Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-13

dressing itself during the past wear
comprehensive plar of reorganization was
prepared by the war college division of
the general star. This plan was dior
oughly discussed last summer at a series
OF open conferences held by the secretary
or war and attended by representatives
from all branches of the army and from
congress. In printed form it has been
distributed to members of congress and
throughout the srray and the national
guard. ass1 svS3=EJ through Institutions of
learning and elsewhere In the United
states. In it, for the first time, we have
tentative chart for future progress
The National Guard.
Under existing law the national guard
constitutes, after the regular army, the
first line Of national defense Its or
ganizatfon, discipline, training, and equip
ment, under recent legislation have BEEN
assimilated. as far as possible. to those
or the regular army. and it's practical
efhcie7cy, under the effect of this train
ing. has very greatly increased. Our cid-
zen soldiers under present conditions
have reached q stage of development be-
yond which they cannot reasonably be
asked to go without further direct as
sistance in the form of pay from the fed
eral government On the other hand such
pay from the national treasury would not
be Justified unless 1t produced proper
equivalent In additional efficiency on the
part of the national guard. The organized
militia today cannot be ordered outside of
the limits of the United States, and thus
cannot lawfully be used for general mill
tary purposes. The officers and men are
ambitious and eager to make themselves
thus available and to become an efficient
national reserve of citizen soldiery. They
are the only force of trained men, other
than the regular army, upon which we
can rely. The so-caled military pay bill
L. ~
thorities of the war department and the
representatives OF the national guard. In
my opinion adequately meets these con-
ditions and offers a proper return for the
pay which 1t Is proposed to give to the
national guard. l believe that Its enact
ment into law would be a very long step
toward providing this nation with q first
fine of citizen soldiery. upon which its
main reliance must depend In case OF any
national emergency. Plans tor the or
ganization of the national guard into tao
| teal divisions. on the same lines as those
| adopted for the regular army, are being
/ formulated by the war college division
| of the general staff.
Porto Rico Mr.. Taft says. continues
to show notable progress and he urges
| the senate to pass the bill granting the
| Porto Ricans American citizenship
Philippines
| A bill is pending in congress con-
| tinues the message, which revolution
| ICES the carefully worked out scheme
| of government under which the Philip
I pine islands are now governed and
| which proposes to render them virtu
| ally autonomous at once and absolutely
| independent in eight years. Such
| proposal can only be founded on the
! assumption that we have now dis
| charged our trusteeship to the Filipino
| people and our responsibility for them
| to the world, and that they are now
| prepared for self-government as well
| as national sovereignty. A thorough
| and unbiased knowledge of the facts
| clearly shows that these assumptions
are absolutely with Justification AS
| to this, / believe that there IS no sub
! stantfal difference of opinion among
| any of those who have had the respon-
| sibility of facing Philippine problems
/ in the administration of the islands,
| and believe that no one to whom the
/ future OF this people is a responsible
! concern can countenance policy
| fraugAt with the direst consequences
/ to these on whose behalf IT Is osten-
/ sibly ,rGed.
In Philippine islands we have
| ema2 ked upon an experiment unprece-
| denied in dealing with dependent
| peoples. We are developing there
| conditions exclusively for their own
| welfare. We found an archipelago
| containing "a tribes and races. speak
| ing a great variety of languages. and
with a population over so per cent. Of
| which could neither read nor write
! Through the unifying forces of a
/ common education. of commercial
| and economic development and of
| gradual participation in local self-govern-
ment we are epdeavoring to evolve
| homogeneous people fit to determine
when the time arrives, their own destiny
| We are seeking to arouse a national spr-
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theory, to suppress such a spirit. The
! character Of the work we have been do
ing is keenly recognized In the Orient
and our success thus far followed with
not a little envy by those who initiating
the same policy. find themselves hamp-
cred by conditions grown up in earlier
days and under different theories Of ad-
ministration But our work is far from
done Our duty to the Filipinos Is far
from discharged. Over half a million Fill
Pine students now in the Philippine
schools helping to mold the men of the
future into a homogeneous people, but
there still remain more than a million
Filipino children of school age yet to be
reached Freed from American control
the integrating forces of a common edit
cation and a common language will cease
and the EDUCATIONAL system now well start
ed will slip back into ineffciency and dis
| order
An enormous increase in the CONNER
cial development of the islands has been
made since they were virtually granted
full access to our markets three years
ago. with e~ery prospect Of increasing
development and diversified industries.
/ Freed. from American control such devel,
| opment is bound to decline. Every OBJ
server speaks of the great progress in
public works for the benefit of the Fiji
pinos, OF hartor improvements of road
and railways, of irrigation and artesian
wells. public buildings. and better means
Of communication But large parts of
the islands are still unreached. still even
| unexplored. roads and railways are need
ed In many parts irrigation systems are
/ still to be Installed and wells to be driven.
Whole villages and towns are stil with
out means Of communication other than
almost impossible roads and trails. Even
the great progress in sanitation, which
has successfully suppressed smallpox, the
bubonic plague. and Asiatc cholera, has
found the cause OF and a cure for berl-
beri. has segregated the lepers. hes help
ed to make Manila the most heaithfui city
in the Orient and to free life throughout
the whole archipelago from its former
6read diseases ia nevertheless fnCOTn-