The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-02-10
ARMY oBsERvER,s VIEW OF PHILIPPINE QUESTION.

that tremendous Injustice would be done the various races
Philippines by forcing what would practically be mesizo rule
pressed article in the January number Of the North American
Review Captain Shelton preces his criticism Of the Fpnos by
stating five Of the largest Islands of the group
for three and has been for five in close touch with Phil
ippine affairs and necessarily student Of them 100
81 like the Fpnos and number of them friends he
says 81 myself their Friends and speak their friend when
say that they areaekmg now ana IN lne
Republican FORMS and that left themselves chaos will
sooner or later inevitably result The military observer bases his
principally that the Fpno Malayan
and tropical people, and no where have tropical peoples yet ear
ed selfgovernment Most of them indeed still sub
ect races thought wide Of anything different
Again. excepting the aboriginal Negrtos vanishing stock with
out future the mass of Fipnos pure nearly Mayan
As item of heredy there in history whore the Malay
Of himself has been able to create government or has done aug
to advance the of civilization Yet in justice interested
here different order of Maayan peoples than the general
Excepting the pagan tribes and the Moros seveneghhs of
the inhabitants Of the philippines or nearly seven million in nun
Der Christians who for than three centuries have been
under the ueage of Western Christian civilization is this great
majority that meant ordinarily By the term Fpnos and is
this body that concerns
Much has been written of the Fpnos during the last twenty
years much Of the testimony favorable Most Of the Amer
who 1898 have visited the islands speak well of them They
and hospab devoted their families Taken young
they easily led easily educated and develop under training
They Well led they marked
oyatto persons rather than denied the character
c Of reachery imputed the Malay Well led Also they have
shown marked physical courage
Now these all desirable qualities but they sufficient Of
themselves to capacity for separate nationality much less
for maintenance Of popular govemment people easily led
it is true be easily governed The United States since the
governing the Fpnos But easy control of peoples easily led
dependent the number and Of leaders People easily
led in direction easily led in another and with the develop
ment Of different and equally powerful leaders division and
responding difficulty in control might readily follow Generosity,
morality hospitality and the other qualities
themselves signify capacity for progress econtro For lead
initiative And unfortunately has testified the possession
of and initiative by the Flipino No eanhe Fpnos
do not possess them; they lack them utterly
But the lack Of qualities may be said asserted
established Exceptions to ALL Rial the Filipino martyr
Aguado insurrecton the crippled Mabni his min
lister and ntelect Bonaeio iterae but powerful
the Katpunan who died because in Agunados Antonio
Luna minister of the Maoos government the
reason Sixo Lopez the nsugent emssay the
States Aree chief of the islands Aeano attorney gem
era Speaker 0mena of the assembly, Manuel Quezon the active
commissioner representing the Philippines in the congress of the
United States Agrpay the leader Of the Philippine Church. Sunni
long Legarda de avera Linn Mapa all prominent in public life
in literature in medicine laval these and Others have revealed
and initiative different directions And there
natyebo outside Of public life and the Learned professions
gagged in agriculture industry that have shown these
Qualities finely in their own lines Of work Assredy energy and
initiative are essential to independent existence but how the
face OF these notable examples it possible deny their
sion to the Fpnos2 The simple nothing against
the nybor named and all the others that might be named to
that they notwithstanding for the nos since they them
seyeare not Fpnos This the fundamental fact of blood that
tells the whole story OF the Philippines These and native
born that has reached distinction in line that has Of him
self attained medoc are mestizomixed of blood The strain
hat has gwen them the desire to advance to struggle to succeed
is not Malay not Filipino; j is foreign
II we turn the islands adrf we leave them the dominance
OF few thousand Chinese parbood will they attempt give
the Fpnos future this wayf 1t does likely The
they attempt to find future in other for the puebood
natiyei to raise him their standard socially and poca1
equally unlikely The mestzo despes the pure of blood
only the mixed What them will be
troll first of ALL then class hatred and thenchaos -
Captain Shelton celebrates this view by going into the details
of the Maos established by Agnado which was
as proved by the records of that seized by the Amer
republican only In fact it
be ogarchy The who controlled in that
be the men or men of the same class who would control in what
independent government might be the Fpnos
time in the future 1t would be group of the govern
ing mesos and nohg was further from their thoughts thar
the maintenance Of government that should admit to equality will
them, either socially politically the voee of the Fiji
Pine peoples - - .t#> H., ~ ="
"A government by them today would be different For 81
long it lasted would be than oligarhy
absolute and selfish million FpnOs blood
their training and their practise establish this Neither the
fare OF the Filipino pride preserved
by helping TO such an end - -. .#..rs.. w..