The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-14


dressing itself during the past year.
comprehensive plan Of reorganization was
prepared by the war college division OF
the general staff This plan was thor
oughly discussed last summer at a series
of open conferences held by the secretary |
of war and attended by representatives
from all branches of the army and from
congress. In printed form 1t has been
distributed to members of congress and |
throughout the army and the national |
guard. and widely through institutions of |
learning and elsewhere In the United |
States. In II. for the first time. We have
a 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
ganization, discipline, training. and equip
ment under recent legislation. have been
assimilated, as far as possible, to those
OF the regular army, and Its practical
efficiency, under the effect of this train
ing has very greatly increased. Our ciu-
zen soldiers under present conditions
have reached 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 II produced proper
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-called military pay bill,
| IN the form agreed on between the au-
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 Tor the
| pay which It il proposed to give TO inc
| national guard. I believe that Its enact
| ment into law would be a very long step
| toward providing this nation with frst
line Of citizen soldiery, upon which us
main reliance must depend In case OF any
national emergency. Plans for the or
yanization 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 stan
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
tinues the message. which revolution
ICES the carefully worked out scheme
| of government under which the Philip
pine islands are now governed ano
which proposes to render them virtu'
ally autonomous at once and absolutely
Independent In eight years Such
proposal can only be founded on the
81 assumption that we have now dis
charged our trusteeship to the Filipino
people and our responsibility for then
| to the world and that they are nov
prepared for self-government as wei
as national sovereignty. A thorough
and unbiased knowledge OF the fact
; clearly shows that these assumption
are absolutely with justification.
; to this | believe that there Is no sub
, / stantial difference of opinion amonl
any OF those who have had the respon
4 sibility of facing Philippine problem
A In the administration of the island.
3 and l believe that no one to whom tn
future of this people is responsible
: concern can countenance polio
I fraught with the direst consequence
4 to those on whose behalf II Is osten
Q sihly urged.
4 In the Philippine islands we hav
r embarked upon an experiment unprec'
o dented In dealing with depender
q peoples. We are developing thei
II conditions exclusively for their ow
y welfare We found an archipelal
W containing "a tribes and races. speal
l. ing a great variety of languages. ar
II with population over so per cent.
10 which could neither read nor writ
lie Through the unifylng forces of
4 common education. of commeroi
e. and economic development. and
ut gradual participation in local self-gover1
to ment we are endeavoring to evolve
st homogeneous people At to determin
IS when the time arrives. their own destin
Or We are seeking to arouse a natiosal spi
er II and not, as under tbs older colol)
al theory, to suppress such spirit ~
n character of the work we have been d
T. ing Is keenly recognized In the Orier
es and our success thus far followed wi
or not little envy by those who, initiati
y, the same policy, find themselves ham
al cred by conditions grown up In EARL
he days and under different theories of a
en- ministration. But our work Is far frc
RI done Our duty to the fiiptnos Is
from discharged over half million Fl
ee Pine students are now In the Philippi
on schools helping to mold the men OF
or future into homogeneous people,
there still remain more than a MILL
n Filipino children OF school age yet to
an reached Freed from American cont
the integrating forces of common ec
ne cation and a common language will ces
on and the EDUCATIONAL system now well sta
ry ed will slip back into inefficiency and
X order
all An enormous increase In the comm
me cial development OF the Islands has bt
le. .'.,e .,,oa .bay aro virtuaUv gran
full access to our markets three ye
TO ago, with every prospect of increas
m development and diversified industri
rm Freed from American control such deN
opment Is bound to decline Every
server speaks of the great progress
500 public works for the benefit of the F
its. pinos, of hartor improvements, of r.
asst and railways, OF irrigation and artes
in wells, public buildings and better me-
the OF communication. But large parts
lar the islands are still unreached, still e.
the unexplored roads and railways are ne
my ed In many parts. irrigation systems
rec still to be installed and wells to be driy
up Whole villages and towns are still w
val out means of communication other q
,arl almost impa ssible roads and trails. e
to the great progress in sanitation, WI
ing has successfully suppressed smallpox,
re- bubonic plague and Asiatic cholera,
low found the cause OF and q cure for b
tied bert has segregated the lepers has h
in ed to make Manila the most healthful
lain in the Orient. and to free life through
ing the whole archipelago from Its for
ace dread diseases. IL nevertheless inc
ad- plete in many essentials of permane
geo in sanitary policy Even more remain
rds be accomplished. II freed from Am
zen can control sanitary progress Is boun'
cat be arrested and all that has been ach
and ed likely to be lost.
. of II the task we have undertaken Is h
cat err than that assumed by other nation: