Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-30
GARRISON SHARPLY
CRITiCIZES TAFT
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Filipino people. such an Interpretation
creates an absolutely false impression.
president Taft. when Governor
General OF the Philippine Islands. was
the first one TO announce that the motto
of the American administration was
the Philippines for the rilpinos' He
properly and bitterly resented criti-
cism against him for taking this po-
sition. He constantly stated that this
was the only position which any one.
acting in good faith and with the honor
of his government in his keeping, could
take; that from the very beginning this
was the announced policy of this coun-
try constantly iterated and reiterated
! by the President of this country. by Its
representatives and by its Congress-
No one had SO plainly Get forth az has
President Taft the malicious misrepre-
sensations, the mendacious statements
and tho vicious assaults that proceed
from those in the Philippine Islands
who are not permitted TO exploit the
natives and the country for their own
benefit.
''Presiden; Tart was absolutely JUST
fled in his bitter dcnunciation of these
attacks, which makes /, all the more
aiit'iLlhS 10 !I!lu MN IN exact
y the same conduc, toward those who
are now occupying positions OF trua:
and responsibility in the Philippine
government.
There lately appeared !, series of
articles in q newspaper called the oak
land Tribune. Subsequently. they were
published In "a pamphlet entitled The
Unhappy conditions in the Philippine
/ Islands, by .. Garfield Jones. former
member Of the Philippine Department
OF Education. with an introduction by
eX-President William Howard Taft
former Governor-Cienerilo of the Philip
pines In the introduction, ex-Presi-
dent Taft says:
Fl have read with much interest
Mr.. O. Garfield Jones's article on pres
ent conditions IN the Philippines pub
iished recently in the Oakland Tribune.
1t Is not news to mo.
What he says OF the Generalization
In the present government. due TO the
blind land foolish policy Of President
Wilson and Governor General Harri-
son. is confirmed by every report that
receive from tho islands
Undoubtedly, any SANDER or lying
statement can be confirmed by reports
received from the islands. Mr.. Taft
has pointed out with entire cleurness
where such reports come from He
said. when suffering from similar mis-
representation. speaking with respect
TO tho American press and the three
newspapers in the islands who were
supposed to speak the American public
opinion in the islands. that they were
engaged III:
"Tolding the Filipino up to con
, and giving him no credit whatever for
any virtues. and 81 may be that this
, represents the feeling of the majority
Of the resident Americans in Manila
But can We not. In the end, be Just,
and give TO the whole Filipino people
their due" Should We wish the Fill
p'no people TO Judge of Americans Ivy
the drunken, truculcnt American loaf
crs "ho infest the small towns OF
/ these islands. living on the fruits of
/ the labor Of Filipino women, and give
us more trouble than any other element
| in the islands,
NEWS TO JONES, BECAUSE
HE MADE IT. Up HIMSELF
! Mr. Taft says that what Mr. Jones
states in his article was not news to-
, him 'Mr. TatD. II was unqucstion-
ably news 10 Mr.. Jones, berausc he
made il up himself.
B In a letter written 10 General Nc
3 lntyre. the chief of the bureau OF
!nsula" affairs OF the War Department,
/ dated October &c. 1913. Mr.. Jones says:
When reached Berkeley Angus,
-. Mr.. Loon!is. of the Oakland Tribune,
asked me for an antiadministration
article. told him that had as much.
II not more TO saw for the admins.
'ra;ion than | had against it. But I
gave him what he asked for by making
the article a discussion OF the trent
men, Of Americans in the phjlippipc
Islands
He published this in two SUNDAY
ishucB and * now rcpublishing Il in
rn lie ni.lct Corn, Mn, .....-.I.... L..