Bisbee daily review., 1921-08-16


 Americans and America has dwindled, and the Philippine government grown laxer as native politicians have grad ually taken into their own hands con- trol over insular affairs. They heatedly ineist things cannot go on as they are lgoing, and co-inci- ldent with the Wood-Forbes investiga- 9 ton now under way, there, is consid- cradle talk of an early tightening up" of the alleged loose parts in the islands government machinery.
 Ex-President Taft's advocacy of abolition of the Philippine senate and a return to the former, or commission, plan of upper house, widely discuss ed here, no doubt had something to do with such talk.
 Jones Bill BIunder
 But the talk goes much further than that.
 The preamble oi the Jones bill, passed in 1916, promising independ- ence to the Filipinos as soon as they can establish stable government or their own, was a colossal blunder in the opinion of Americans in business in the islands, and should be re- pealel.
 The most influential Americans in the country agree with former Presi1 dent Taft They ape convinced that for the gcod-; of the Filipinos them selves more Americans should be ap- pointed to office in the Philippines and hope to see General Wood and Forbes report to President Harding along these lines.
 They want a restoration of the old order Filipinos oppose the old or der, tooth and nail.
 Filipinos In Office
 The administration of Governor General Francis Burton Harrison, President Wilson's oppointee, is con- monly referred to out here as the new era"
 To Americans both Harrison and his new era" are anathema. To Filipinos both are benign, the begin t.,ngs of the fulfillment of a pledge.
 Under the new era"-1913-1921- declared Captain H. l.. Heath, presi- dent of the American Chamber of Commerce here, Americans and Filip- inos grew apart until there was left but a shred of the cordiality and re- spect which had been generated by over decade of work for the better ment of the country and it's people"
 This Filipinos deny.
 Under the new era says Leandro H. Fernandez, assistant professor of history in the University of the Phil ippines, "a more friendly and more harmonious relationship grew up be- hn
 The New History
 Professor Fernandez has written school history of the Philippine ls- lands. It has been adopted as the official textbook for the public schools. Page 3O1 says this:
 'The rapid Filipinization of some of the more responsible government offices also began during Governor Harrisons administration,
 During the former administrations there was a feeling, shared in by most Filipinos, that conservatism prevail ed, and that too few Filipinos were given positions of responsibility
 Since 1913 the policy of Filipini- zation has been carried out more strictly. Many Filipinos have been appointed to the minor as well as to the more important government of fees, including the directorships of bureaus"
 lns and Outs
 "Filipinizing the Philippines" quite naturally aroused the ire of Ameri cans It threw them out of political jobs in the islands and it put Filip- iinos in their places.
 The Fernandez textbook. however. teaches the youth of the Philippines that this was what was to be expect ed from d Tight-living country like America.
 The United States" says his school history. .ias once more proved her e.l to be magnaninlous and just
 "Only the 'politicos.i Americans lere told me, want independence.