Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-09
PHILIPPINES MUST
Be RETAINED until
FULLY CIVILIZED
SECRETARY or WAR IN ANNUAL REPORT TELLS CONGRESS SOMETHING
ABOUT NEEDS OF ARMY AND WORK IT HAS BEEN DOING IN ALL
CORNERS OF THE WORLD ENGINEERS IMPORTANT FEATURE
MANY Recommendations ARE MADE
AS TO ITS EFFICIENCY IN future

sage of the Militia Pay Bill, now pend
ing, because the 100000 men now il
the National Guard, eager and ambi
tious to be OF service in case of war
are practically unavailable under pres
ent conditions. These men, the secre
tary says. should not only be trained
+ fer war in time of peace and paid b,
the national government, but it mus
be possible to transfer them imme
dately into the general military force
and not militia in time Of war. II
! connection with the subject the sec
retary also recommends the passage
OF the pending volunteer bill whicl
would not entail dollars expense up
on the government in this time or il
/ the future until war comes. Attention
is also directed again to the great
shortage i'll the supply OF field artil
ley, which cannot be purchased
abroad in time of war and requires
years TO manufacture. Taking les
son from the present great struggle iii
the east, Secretary Stimson says
The amount which we have permitted
tC accumulate would be insufficient for
a single engagement of the character
Of the engagements in either the
Russo-Japanese or the present Balkan
war"
Suggestions of the old controversy
between the executive and congress
over the construction of dams in navi-
cable streams without compensation
to the government are contained in a
long chapter of the report dealing
with the attempt of the war depart
ment to protect such streams from
private jeopardations. The secretary
relterates his views already laid be-
fore congress in connection with the
veto last session of the Coosa River
Dam bill, and he again urges that ex,
isting law be amended so that the
guarantee of dam privilege be re.
quired to pay reasonable sum to the
government, the proceeds to be used
for the development of the stream
where the dam is located
The international Waterways com
mission has completed its investiga-
ton of the boundary waters between
the United States and Canada and
with the exception of the final report
upon "a dam at the outlet of Lake
Erie, delayed by the illness of one
OF the Canadian engineers, and it is
suggested that the commission be ex-
tended to April /, 1914.
For the Porto Ricans, the secretary
urges citizenship, declaring that it was
promised and that il has been earn
ed by loyalty. The Island should
also have Il department of labor and
agriculture and a department or
health and sanitation, as well as a
rigorous civil service law, and all judi.
cial officers, non-elective should be
made appointive.
A remarkable recital OF the develop
ment of the Philippines in ways of
civilization during the fourteen years
OF American occupation is given in
the report. 1t is declared that there
is no other instance in history, where
after four years OF war and insurrec-
tion, to over 100000 of an entire
alien race have been so soon given
not merely the forms of civil control,
but immediate ana extensive partici-
patton III their own government. "Simi-
larly,' says the secretary there is
no parallel to the material, mental,
and moral progress shown in these
ten years of civil government by so
many millions Of people, held for cen
turies in ignorance and in effect in
political and economic bondage.
After making this statement Secre-
tary Stimson proceeds to detail at
length what has been accomplished
III each separate direction in the is
lands; the sanitation. the education,
the development of new industries, the
opening of the lands to small farmers,
the construction of harbor works and
railroads and irrigation plants. Yet
with all this progress our work in the
Philippines has Just commenced con-
.iAueS the secretary. Han OF The
children born in Manila die in i:l-
fancy: and million children are
without schools: the old system of
peonage is still accepted by the mas
ses. who unless protected by Ameri.
cans. would fall ready victims to the
rich and educated Philippine minor
lty. The American policy. he says.
should be continued to completion
for until that time all proposals for
are rleas for national
recreancy on our part, and for the re.
of the heavy and difficult
burden which thus far we have been
bravely and consistently sustaining.
Even more is it unjust to the gre at
masses of Filipino people in whose be.
half the high sounding slogan of
liberty and independence are shout
ed After having been for centuries
sunk III ignorance and held in econo
mic subsection, they are now being
aroused to self-supporting manhood
and being welded into national solid
arlty. Along this line, and along this
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