The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-14
LITTLE BROWN
MEN ARE TIRED
Of TAXATION
RESIDENTS OF THE PHILLIP
PINES NO LONGER LOOK WITH
FAVOR ON THE ARMY OF
HIeH-sALARIED AMERICAN Of
FICIALS.
Special to the Journal.


Washington. D. c.. April 13.-That
the heavily taxed little brown brothers
Of the Philippines are beginning to
look upon the ever-tncreasing army
Of high salaried American officehoId-
ers in the island with about as much
favor as the American colonists view
ed Representatives of the British crown
in the days before independence was
secured, Is indicated in q memorial
prepared for the benefit of the secre-
tary Of war, President Taft and the
American Congress, and published in
the congressional record. The memo
rial is signed by the officers Of the
Nacionalista Party, which represents
approximately 81 per cent Of the ma
tives of the islands, having IS Of the
81 members OF the Philippines as
sembly and % Of the 81 provincial
governors Of the islands.
The memorial states that many
Americans in the Islands are ami
mated apparently with the idea that
the government has been established
here exclusively for their interest and
benefit" and that the Fillipinos are
not to be, nor ever will be, independ-
ent"
Since the congressional investigat-
ing committee has upheld the ruling
of attorney general Wickersham that
the purchase by American sugar in
terests of $1,000 acres of rich Friar
sugar lands was proper, the sentiment
in the islands for early independence
has grown with a league boots
| stride. The Fillipinos have come to
feel that the sugar trust is debating
the Philippine policy of the Taft ad-
ministration, and they are convinced
that the trust intends that the United
States shall retain possession of the
| islands forever.
The people observe" continues the
memorial, that all the preferences
and stimulus of the government is
kept for foreign capital, and it is not
| to be wondered at that the people feel
a profound neglect and that it sees it
self in advance beaten in an unequal
economic condition and loses faith in
| the benevolence of the intentions of
the government
In the practice of professions 1t OBJ
/ serves likewise that the natives of the
country are being relegated to the
background and that the business is
controlled by Americans, and that, as
in the case of the surveyors, there
have been efforts to deny to the lat
ter the practice of the profession in
what relates to an Office of the gov
eminent.
''The gravest defect Of the present
/ system is found in the lack of conf
dence in the capacity of the natives,
who are prevented from developing
/ themselves. The central axle of the
administrative organism revolves in
such a way that it leaves to the Fill
| pinos no opportunity for practice in
the conduct of public affairs through
| means of, direct contact with the
methods of action and their Difficult
ties. If it be considered that the basis
Of the policy followed in the Philip
pines is the preparation of the Fill
pinos for the exercise of the powers
Of an independent government, 1t is
not seen how under the present sys-
| tenn such a result may be obtain
ed.
For example, nearly all the chiefs
OF bureaus are Americans, as are their
principal assistants and local agents
| The best education would be that
which places the Filipinos in contact
by virtue of the duties of their Offices
with a knowledge of the methods and
practical difficulties in the public ser
vice. The same treatment is not &C
corded to Americans and Filipinos in
the civil service. The Americans are
promoted more rapidly than the Fill
pinos in the same office. The in
crease of Filipino employees each year
is only apparent