The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-12

evolve . honog~aeces people c. Co
determine. when the tazs arrives.
Their own destiny. We are seeking
70 arouse . nattoaai spirit and lot. a
under the cider colonial theory. 90
suppress such . spirit The character
o. tie work We have been eolng Ii
keeniy recognized - the Orient and
our success thzs far followed with Tot
q Little enyy By those who. initiating
the ssrne policy. End themselves aAnp
cred By conditions grown up In ear
Har days. and Under different theories
Of Administration But our work In
far from done Our duty 20 the FIJI
psnos In far from discharged. Over
half . million Filipino students are
now In ths Philippine schools helping
20 mold the men OF the future into .
Homogeneous people. but there sttil
remain more than O million Filipino
children O. school age Jet 70 % reach
ed Freed from American control the
migrating forces Of Q common edu-
cation and Q common language Win
cease and the educational system Nov
we'll started viii slip back into tnem-
cheney and disorder.
An enormous increase In the CON-
merciL development Of the Islands
has been made since they were vtr>
tua11y granted full access 70 our mar
ksts three years ago. With svsry pros
psct Of fncrsastng tsvelopment and
diversified industries. Frssd from
American control such development
In bound 10 decline. Every obssrvsf
speaks Of the great progress In public
works for ths benefit Of the f1liptnos.
Of harbos improvements, Of road and
railways. Of irrigation and artssian
wells. public buildings. and better
means Of Communication. But large
parts Of thu Islands are still unrsach-
ed. sttr1 even unsxplorsd. roads and
railways are needed In many parts.
Irrigation systems are still to be in
stalled and wells to be driven Whole
villages and towns are still without
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
Asiattc cholera. has found the cause
of and a cure for beriberi. has segre-
gated the lepers. has helped to make
Manila the most healthful city in the
Orient, and to free life throughout the
whole archipelago from its former
dread diseases, is nevertheless incom-
plete In many essentials Of perma-
hence In sanitary policy. Even more
remains to be accomplished. II freed
from American control sanitary prog
ress is bound to be arrested and all
that has been achieved likely to be
lost
II the task we have undertaken In
higher than that assumed by other
nations. it's accomplishment must de-
mand even more patience. We must
not forget that we found the F1lipinos
wholly unframed in government. Up
to our advent all other experience
sought to repress rather than encour-
age political power. It takes long
time and much experience to ingram
political habits Of steadiness and EN-
cheney. Popular self-government ulti-
matsly must rest upon common habits
Of thought and upon q reasonably de-
velopsd pubic opinion. No such foun-
cations for self-government, let alone
Independence, are now present in the
Philippine Islands. Disregarding even
their racial heterogeneity and the lack
of ability to think as a nation, 1t is
sufficient to point out that under lib
eral franchise privileges only about 8
per cent. Of the Fflipinos vote and
only per cent. of the people are said
to read the public press. To confer
Independence upon the Filipinos now
is, therefore, to subject the great mass
Of their people to the dominance of an
oligarchical and. probably. exploiting
minority. Such a course will be as
cruel to those people az 1t would be
shameful to US.
Our true course 10 to pursue stead
lily and courageously the path we have
thus far followed; to guide the FIJI
pinos into self-sustaining pursuits: to
continue The cultivation of sound poll
teal habits through education and 20
litfcal practice; to encourage the d.
versif1cation Of Industries, and to real
lie the advantages of their industrial
education by conservatively approved
cooperative methods. at once check
ing the dangers Of concentrated
wealth and building up q sturdy. In
dependent citizenship.
Regulation Of Water Power.
There are pending before congress
. large number OF bills proposing to
grant privileges Of erecting dams for
the purpose Of creating water power
In our navigable rivers. The tendency
Of these bills has brought out an I'M
portant defect In the existing general
dam act That act does not, In my
opinion, grant sufficient power to the
federal government In dealing with
the construction Of such dams to exact
protective conditions In the interest