The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-01-27
ENVIRONMENTS
REMOVAL OF
TARIFF
SECRETARY, IN REPORT TO CON-
oREss. WANTS AMOUNT or
'PlNos' SUGAR AND TOBACCO
ADMITTED WITH LIMITATIONS.
Recommendations in
Sec. Taft's Report

congress admitting philippine ~
land products TO United States
markets with such reasonable linn
Itatlons as may remove fear OF ~
reference with the tobacco ano
SUGAR interests In the United
States.
That the present restrictions on
the acquisition Of mining claims
and the holding Of lands by COR
porstlons in the philippines, pc
removed.
That further legislation be en-
acted authorizing the Philippine
government. " II chooses, to open
and conduct an agricultural bank
having capital not to exceed
100000.
That the United States coast
vlso laws be made permanently
lnappIlcable to the trade between
the ports of islands and the por"
OF the United States
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.--An opti-
mistic report on his recent trip 10 the
Philippines is submitted to congress
today. by Secretary Taft. 1t Is ac-
companied by letter from President
Roosevelt, highly commencing the sec
retnry's conclusions and declaring that
the Filipinos "haveNyet long way 10
travel before they will be ft for com
plete self-government. No attempt Is
made by Secretary Taft to fix date
for Filipino independence. !.
Replying TO those who have protest
ed against the cost or the philippines
to the United States. the secretary ns-
ures ont a total annual expenditure OF
Sc. 900 900 and he vigorously denies the
failure of the Philippine policy.
The Fflipinos now desire the Ameri-
can soldiers to be retained In tho ISL
ands and the constabulary Is popular.
he SAYS. There is high standard OF
administration of Justice and there are
no questions between the government
and the Roman Catholic church. unless
the Aglipyan schism can be said to be
| involved.
Peace prevails in a greater degree
than ever before in the history or the
islands. The magnificent Benguet road
Is now justified by the results OBJ
tanned.
The secretary is willing to limit the
amount OF sugar and tobacco that can
be exported to the United States. He
predicts a development OF business
within % years that will make the Fill.
pinos themselves stand high In the
worlds Industrial population.
In speaking of the political future
of the country, Secretary Taft says:
! There are In the Philippines many
who wish that the government shall
declare a definite policy In respect TO
the islands. do not see how any
more definite policy can be declared
than was declared by President Nc
Kinley In his instructions to Secretary
Root for the guidance Of the Philippine
commission. which was incorporated
into law by the organic act of the Phil
ippine government, adopted July /,
1909.
ANY attempt to fix the time In
which complete self-government may
be conferred upon the Filipinos In
their own interest, is, think, most
unwise. The key OF the whole policy
outlined by President Mckinley and
adopted by congress was that OF the
education OF the masses of the people
and the leading them out Of the dense
ignorance In which they are now, with
view to enabling them intelligently
to exercise the force OF public opinion
without which popular self-govern-
ment is impossible.
The 'Pino a Good Chap.
1.-THE educated Filipino has an at
tractlve personality. His mind Ia
quick, his sense OF humor fine, his
artistic sense acute and active; he has
q poetic Imagination; he Is courteous
In the highest degree; he Is brave he
is generous; his mind has been given
by his education touch OF the schoI.
astic logicism; he Is a musician; he is
oratorical by nature.
mo one denies that 80 per cent OF
the Filipino people are densely ignor.
ant. They are in state OF Christian
tutelage. They are childlike and sim.
pie. with no language but local Ma
lay dialect spoken in q few provinces:
they are separate from the world 8
progress"
| tonceInlnB tne sugar question, Sec
retaiy Tafts report says.
There fs great deal OF land avail
able for sugar In the Philippines. but
there In very little OF IL as good as
that In Cuba. and the amount OF capt
tai involved in developing IL Is 80
great that think the possibilitity OF
the extension OF the sugar production
Is quite remote.
The moment IL expands the price OF
labor. which has already Increased so
70 70 per cent, Will have another In
ed Is that the sugar industry should
pc restored TO Its former prosperity OF
the earlier Spanish times when the ex-
ports OF sugar reached 2s5,000 tons, to
Question OF Labor md Capital.
All that a friend OF tho Philippines
can hope for In that the sugar and
tobacco industries shall regain their
| former reasonably prosperous condi-
tionsA The development OF the Islands
must be IN another direction. The
question OF labor and capital both
growth OF sugar productions.
result for the Philippines gniands ia
1 have the fields OF theae ISLANDS turned
| The social conditions that this would
bring about would not promise well
Tor the political and Industrial develop
ment OF the people. because the cane
s wb,er , hhnduSsry makes a society IN
holding very large estates with tire
most valuable and expensive plants
| and large population of unekilled
| labor with no small farming or mid
| ole class tending TO build no n conser-
] vatixes self-respectine community from,
bottom TO top.
U. =. should Open Markets.
| = But while n hava thia vlew In 90.