The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-04
PHILIPPINE ByDGET
RECEWEDI
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right away when he returned to the
islands this time was that there exist
ed a new feeling between Americans
and Filipinos thar there was less re.
gard, less confidence between the two
peoples than when he left He said
he wondered why this feeling should
prevail when so many benefits had
been conferred on these people by the
American government, He earnestly
asserted that he was not here to crit
icise his own countrymen, but that he
wanted to have a talk, a conference
with them on this matter
The people must realize that the
time for thinking had come. He had
not the slightest doubt that every
American present i'm his heart wanted
to do everything possible for the Fill
pino people and asked why cannot we
convince them of this and make them
believe it is so?
General Bell then enumerated some
of the reasons he thought existed why
the two peoples did not arrive at
better understanding He said that
the princiuaI one was that every
American had the well known failing
of being so enthusiastic over every
thing that trauspres in, is made in
and belongs to his own country that
he Is like a new convert who has been
taken into the fold and wants imme-
dio+aIv to convert everybody else. In
this connection he said that a little
rodoety abopt his own country would
rot burt tbe average American. and
from the laughter which arose in all
parts of the hall. it would seem that
fbe audience agreed with him. The
sneaker then referred to the we'll
known axiom thai the Filipino will
NOT work" Why insist upon their
working when they have everything
they need and are exceedingly com
Portable without working, asked the
general. WHY make them work to ac,
ouira automobiles. telephones and
many other things which only tend
to make nervous wrecks of mankind?
WHY want them TO wear modern
mans clothes which are most uncom-
Portable? The general also paid his
RESPECTS to womans wearing apparel
by saving that they wore "a strait
Jacket which would make a unatic
turn male and tolerated a harness that
would irritate a mule?" Why make
Filipino women wear such clothes
Were we sure, asked General Bell
that all these things were good thing:
and better things for the people thar
their own?
Another thing that Americans
lacked generally. said General Bell
was manners. Americans were tor
brusuue too frank. too outspoken, and
the Filipinos did not understand that
which conseuuently was another cause
of lack of sympathy between the two
people General Bell said that one
must have kindly feeling in the
heart before one can convince Others
that it exists and that he hoped al
Americans could find that feeling il
their own hearts for a people who haJ
so many good qualities as have the
Filipino people.
General Bell said also that he hoped
that no American within sound of hi:
voice could have such an unworthy
feeling in his heart as to object to 6
peoples aspiring to haze a voice il
their own affairs, as that was mos
un-American. That our own govern
ment was founded on the principle
that it was 'of the people, for the
people, and by the people" and. that q
similar feeling had grown among al
the peoples of the earth ever sine;
the foundation of the American repu5
lie.
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