never thinking that he can get
out with n spade and do much better
than with an animal. Initiative Is the
great missing quality of the Filipino
makeup, and he VIII prosper more un-
der guidance from others, who will use