Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-14
FILIPINOS FILLED
WITH GRATITUDE
BUT ASK FREEDOM
No Charges of Injustice Made,
No Wrongs Asked Righted,
But Natives Believe Time
Has Come 10 PAT.
ESPECIAL consequences 10 MORNING JOURNAL,

ESPECIAL coPBEspoHnEncE MORNING JOURNAL
Washington, June 10, -- FIT is for
the best interest of both the United
States ana the Philippines that the in
dependence of the latter country be
recognized and established at this
time"
This was the Keynote Of the re-
quest of the Philippine mission 70" an
immediate and final solution of the
Philippine problem, made before a
joint meeting of the Philippine COM
mittee of the senate and the insular
affairs committee of the house when
was called specially to receive the me-
mortal and arguments of the repre-
sentatives of the Philippine govern
ment and the Filipino people
Manuel l.. Quezon, president cf the
Phil ppine senate and chairman Of the
Philippine mission, presented the ne
mortal, and declared +ha, the Filipino
people would be "sorely disappointed"
if Independence was not gYInted soon.
He declared that the Filipino people
had no fear that Japan had designs
Upon the Isl't IDS, and Wa"a perfectly
willing to accept inde9eGocnCa either
with or witRClit a guarantee of pre-
lection by -ha United States, as the
latter mig1t 'hink hes.
Francis Bu'ton HARRISON. fr six
years govern general OF tho Philip
pines, urged hat congr hss carry cut
its promise of Independence il2 said
that the people in his upmlon were
fully able to maintain a stable gov
eminent. He declared tn Nltp!r"
officials were rs intelligen' ami trust
worthy as any men he had ever met
anywn",r ~ re world.
Tkr Iprmur al was "A I ma p"ti.
ti"n that the Soverei5E' of the FIN
tr"n p"Oric ever thc Philippine is.
lands be recognized by the United
States without further delay.
Such step" declared the petit
ton, will insure the maintenance of
firm and lasting friendship between
the two peoples, and will foster the
free development of their commercial
relations in the future; it will place
on a high level the honor of America
by the fulfillment of her repeated
promises to grant freedom to the Fiji
Pine people, and thus perpetuate in
the hearts of the Filipinos the senti-
ments of gratitude and affection
which they now entertain towards
the American people.
at is confidently hoped and be-
lieved that the congress will not suf-
fer this opportunity to pass by at a
time when the whole world is so anX-
ious to establish international rela-
tons upon newer and more solid fouu-
dations of universal justice and lib
ertY. America has constituted her
self, and has justly been recognized,
as the champion of the rights of hui
mainly in the present war, and due in
great measure to her heroic eff
forts and generous aid, the world has
been saved from the thraldom of
greed and oppression, and the rights
of small and weaker nations to exist
in like manner as the great nations,
indicated.
THE recognition of the independ-
ence of the Philippines at this time
will constitute an object lesson to the
whole world in respect p, of the lofty
and altruistic aims which have
prompted America to take part in the
great war, for it will furnish practi-
cal application of the doctrine pro-
claimed by her of giving to all peo-
Piles the right of Characterization.
For the first time in the history
of colonial relations a subject and
alien race comes to ask the severance
of their political connection with the
sovereign nation without recounting
any act of injustice done to them
and demanding reparation therefor;
| but rather with feeling of gratitude
and effection, and with the object
| and for the purpose of strengthening
the bonds of moral and material union
which have bound the two peoples to-
| gether In an endeavor to establish the
reign Of justice, democracy and peace
| in the world.
at is, therefore, our purpose 10
| base our petition not on the injustice
which might be found by reason of
| the forced subsection of the Filipinos,
but on the justice of our claim that
| the national sovereignty of our peo-
| pie be fully recognized, in order that
we may freely fulfill our own mission
and contribute to the spread and es-
| adjustment of democracy and Chris
| tan institutions in the Far East
THE people of the Philippines have
organized a government under the
terms of the Jones law which has beer
In operation for nearly two years and
which has Offered complete evidence
that conditions are ripe for the estab-
lishment of an independent govern.
ment that will he stable and capable
of maintaining law and order, admin
lister justice. promote the welfare OF
all the inhabitants of the islands. and
discharge as well its international OBJ.