Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-18
CONDITIONS IN ISLANDS
CONDITIONS IN ISLANDS
ARE VERY BAD.
Charges That Graft. Encouragement,
and Contempt for Everything
American in Evidence.

Congressman G. B. Miller, OF Du-
luth, Mnn.t recently returned from
the Philippines, brings this sweeping
charge against the government with
reference to the Philippines:
That anti-American feeling among
the natives has been encouraged and
loyalty discouraged by elevation Of
disturbers to Offices.
That past achievements Of Ameri-
cans have been discredited and the
natives given scant respect for Amer
|ican people and institutions.
That graft is rampant among the
native Office holders, who have stolen.
public lands and rif1ed mails.
That the great sanitary work OF.
Americans has been undone and CON
ditions menacing to health again ex-
list.
That wholesale pardons given $hy
Political influence have ruined the
penal colony experiment.
That news, especially from the
Moro provinces, is censored and true
conditions conceded by the governs
ment.
That Filipinos have been put over
the Moros, who protest in vain that
Ithey want only white men in author
lity over them.
That business is stagnant and cap
lital is leaving the islands.
What Miller Says.
The Minneapolis Journal deVotes
several columns to an interview with
1.-THE Duluth congressman. He AYERS
that two years of democratic rule in
the Philippine islands has brought
about ?complete governmental cha
os." Congressman Miller spent sew
eral weeks last summer in the islands
as an independent investiator, and
will make sensational and detailed
statements about conditions in the
oriental dependency of Uncle Sam in
a set speech on the floor Of congress
Yearly in the coming session.
Gives Charges in Detail.
In previous interviews Mr. Miller
has outlined the things he found In
the Philippines. His statement, au-
lthorized for publication today, goes
into details aud givs many counts in
his Indictment against the rule OF
Governor General Francis Burton
Harrison and his colleagues.
ut is difficult for n to speak
calmly who has investigated condi
tons throughout the Philippines
said Mr.. Miller, 'and it will be ever
more difficult for the American people
!, to believe the truth respecting con
ditions there.
is Years' Effort Wasted
From a generous IMPULSE the Am
erican people started out to give tht
Filipinos the best government Amer
lean genius was capable of devising
and at the same time to educate then
and train them for self-goyernment
Fifteen years Of efforts produced tire
: mendous success in all respects save
~perfecting the capacity for self-gov
ernment. These years of experience
clearly revealed that perfected capac
ity for self-government, instead oi
being realized in years, would require
generations. However. advancement
would be constant and evolution un
faltering.
: Destroyed by Harrison.
. Then came the regime Of Governor
General Harrison. Armed with Bry
ans Philippine theories and misinfor
nation and personally ignorant q
Filipinos and everything Philippine
Harrison landed in Manila In October
1913. / was there when he arrived
and Witnessed the greet outpouring o.
natives who joyously inaugurated hin
/ was here this summer and Instant,
observed a complete change In thu
general attitude Of the F%flipinos. For
merly all was rejoicing; now every
where the situation is strained; sus
picious, ominous at times, arising
those tragic moments when ferc'
blows are received and given.
No Government Left.
AT once the governor general pro
ceeded to knock down the govern
mental structure. Not Attila Of TIL
Huns o Theodore OF the Goths eve