The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-11
FILIPINO PROCEDURE.


More or less attention is being paid
lust now to the Philippines IN the re-
ports and comments of Eastern news
papers. Thus the Philadelphia Record
has this editorial squib:
The ImperIalists arc having great dit,
ficulty In keeping UP the pretense that
VIC arc in the Philippines for the good OF
the natives The Legislative Assembly
has adjourned without voting the appro-
priation bills as a protest against INC
Government has censured Secretary
Worcester OF the Commission. and rear
;irmed It's demand for independence
There is no doubt but the Fllipinos
are spectacular; no doubt but they are
willing to bite off their noses to spite
their faces; and doubtless they are quite
willing to stop the machinery of the
Government if thereby they can spite
"their enemies. - that have given
them such freedom and led them to such
advances rs they at present enjoy. Ihe
action Of the Filiplnos in this matter
shows two things; first, that they have
not progressed far enough on the lines
Of civilized public polity to be able to
distinguish as between what is due to
themselves and what Is due to Others
and anarchy; and, second, they vindl-
cate the old saying that the surest way
to obtain one IS enmity is TO do him
favor at considerable loss and expense
10 ones self,
Another evidence of the state of pro-
gression which the Filipinos have at
taincd is in the following from the edl-
toriaI page Of the New York Tribune:
A recent issue Of the Cable News
American OF Manila reports remarkable
proposal submitted TO the Philippine AS
| scmbly 1t is that "a bill be drawn and
| approved by the Legislature providing
| for the practice I'm the Philippine Islands
| Of polygamy for the purpose Of lncreas-
| ing the population from the seven mil.
| lions OF today to AT least torty milliohS
| In commenting on the innovation the
| Cable News says that only. one pro-
vldcd' is suggested in the bill. and that Is
| that every man taking to himself more
| than one wife shall have sufficient income
10 support them
Adviccs do not say whether or not
the bill suggested was drawn and passed
before the Philippine assembly ad-
iourned in a huff. There is a familiar
twang to it, however, although lack
ing in the matter of revelation The
idea that population can be built up
faster under polygamous than under a
homogeneous system is so utterly fai'
lacious that we do not wonder to see
il adopted by the Filipinos in their
present crude state of economic and
political attainments. 1t is about whal
might be expected from them. But VIC
might suggest that in order TO make
that fallacous notion conform to pre-
cedent they ought TO have church OF
their own in which this polygamy idea
would be the prominent article of faitf
and practice.
On the other hand, there are Fill
pinos, it seems who have more sense
more Of an idea of what is due TO them
selves and their benefactors than those
who went so wrong in the Philippine
assembly. We find this editorial in th'
New York Evening Post, which is pro
5 Filipino, but which is willing TO stat
; The facts as they are:
The increase OF $40 persons. or clever
; per cent. III the number taking the ciyi
service examinations for places in tn
Philippines during the last fiscal year
is due almost entirely to the large
number OF Fllipinos examined in English
Excluding non educational examination
: for skilled 8borers. there was an in
= | crease OF sci. or twenty-four per cent
i in the number OF Filpinos examined Il
. English, and decrease OF 30i, or nine
teen per cent. in the number examine
in Spanish. Up To September 30: l9os
2 the maximum number Of Fi)ipinos eA
. amined In English In any year wa
t nineiy-one. During the last fiscal yea
!. II reached i5is. OF the persons eX
= amined in tho Gfty-three distinct kind
l OF tests during tho year. seventy min
S per cent were examined ia Englisl
| Slightly more than eighty per cent Q
the local appointees were Filipinos. Their
% | was a decrease OF thirty -onc per cent 1
tho number OF Americans appointed /
D the United States To the classified service
q One feature OF the wears statistics whic
| the Bureau of civil Service looks upo
] unfavorabv is the Increase in volun;sr
q rcsignations OF regularly and permanent
lv appointed Americans. OF these. ther
q were SOS. or nineteen per cent OF the tott
4 number. and this Is an Increase Of IL
or thirty five per cent over the numbe
IS for the preceding year Finally. the ab
N itv OF the Bureau TO supply well-qual
icd men has horne It's natural fruit
II leading appointing officers TO take
l. higher view OF It's value.
:, All of which shows that. as must /
'e expected, there are FiIipinos and oth'
It Filipinos. And it is to be hoped tn;