The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-23
/. EDITOR CLARK SCORES CONGRESS
Hartford Courant's S Chief Says Our Attitude on Philippine Tariff Is Selfish and
 Heartless,
AT M0H0NK CONF FERENCE
Declares We Let n Few Trusts Main tain a Hostile Policy--.C Compli- ments Spirit of Com
 mission.

Lake Mohonk ,N Y, Oct e2--"The Philippines was the general subject 1 of discussion at to-day's session of the | Lake Mohonk conference. The edu l cation and welfare of the Filipino were taken up in addresses by W. 1 Cameron Forbes, vice. governor of the 1 islands Major-Gen, J Franklin Bell, l United States army; Senof Paplp I Ocampo. resident commissioner of the
 Philippines at Washington; Mason s,
 Stone, formerly superintendent of
 schools in Manila, and now commls-
 sioner of education of Vermont; Paul Linebarger of Chicago, formerly judge
 of the Court of the First Instance in
 the Philippines; Charles II, Clark, cd
 itor of the Hartford Courant, Miss
 Mary Coleman of Indiana, formerly ! dean of women at the lnsular Normal
 School in Manila, and others,
 The first speaker was Senor Ocampo who talked briefly first in English, and then in Spanish. He favored the in- dependence of the Fiipnos,
 Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the Hartford tCouu1 Courant, discussed the Philippines from the point of view of their desirablity as United States possessions, declaring that it was pro- E htless to debate as to what might have \ been That We have the Philippines, \ he said is history; but he added, Il ! do not see what else We could have t done. The question whether we |; should have non-contisuous posses \ slons he said was answered by Alaska, A Porto Rico and Hawaii, mot to men \ ton Cuba which is pretty sure to i come our way
 K Mir Clark dwelt at length upon the M fertility and productvcncss of tho |s East as the field for tho future extcn- N sion of commerce. He said
 N "Fut tho Philippines themselves arc IE sirsuIarly fertile Manila hemp i' M needed hy all tho world. sugar rice HI corn, cocuanuts, tobacco in some sec. IR tons, timber and many other valuable M products are raised there. The sugal Ia and tobacco drift naturally across {, M China, but the tariff We would levy or sk them if sent here unablcs the thrift! ; Chinaman to get them cheaper thal II he could if there we're an altematiy, si market The entirely yearly Philip N pine product of cigars is less than th N yearly increase of consumption in thi I country And yet our great tobacco N interests fear Manila and practcall x wall it out and the sugar interest l take the same attitude
 X As "signaly sensh and hoartlcss X Mr. Clark characterized our otlcla H attitude toward tho Philippine island. IA Said he;
 X We let q few trusts maintain W hostile tariff policy. wc keep hangn M, over them restrictive shipping law A suspended only from year 10 yea N which seriously iniure what industr NJ they now have, and while we oster M tatously send back all duties collecto N in the United States on Philippt W products we remove their all-hmpor W ant export duty on hemp provided IN comes to this country AS a rcsu W we get the hemp and the Islands ha' ts lost more in export duties rcmoP' N from hemp than they have recoiv, I from us for all duties collected N their products. Moreover even whc selGshucss goes out and good intc - tous come in, our legislation has n at always worked bcne0ciallr"
 Mir. Clark expressed doubt wheth da "pcople who know no winter cou
 ever equal those upon whim natu nm forces struggle for existence. 'The
 is little stimulus to cXcrtion," sa
 hc. when q fig leaf is enough for f 'r- outer man and a dg enough for { an- inner man and both may be had 27, the trouble of picking them, Add
 or this tho effect of centuries of disord ve- and mfsgoyernmcnt, and few motiN .lte for thrift and accumulation are to uts expected. II needs tho stimulus of { ,rl white mans instruction and super ma sion to get them going
 .lev The speaker pointed to the incre' asa. ing success of medical science in co Ter batting for white men tho prcralor Iisg of local diseases, and added
 an "Iet it bc possible for the indl tho mious and thrifty white man--not Ice ] NdIlIGfllE IHN1lll0If flt VI N'''' ''' and and under his guidance native lal the can vastly increase the produrtiven 1rg of those regions and improve it's .ris al tho same time"
 ,enn in the course of his conclusion, f. is side highly complmentne the Phil md pine commissioners upon tho SD
 in in which they were working. |, to Clark said
 lied "Thore Is no doubt that Ue tav
 most difficult problem on our han
 It has been made additionally ditIlc don by the selfish and co~ardly attitude .cii,. congress regarding the tariff and Dine sentimental attitude in giving at Q
 so much individual liberty to reo
 whose respect for government SO ,.,ol as they have any depends on tl ,e of fear of its power of punishment ot,a TWO APPOINTMENTS MADE,