Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-11

Ing AT K LIBERTY
know and APPRECIATE the best thjug:
| in dramatic art.
The presentation of Les NMser
aides" requires two hours and one
h.n There are nine reels. ard the
! great French drama is shown as clear
| ~ as if the actors were on the stage
| in form instead Of shadow. Two high
power machines throw the pictures or
the screen clearly and distinctly
| There is no dimming or blurring Of
| the characters and each scene is $
nn:sted that the gripping story can
lie followed Just as understandings
| by one who has not read the book as
J by those who have.
q lean Vatican is the hero OF the
drama. As the gripping story unfoldS
itself interest increases and does not
lag throughout the entire presenta
.tjGn The scenes are. laid in and
around Paris. the characters are tax
on by the best French motion artists
OF the country where the art of pan
! tomime has been developed to its
highest point The scenic effects are
perfect
Because of the complete preSenta
! tim Of the reductions being filmed
! BY Manager Blair only one perform
dnce is being given each evening with
J oh; q sd
and Saturday OF each weeR.
not quite so unanimous against fur
Their extension CT the. privileges of
Self-gOvefnmeEt TO the Fiiipinos. They
are equally as unanimous in renCunc-
ing and with much vehemenCe the
administration at Washington and ita
local representatives at Manila
Americans Denounce Administration.
"Th"se peel do not know what il
good for them" said Manila mer'
chant. "ICok what we have done for
them and how ungTateful the wretChes
are. They want to take the govern
mpnt into their own hands. 1t will
run our business And he nlively
added: Last year made 40 per cent
on my investment"
The newspapers reflect the dis"Ord
ant views. The American Journals
are filled with denunciatiOn of Govern
or-general Harrison's policy, though
his gracious personality has won him
friends even among his opponents,
while the Filipino press is correspond.
ingly laudatOry Don Martin OcampO,
the leading Filipino journalist, said:
"YCu will net find the portrait of Will
sen or Bryan or Clark in any Amer-
can newspaper office. but only in the
Fi'iDino" And he spoke the truth. =
The editor Of the leading American
daily said: You ask Filipino, the
ordinary fellow, anywhere:
Are you better off than before the
Americans came?'
"He Will reply, yes
Ask him if he is happier under
American rule and he will reply he is
Then ak him if he wants indie
pendence and he will answer in the
affirmative also. ....<. ......
He doesn't know what's good for
him" ..-.
The question Of the duty of the
United States in regard to these
islands and their peoples resolves it.
self into whether or net they are ca
pable of governing themselves and
maintaining law and order as an indie
pendent nation. If they can do this,
even these persons in Manila most
violently opposed to self-government
would agree. though with reluctance,
that it should be granted.
There il general fear in and out Of
the islands that some foreign nation
probably JaDan. would seize the arch
ipelago if absolute independence was
given to the Fflipinos. For this reason
the large majority of the natives who
have studied the question favor the
fullest measure Of self-gOvernment
possible under an American protector
ate or naturalization which would be
a guarantee against foreign aggres
sion. '... ....-|.
Eve can then work cut our own sal
vatiOn.' said an eminent Filipino,
though we will not expect to be
spared what Governor Harrison spoke
of as the rude apprentice years which
other peoples have suffered on their
way to libery.
Revolt in the Air.
A monument to Jose Rial, the Fill
pinO scholar. statesman, patriot, stands
en- the Luneta at Manila near the spot
where he was murdered under forms
of Spanish law. The monument was
hidden away in rubbish heap in the
days of revolt against the Spaniards.
The Americans placed the monument
upon its present pedestal in admira-
ton for the great apostle of Filipino
liberty. 1t would be curious paradox
if the new Filipino republic should be
for freedom to be nation,
to battle around this statue at the en-
trance to Manila against the Ameri-
can republic which raised and set the
statue here. For there is one argu-
ment for larger self-government, for
genuine independence, that must not
be overlooked. though it is only whis-
pered in Manila streets. Unless a
long step is. taken and definite prom
jSp made an inS11rroctipD ic at hand