The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-08
PHILIPPINE JUNKET
 WILL MEAN FIGHT
 BEFORE CONGRESS
RandaII'S Speech Has Stirred Up Hornets Nest and Is AL , ready Causing Bitter
 Controversy
Fly HUGH W. ROBERTS
 Washington Bureau The Age- Herald

800 Davidson Buidinp
 Washington, September 7-(Special)- Judging from echoes which come to the United States chiefly by the way of Ma nila certain congressman of the United states fell out and quarreled while f1lnketing in the Pacific on the other side of the world. Representative Randall of California, who engineered the junket, and who partook of the hospitality of the F'ilipinos, offended them by declaring them united for self government. He made the point that before any further thought to that project be given prohibit tion should be made to include the Philip pines.
 The Philippine commission Of inoepen- dence, which has headquarterse in Wash- ington, regarding the statement of MT. Randall as insulting, immediately and with great aggression, took issue with his conclusions. Other members of the con- gressional party as if determined not to be made part of the squabble. issued in- terviews in Shanghai condemning Mir. Randall. Representative William S. Ware of Philadelphia denounced the Californian as ''meddler" and characterized his ac- tions as offensive to the people whose hospitality he had accepted" Represen- tative Porter of Pittsburg takes the same view, and says the action of the Cali fornian is a source of great embarrass- ment to the party"
 MT. Randall, in addition to pleading for the extension of prohibition, states that ''the better educated Filipinos, who are not politicians, are unanimous in. their opposition to independence" He adds Of iclo dc ic ctap mated because of lack of capital due to uncertainty as to the status of the future government" His most caustic reference was that of granting of independence 'twould be crime of the first magnl- tude"
 Spokesmen of the Philippine commission to the United States say: "Of course, Mir. Randall and his imperialistic coterie may succeed in their efforts to retard in- dependence. however vigorous the protest of the Filpinos may be. But we fer vently hope that the day will never come when the bond binding the Americans and the F'ilipinos will be only the bond of i'll will and superior force. It should ever be the bond of good will"
 The Congress is on record as favorng the independence of the islands just as soon as they are judged capable of self government. The hornets nest that ttan- dall has stirred up will probably precipi- tate III the next congress q dlScuSSloH as to just when the Filipnos will be pre- pared to work out their own destiny. The press bulletin of the Philippine commits sion, in the September issue. refers to the situation as follows:
 "America and the world are told again and again that independence will be granted to the Filipinos as soon as they are ready for it,
 But the phrase when ready has never been defined It is a nebulous something that may well be stretched to suit the purpose of the movement. 1t may even be used as 9 colak to conceal the sinister design of peADetually anneXng the Philip pines to the United States
 ''When will the Filipinos be ready? Next week or next year? Will it be when every Shylock of the republic has, by his Investments obtained secure financial foothold in the islands? Will it be when they have succeeded in smothering tho Filipino's desire for his countrys indepen- denee by putting it off and off and off?
 "This talk of incapacity and unreadi- ness is self-assertion pure and simple. God, in His wisdom, has never created