Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-13
Former Salt Lakero ar and Other Philippine Problems
THE PRESENT NEED.

his labor, and furnish him tools, than
ever he could by himself.
THE PRESENT NEED
what do you think Is the great pres
ept need of the islandsY' was suggest
ed
We'll it is capital ana brains. In a
general way Mr.. Pitt replied. "The
land ls there the labor Is there. but the
money TO start the labor to work and
TO market the products OF the land has
not yet been supplied. When 1t is. the
United States win find the Philippines
one OF the most productive portions oe
its domain. This Is not an invitation
to young American TO rush over. In
the days of the Utah battery the gov
eminent spread vast amount OF NON
ey out through It's army and business
was booming In a small way. Anyone
could live at any kind OF little business.
Now conditions are on u more sub
stantlal basis and II Is much harder Ia
merely exist II one wishes to go to
the Islands he needs to bring with him
capital. at least in quantities sufficient
to carry him for year or two.
CAPITAL BEING INTERESTED.
"When VIII this capital come? Wen
It ii starting now. but just barely
starting. ! know of a good deal that
Is coming over from the states. Now
1t Is Il fact, and We might as well rec-
ognlzc and confess 1t, that no Ameri-
can viii live in the Philippines except
in The hope Of making commercial
profit out of his life there. He won't
want TO get rich and go away, prob
ably, but he VIII at least
want to get rich. and there are
opportunities In plenty to make money
aud the place Is good enough 10 live In.
The American can get rich without do
Ing injustice to anyone. This, too, Is
becoming apparent and the Filipino is
taking mis- place as one who can profit
best i'm the hands Of concerns which
will direct his efforts. and provide work.
paying him the price of his labor AS
commercial enterprise get under way
the price of labor viii go up. and here
the Filipino viii profit by his neigh
boris efforts.
TARIFF AND OTHER PROBLEMS.
Now in regard to some of the prob
l,Ns the islands are contendng VIII
Just now OF course the most import
ant Is the tarin, and q Just talih ~
being delayed Oh account of the fear
I'm America that Philippine sugar ANA
tobacco VIII flood the American mar
ket especially Philippine sugar. But
this fear * not well founded. The great
product OF the islands is rice, and IL
can be IA ised to more profit than sugar.
Hemp and cocoanut groves are next In
importance, and as the Islands grow
these crops ana not sugan will be the
principal ones raised. II ~ unfortunate
for the islands that Americans con-
slider sugar from the Philippines as
liable to hurt the beet raising Indus
try, but | think most of the senators
and congressman realize that the fear
Is not well grounded, and that free
trade will benefit America--that Is the
states. fully as much as II will the is
lands.
THE RICE HARVEST.
Take for instance in harvesting rice,
only few years ago fourth or more
Of the crop was wasted owing to the
crude methods. Now here and there
is an American threshing machine. and
when the tariff wall IL taken down. the
deNand for American threshing ma
chimes will be immense.
zone item acts as a barrier now TO
free trade. Thas Is that the govern
ment derives about SS,000,000 year
from tariff, out of a total revenue of
81, 900. In the treaty which closed
the Spanish war It was stipulated that
for 10 years Spain should receive The
same tariff rates as those assumed by
the most favored nation. Should the