New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-01

with the tremendous Notifications we
have at the mouth of Manila Bay IT
should be possible for a long time to
prevent their approaching Manila by
the sea. The possession OF the city
would be somewhat Of an empty honor
with the mouth of the bay plugged, and
no means of communication. Any line
Of communication that could be MAIN
tanned would be vulnerable to attack.
owe certainly need at some point IN
the Far East a naval station for pro-
tecting our citizens or carrying war
into the country of some enemy. IL
would be much better for US to be keep
ing n fleet of Japan's in Far Eastern
waters than to have the fleet modest
US on our Pacific Coast or our island
possessions in the Pacific. In addl-
ton we need a navy to protect our
trade. With a proper base in the Phil
ippines, | do not believe that Japan,
or any other country which could not
drive us off the seas, could maintain
an armed force on land and continue
military occupation
Wild People in Danger.
"Now. il is a fact" said DIR. Worccs-
ter in a final plea to the committee,
"and ] beg you to believe me when |
say so. that there has been and Is very
deep bitterness between the lowland
people living in proximity to the terri
tory of the wild people. | ought not
to use that word wild but ] have N
mind now those tribes that really are
wild and have made mischief IN the
past by thieving from the lowlanders
and by killing them, and making life
a burden for them generally. There
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for US TO indulge in charges in con-
nection with this. or attempt to fix the
responsibility for il; there has been
blame on both sides; the lowlan1
people have imposed on the hill peo-
pie, and the hill people have taken
revenge by bloody violence on the low
land people.
1--WE have gone though the wild
country; we have opened it up with
our roads and our trails; we have es-
tablished relations of the utmost
friendliness with practically all Of
those wild tribes, with the single eX-
ception Of some OF the Moros in the
district of Mindanao and Sulu. We
have done it practically without blood
shed. The number of men killed in
the suppression of head-hunting Is ut
terly insignificant. In dealing with
people practically identical with those
whom Japan has sought 20 exterminate
in the mountains of Northern Formosa
we have gotten on without any consid-
cradle amount Of bloodshed.
"The result that we have obtained for
civilization in view of that work Is i'm
perilled at the present moment There
is "a plan now on foot to destroy the
governmental system which has pro-
duced those results in Northern Luzon;
to break up the mountain province,
with its Capitalization, into a series of
provinces, and to annex the larger part
of that territory into the neighboring
Christian provinces.
"Now, unless that work is to result
in ignominious failure, it is necessary
that control over it shall be exercised
from Washington, and there is one way
in which it can be done from Wash
ington under your proposed system,
and only one, and that is TO have an
administrative official in the Philippines
i would call him a lieutenant gov
ernor-for the non-Christian tribes,
who would be appointed by the Presi-
dent, confirmed by the Senate of the
United STATES, and under whose admin
istrative control the work of the non
Christian tribes of the Philippines
would be carried on"