The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BUDGET


day Following are extracts from the
address Of Hon. Chas. b. Elliott. sec.
rotary of commerce and police, at the
opening:
IAN individual, community,
state, is capable of exertlng but Ger
tain definite amount of energy. The
objects to which it is applied and the
way in which it is distributed is the
test Of capacity for success.
what is frittered away in talk and
contention is stolen from planting and
producing.
The man with honestly won money
in his pockets respects himself, and
is respected by his neighbors. The
INDECENT and improvident he who con
sumes more than he creates can eX-
pect no more than tolerance from his
neighbors.
individuals and peoples must adapt
themselves to their physical and in
tellectual environment. What is re.
quired in one age and place is unnec-
essary and misapplied in another.
I'm this twentieth century the test
of capacity is the attitude toward
economic questions. Those who think
clearly and face facts are devoting
but little energy to questions which,
although alive and vital few dec
AIDES ago, are now but truisms and
platitudes-the mental playthings of
the immature.
The fact that the people of the
Philippine Islands are turning their
attention to questions of production
manufacture and distribution, is evil
dence of their capacity for seeing and
grasping opportunities.
THE suspicious opening of the first
Philippine Industrial Exposition is an
important event in the history of the
islands. 1t is a visible evidence that
the people have entered into the
spirit of the present age, that they
have joined for all time the ranks of
the progressive"
Governor General w. Cameron
Forbes will press a button at p. m.
today which will throw wide the gates
of the fifth annual Manila carnival
and the first Philippine Exposition.
This will be the signal for a round
of merry-making which will end only
with the break of dawn a week from
tomorrow morning.
After the opening ceremonies, which
will be witnessed by a cosmopolitan
crowd numbering into the hundreds,
the governor general will deliver an
appropriate address. Secretary c. B.
Elliott and Assemblyman Filemon
Conception will also make short talks.
The opening of the grand Olympiad
at a. m. will be the first carnival
attraction but the premier event OF
the day will be the initial aeroplane
fight of Lee Hammond from the stad
ium at p m. The grand parade
starts at p. M, and at the witching
hour Of the popular masked bail
will start the revelry in earnest
After that-Loco Lane and the Del
uge. F% 2 5% Bss -
Against One Language Rule.
Frederick c. Fisher has written an
article in the Philippine Law Review
against the rigid rule of English only
in the courts He says in part:
Under the law as it now stands the
use of Spanish in our courts will be
debarred, in theory, at the end of the
present year. l say, in theory, be
cause practically things are bound t.
go on much as they do now 1t is no
at all likely that any of the oldel
members of the Filipino bench ant
bar who have not learned English VI
to the present will have done so b,
the time the new rule is to take et
feet. Consequently, it will be but
barren privilege to the American law
yer to be permitted to file his plead
ings and briefs in the English Ian
guage, with the knowledge that tn
Judge who is supposed to read then
does not understand a word of tina
language. And that is precisely tn
situation as a matter of fact, for wit
one or two exceptions none of tn
Filipino judges have a reliable reat
ing knowledge of English, The resuI
will be that the American attorney
after the first of next year, in severe
of the lower courts, will be compelle
to file one set of pleadings and brief
in English, to comply with the Law
and another in Spanish so that tn
Judge may know what he is trying
say. He will have to do the sam
thing in the Supreme Court if he d.
sires the judgment of the full benc
on his case"
Provincial Bank Bill.
The project of the Association
Economica de Filipinas for establis
y.-Y 10 a NJ