The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03

ton was shown with great emphasis Just
the minute that Mr. Bryan was defeated.
From that time on the insurrrctiun In the
mountains and elsewhere became prac-
tically nil. and the number OF guns that
we're surrendered ran up into the tho..
sands in the few months that followed the
defeat 90 Mr.. BrJan In 1900. and then
we went out to organize the provinces.
And then the Federal party became Il
power and the Federal party leaders went
a"ourd with US az we organized the
provinces afd promised them peace and
Il was n 'r-cat step toward the producing
% q pearpf,ii condition IT, che islands"
~Nfy dd the defca, Of Mr. Bryan
tape an, ers-" on the Instruction. asked
Senate iapp''t
"Ber1use they were mali taini ~ the
Instruction with tie idea that II Mr.
Bryan were elected they would he In a
position to show that they were a party
OF force and could take at once the coun-
try which Mr. Bryan and the party at
that time proposed TO turn over to them"
replied Mr. TAFT
And It in really have got to say
so--the Democratic promise Of independ-
ence which has been the greatest obstacle
to tEe carrying out of our plan ever since ;
and II IL what IL now returning to plague
the party itself when II II In power in
this respect. that they Cthe Filipinos) look
ud'h W lIbNf plOlllhtN LOT us 10 Keep
them, and their politicians are very quick
to call their attention to them"
Ricarti's Agitation.
Mr.. Taft does not regard the present
Ricarti revolution az serious in itself
In his opinion, Ricarti Is merely a buga-
boo, a professional revolutionist IL is
the conditions that made Ricarti activi-
ties possible that are important, accord
ing to Mr.. TAFT
one member OF the committee asked
Mr.. Taft II the Philippines are Al for self
government. In reply Mr.. Taft told OF a
committee Of Filipinos who visited him
when he was Governor General They
wanted to prove they were NJ for self
government
Well YOU cannot" was Mr. Taft's re-
ply. He added that the Filipinos who
are educated-about 10 per cent only
did not understand self-government. They
had been trained az aristocrats II they
obtained independence and ever were able
to set up stable government IL would
utterly ignore the rights Of 80 per cent.
IN the sense In which we understand
those rights TO exist"
His Chief Trouble.
Mr. Taft said the great trouble he had
when In the Philippines was not in giving
making them understand what their rights
we're
H. said he, "a man is so steeped IN
ignorance and so subject to the cdcique
IN the ueighboThood that he will 20 and
murder somebody without the slightest
conjunction, relying for Justification on
the order of his cdciqUc, why what can
you expect from him In associating his
own rights"
MIR Taft told hnv L'iIiro ,,,t1aro., 800.
OF the leading lawyers IA the island. had
come to him when he. TAFT, was Governor
General bringing with him an old Tag
alog. The cN-Presldent added
when this old man came in he handed
a petition in Spanish and so far az |
ngure 1t out 1t contained recital that
ms son had been six years in B!libed
prison that he was arrested and he had
never been tried. and the old man wanted
To know what ! could do. He had heard
that the commission had come TO helm
out the Flipinos. and he wanted 70 Know,
II We could not help him
We'll. | turned To CaIdcron and said
10 him. The writ of hahcas corpus Is In
force mere. II YOU viii tust present n
petition for the writ In any OF the courts
IN Manila YOU can get this man out II
Wrat he says is true
Wei. said Calderon. what is a peti-
ton Tor writ ~ haheas corpus
This lawyer had copied the Mexican
Constitution and the Federal Constitution
and had helped to make up the Consti,u.
ton of Malatos but he did not have any
practical knowledge ~ those processes
which are the palladium OF individual
right and liberty
And so ] drafted FOR him the form OF
a petition for a writ uf habeas corpus and
he took II into court ana lie got his man