The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-07
DEMOCRATIC GAG
. SMOTHERS FACTS
IN THE PHILIPPINES
- g..
Representative Miller Finds In
yestigation of Conditions
Hampered BY Washington
PEOPLE NOT READY
+. FOR INDEPENDENCE
Legislator Will Go Into Congress
Pr With BroadSide For
Jones Bill

Democrats in Congress are going to
experience severe chilIs up and down
their spines and be confronted with the
explanation of an embarrassing situa-
ton after Representative c. c. Miller
(Republican) Of Minnesota says his
mind in the next congress on the Jones
Bin granting Independence to the
Philippines.
Representative Miller is a passenger
in the transport Sherman, which ar
rived, yesterday and in an interview
last night on his investigation of the
Philippine situation, he told a story
which would indicate that the Dem.
oerats face an attack of force and one
that will be hard to meet when the
Jones Bill comes up for consideration.
Four other members o: congress IRE
passengers in the transport, also, IN
route to the mainland after several
months in the Orient. They are Sen.
ator Shafroth of Colorado and Rep.
Iesentatives Clement Brumbaugh of
Ohio, George EdmOnds of Pennsylvania
Bnd Fred A Britten Of Illinois.
Some Concrete Charges
Here is the story Representative
Miller told:
That orders were sent to the
highest officials of the United
States government in the Philip
Yinaa IN nj IN IN
vestigation.
That men in the government ser
vice seen talking to him were re-
moved from Their positions.
That others in the government
seryiyfl wSIq terrorized into re-
maint3d ihcommunicado.
Desp5td this opposition, the congress
man said, he made thorough investi
cation of fhe Islands and found con
ditioAS, that were "highly unsatisfac
tory Hewsidf from many different an
gles.'
The. result of his investigation hi
gave briefly as follows:
1.-THE bulk of talk in the Philip
| pines u for independence. However
the Bulk Of talk comes from the edu
( Gated class which constitutes only
about FIVE per cent of the population
/ The Other ninety five per cent know,
: little OF THE Jones Bill and Little OF
the MOVEMENT for independence, bat
it is detetmitiedly opposed to anything
that would result in the removal ot
the American administration" -
Going into detail on his investiYa
, ton, Representative Miller said:
"My trip to the Philippines was 10
the purpose of seeing the effects. O.
| two years of Democratic administra
ton in the Islands. | had been Their,
two years previously and knew tn
situation as it then existed.
Moros viciously opposed
81 interviewed the Moros to see i
they felt the same way about Philip
! pine independence as formerly. i say
all the rest of the tribes also. With
out a single exception all the non
| Christian tribes and the MOros, VIII,
are today in physical occupation o
at least one half Of the Islands, wer
determinedly and viciously opposed t.
any Christian Filipino control or rul
over them and ask in most emphati
terms that the American government
as far as they are concerned remain
in power.
alt was difficult to get an expires
sion from the majority of the Chris
tian Fihpinos in regard to independ
ence. One of an official chaTaete
would get h. impression that the,
were all for Independence because al
/ with whom one could talk are unani
nous for Independence.
THE average traveller fans to 90
I any impression of what the common
class, which constitutes ninety.fve pc
| cent Of the population, thinks of tn
! situation. / talked with these people
however, and found that about ninety
five per cent of them have only 1
vague idea of what independents,
would mean and many of them hav,
/ the most fantastic ideas of what /
will mean. Some think it will put al
embargo on all their debts; ether
think it will give them free land.
Illustrates For Bill
"The illustrates, or the educateC
class, are openly for independence, bu
! secretly many of them oppose il
realizing the unfitness OF the race O.
whole to govern itself. The net re
suit is that most of the talk is TO
independence, because most of the tall
is made by the illustrates, who ar
the political leaders of the people.
"Conditions in the Philippine Is
lands today makes all talk of indie
pendenee ridiculous and impossible
The Filipinos will not be ready in tn,
present generation to govern them
selves, They are not yet a nation
they have only the foundation of
nation.
Details of what Representative Mil
Ter found and upon which he base
his statement of the situation there a
"highly unsatisfactory, will not b
revealed, he said, until the "righ
time" in Washington.
Representative Miller qualified hi
attitude by saying he did not beI,ev,
in retaining the Philippines against thu
will Of the people in the Islands, an,