The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-02-01
TAFT ATTACKS
AUTONOMY BILL
Couples Denunciation Of Democratic
Policy With Eulogy Of
Mckinley

washington, Jan. ~ - PRESIDENT
Taft, in his farewell speech to the
Ohio Society of Washington tonight,
vigorously attacked the bill now pen
ding in Congress proposing autono-
my and independence in eight years
for the Philippines.
rs 1t possible asked the presi.
dent, that the Democratic party is
going to reverse the policy that ha
indicated itself by ten years expe-
rience merely for the purpose of con
forming to the cobwebbed plans of
forgotten platforms? Will they not,
before they take such an irretriev.
able step, obtain reliable information
as to the conditions that obtain in
the islands? This issue has been rel.
egated to the limbo of free silver or
the narrow doctrine of states rights.
Those who continue to give out their
lucubrations in the Philippines are
now less than those who expect to
attend the next inaugural ball"
Speaker Clark who followed the
President declined to debate with
him the Democratic policy OF indie
pendence for the PHILIPPINES.
Il am not going to debate the ques-
ton of Philippine independence with
President Taft" said Mr.. Clark Il
have no inclination to make Phil
ippine speech and I'm not going to
either. ! wish We were out OF there
in as good shape as We were when
we got in. But according to the Dem
ocratic platform which didn't
make-we are committed to a policy.
believe that when a man gets Of
/ fee on a platform he should live up
religiously to the planks that are in
that platform.
/ President Taft began his address
with an eulogy of President McKin-
ley. From praise Of Mckinley he
turned to the Philippines and said
in part:
After three administrations and
more have passed, and after two
successive presidential campaigns
with silence on the Philippines as
the issue, the country Is asked to
make change. We are asked to
meet recrudescence Of opposition
to our Philippine policy Snd L
threat to turn back the hands OF
time; to reverse the verdict of a de
cade and to give up all our achieve
ments for new experiment, which
can only result in confusion and hu
initiation, and involve us in interna
tlonal complications and bring us
again with damaged prestige to al
abandonment of that policy.
Those OF us who, by reason OF
our information and experience be
lieve that reversal of that policy
now will lead to national humiliation
and embarrassment should not keel
our mouths closed, because We have
right to appeal to those who are
coming into power in the next ad
ministration-the executive and the
legislators to inform themselves
well before they depart course
which has been frought with the ut
most benefit to the people of the Phi
tppine islands. The Philippine isl
ands are not yet ready for self gov
eminent, and no influence could be
more detrimental upon their future
than the enactment of the measure
now pending in the House of Repre-
scntatives providing for a change in
their government.
Senators Burton and Pomerene and
Representative Cannon also made ad
dresses, Justice Day of the supreme
court was toastmaster, and Justices
McKenna, Lurton, and Lamar were
among the guests at the speakers
table.