The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-13
NATIVE FILIPINO
EXPRESSES VIEWS
DELFIN RALNALDO GIVES OPIN-
IONS ON SELF-GOVERNMENT
FOR HIS PEOPLE.

A series of addresses have been
delivered recently before gatherings
of the faculty of the University of Ida
| no, at the University Club, usually by
some member of the faculty, the dis
cussions having been confined for the
most part to the deliberations of the
disarmament conference. At the last
meeting the principal speaker was
Delfin Raynaldo, a Filipino, who is
taking advanced work at the univer-
sity. The address, which is repro
duced in part, is of interest as fur
nishing the views of native of the
| islands on the question of self-goyern-
ment:
when the bell of peace sounded the
close of the greatest catastrophe that
has ever befallen the world there
came an echo which brought the cries
and supplications of those who have
fought and died for humanity; from
the no-man's land, where brothers
and enemies one after another have
fallen and made their mute recon
Citation; from their solemn graves
there came those united incessant
pleading voices filling every human
ear with those sincere and earnest
prayers asking their surviving broth
ers to come closer together in har-
mony and to realize that after all we
have sprung from one family and
should therefore no longer settle con-
troversies if they ever arise by the
horrible roar of cannOns but by diplO
macy which leads to mutual UNDER
standing.
In Lincolns Gettysburg speech, he
said in part, ct is better that we
dedicate our lives to the tasks that
these men have SO nobly begun in or
der that they shall not have died in
vain" One of the greatest men who
had the same feeling was our eX-
President Wilson He felt the appeals
Of those who died for the world and
the feeble screams of those children
and women, innocent victims of the
God of War. He felt that as a true
American citizen, brought up and
tutored under the influence of a
democratic atmosphere, it was his
duty and the duty of this country to
bring about Immediately a reconcilia-
ton among the different nations of
the world and to establish a home
where each would become a member, |
and where harmony, peace, and just |
ice should prevail; a home where the /
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should not be oppressed but their
pected Unfortunately all of these
which even caused his physic-
al decline, were in vain.
After the disapproval of the same,
the people bowed down their heads,
in great disappointment This of
course did not lose our hopes, for we
have full faith in the sincerity of the
American people-it only meant to us
that that glorious day would not come
as soon as we expected had the
covenants of the league been ratified
by Congress.
Senator BOrah In the Breach
The failure of the United States to
,atify the covenants of the League of
Nations made the League total fail
ire But this only increased the feel
ng of the need for the same move
nent because the world visualizes the
approach of the clutches of another
var which probably would cause the
inal destruction and the ruination of
he whole Civilization. There came
orth man, one of those who even
strongly opposed the sO-called Will
oman IdealiSm, with whom has Origi- !
lated the idea of the possibilities of
alling the powers together to discuss
he limitation of ornaments. Senator i
'orah, a man Idaho is proud Of |
ought and succeeded in the senate. /
his plan was developed by President /
Harding and finally it came into a /
eality, and from present indications Il
seems as if the conference will be Il
success. II
Since this conference will not con- Il
inc it's discussions to the limitation II
ornaments, but will also treat the i
roblems of the Far East, there comes L
} us Filipinos this question, Twill the L
difference also consider the interests X
the ten million and a half freedom X
wing people of my country? More
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