The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-10
HOLD PHILIPPINES,
Mr.. HULL ADVISES
Chairman of Naval Com
mittee Says They Are
Unfit to Govern.
FOR FREE TRADE
IN ARCHIPELAGO
Influential Republican Condemns
= Mr.. Taft's Policy Of Misleading
Natives With False Hopes.
. Fleet in Pacific Will En-
y force Respect for
the Flag.

WASHINGTON. ID. G., September g.
That the E,ilipinos will not be fit for
independence for fifty years. and that
Secretary Taft was weakening in his
lttitude toward Americas wards in the
Orient is tho opinion OF Representa-
live Hull, of Iowa. chairman OF the
Military Affairs Committee of the
House. He said the Filipinos should
be given TO understand that we are
going to keep them. Incidentally. he
criticized severely the Discrimination
against American capital involved In
the policy OF the United states concern
ing the islands. No American capital
can be induced to go there, he declared
Unless free trade Is given to the islands
Mr.. Hull said.
1--WE are not going TO sell tho Philip
pines. So what's the use of wasting
time talking about it? i regret that
we have them. and we Will get lots oil
grief out Of them. But the only thing
to do is to face the music and do the
best we can.
I'VE will gradually build up self
respecting people by getting more ,,o OF
)lir own kind over there. l would like
to see more inducements given. 10
Americans to go to the Philippines,
Ind less discrimination against them
there. I can say this now freely, be-
cause I have no financial interests OF
liny kind there.
we must give free trade to she
islands and definite Inducements TO our
people to go there and invest their
monopolies. but. II some Americans
start a sugar establishment or big
lumber industry. l believe In dealing
directly with them and making CON
:essions that will be to their advan-
iage. Under the present situation, we
practically call every American IN
business over there by hedging him
,bout with all kinds OF unjust dis
ordinations. Of course. the natives
rffer in the same way. This must be
ttopped. and encouragement given in
)tcad When Spain owned the Islands
the natives had one nation they couit
trade with Now they have none.
CaIIs II Internal Talk.
u would also stop this Internal tall
in end 10 stimulating these half
,ivilized people with the idea that the,
,oing to keep them, and some day; y
hey are fit 10 govern themselves. they
viii have a government like our othel
,erritories, They will not be fit FOL
his for nifty years, and in the mean
lime we must stop, this independents.
Islk among the people over there.
would say to them: II you are good, w
viii reward you. and IL you are no
III conditions. we are going to keel
you. When they understand this. the.
viii settle down. AS things are. now
they interpret our kindness and maui
xence as fear. Many OF the leadint
aatives told me this when I was las
n the islands"
Fleet "a Splendid Demonstration.
Speaking of the sending of an Amer
lean fleet to the Pacific Coast. Mr.. HUI
raid: The Eastern people seem to b
5fraid that If the ships go their coas
Will be bombarded. 1t strikes me tina
The citizens of Boston and New 4orl
Ire under the impression that war
ships are huilt for. them. They ar ar
built for the whole country. TIL
movement of the fleet will be splen
aid demonstration of the navy's power
not only to Japan. but to all the worlc
Il Japan takes umbrage at it it woul
Ihow TO my mind that they contemplat
something they have no business I
contemplate, and the sooner we find
out the better 1t Will be. don't be
lieve Japan wants a war with us a
This time We have some possession / IN
that Japan would be glad to fail hei
TO- but the Anglo Saxon race is
mighty poor race to give up what
has It is more likely to reach ou
for more"