The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-17
upbuilding ID an AmerIean merchant

/ upbuilding of an American merchant
marine.
Indorses all efforts to decrease the
waste from fire losses; recommends
waste be given in public schools, and
advocates the appointment of fire mar
shals in all states. F'avors the reor-
ganization of the state conservation
commissions so they may make inves-
tories of their natural resources and
study the Industrial problems and pro-
mote the development of the states
along non-political lines and in CO.
operation with the federal conservation
efforts.
officers Suggested.
The committee on permanent or
ganization recommended the following
! officers to the convention for the
coming year:
President, A. c. Trumbo. Muskogee.
Okla; first vice president, H. G.
Moore, Kansas City; second vice presi-
dent. Walter Hill, st. Louis; third vice
president, Lewis Fisher, Galveston;
fourth vice president, Richard S.
Jones, Seattle. Executive committee:
Chairman. John L. Powell, Wichita;
Salt Lake City; chairman of the con-
gressional committee, Colonel Fred W.
Fleming, Kansas City, retiring presi-
dent of the congress. An address on
1.-THE Philippines" by Martin Egan,
proprietor of the Cable News, Manila,
P. l., was the principal address today,
the closing day Of the congress. Colo
mel Ike T. Prior of Texas spoke on
1.-THE Live Stock Industry" as did H.
A. Jastro of Bakersfield, Cal, and E.
c. Lasater, president of the Cattle
Raisers' association of Texas. A B.
Hulit, commissioner general of the
grafton Officials, addressed the con-
gresS on Immigration while J. H.
Hodge, road expert of the departm ent
of agriculture, spoke of Good Roals.''
c. J. Gavin of Denver, Colo, and
Professor w. S. Gearhart of Manhat-
tan, Kansas, had a similar good roads
subject. The last business of the day
was the selection of place for next
years convention, Salt Lake City seem
ing to have the best chance of winning
over Seattle and Des Moines.
Our Duty in the Philippines.
Martin Egan. publisher of the Manila
day on the Philippine problem. He said
in part:
''The time has gone past when it
avails practical men to discuss the
wisdom of the Philippine enterprise.
We are in the Philippines bound in the
traces of national task whose duties
and obligations we have fully assum-
ed, and bound to acquit ourselves
give away the Philippines and their
peoples the majority Of whom constitute
the only Christian race in the orient
does not know the temper of the Chris
q barter or abandonment would be an
act of barbarism to the Filipino people
that would make the name America. a
reproach in the world.
There can be but one Philippine pol
icy, and its course is so clearly de-
fined that no reasonable man can mis-
take or avoid it. 1t lies in the educa-
ton, the up1ift, the advancement Of the
Filipino people to a point where they
shall be capable of establishing and
maintaining a government reasonably
certain in an internal sense and rea-
sonably certain Of external protection
OF this capacity we must of necessity
be the fair judges because we can only
surrender our Obligations upon reason
able assurance that they will be met.
This goal lies many years ahead
and when it is reached it shall be Tor
tho Filipino people to say what rela-
tionship toward the United States they
desire Meantime they and their
country need the stability that the
protection of the United States alone
can extend. Their development itself
depends upon that stability. Prema-
ture withdrawal of our sustaining sup
port would be breach of national
faith and an unnecessary retreat
! across the Pacific that must be in
glorious.
No Military Menace.
THE advocates of premature with
drawaI urge two chief arguments, one
/ that the islands are a source of mill
/ tary weakness the other that the adj
1 mlniStration OF colony Is a danger
Gus example TO the citizenship of the
/ United States, but there is no military
menace that makes the first cause
real and if the work of education and
sanitation and general advancement
that is being carried forward in the
Philippines is not an inspiration to
American citizenship am sorEY for