The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-22
PHILIPPINES
 WAS THE TOPIC
WAS THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT THE MoHoNk CONFER.
 ENcE YESTERDAY.
]. D. 5urks Declares That the Philip pinos Are Satisfied With the Rule
 of the United States.

Mohonk Lake, N Y. Oct. 21-The problems presented by American oc- curation of the Philippines were dis cussed from various points of view at today's session or the Mohonk con ference. Congressman Michael E. Driscoll of Syracuse. N. Y, who ac- oompanied the Taft party to the Phil ippines, was the principal speaker of the morning session.
 His declaration that the entrance of the United States into the affairs of the islands is a matter for re- gret" and that 'the principles for which the American nation stands are being violated by our remaining there met with emphatic dissent from other delegates,
 At the evening session, Dr. J. D. Burks, director of the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research, who had recently spent six months in the Philippines, acted as spokesman for the dissenters. He declared that tho Filipinos are pleased and satisfied with American control. Explaining that he went to the archipelago as commissioner of the United tSates to study the development of the school system. hecontinued in answer to Con- gressman Driscoll's address,
 The nation will not have discharg. cd the obligation which it deliberately took upon itself until 1t has establish ed not merely in form, but in fact, the institutions of democracy among this people, who have hitherto known only the institutions of monarchy and seryitude.
 This is the greatest program 10 which a nation has ever pledged it's credit It's final success means com Iplete readjustment of relations be- tween the east and west, for through our position in the Philippines there has come to us the opportunity and the obligation of leading the crient in an intellectual and social reconstluc. tioi, perhaps the most significant in all history. eW must not, we cannot prove unequal to this great task.
 "The declaration of independence has been invoked as an unanswerable reason why the United States shoul. withdraw at the earliest possible time from thee ontrol of the Filipinos. This instrument served. in most admir- able way. its original purpose as a campaign document in arousing the enthusiasm of 8 people in successful revolt against their mother country.
 Tn cur own Civil War and at many other times. however this nation has put itself on record as ready to in- terpret the principle of the declara- tion by the logic of independence and actual conditions in the interest of the fullest social welfare
 There is sense in which the ideas of the declaration ar fundament- ally and eternally true. Tn that sense ft Is the great obligation of the Unit ed States to insure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to s.O0O,0o0 ignorant and helpless people
 Among the other speakers at to- nights session was Professor George Blakeslee of Clark University, Wor. cester, M-ss., who discussed "Ameri- ca's Philippine Policy in the Light of Recent Developments in the Far East"
 Edmund Enright, superintendent of Filipino students in the United States introduced Geronimi Huising, one of the students from the Lowell, Mass. | TpvtiIo GchOol