The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-02-03

Representative, and the president III
ally came to their support with the
result that a measure has been passed.
General Wood Staging
Another Fiasco.
The Filipinos have their spokesman
in Washington, and these men, in con-
gress, and in their educational propa-
panga, have jumped onto the so-called
Wood Forbes neutrality-suspicious. re-
port with all feet. When General
Wood and former Governor Forbes
went to the Philippines in March,
everyone knew that they would make
report that would "stalf the indie
pendence movement for awhile, at
least. To be fair with these gentle
men, that was what they were sent
for.
Commissioner Gabaldon is giving
the widest possible publicity to the
position of his people. 1--WE want in
dependence" he declared on the floor
of the house of representatives the
other day, 'but we are not knocking
at the doors of congress with any Bit
terness in our hearts. But to prove
to us that independence is the greatest
blessing of mankind, as you have suc-
, ceeded in doing, and that it is the one
thing every patriotic citizen is justi-
fled in dying to obtain, and then to
deny us that independence, would sure
ly be cruel accomplishment"
The Filipinos are handling General
Wood very respectfully, but they have
punched his report" so full of holes
that the General stands no more show
in the final resume Of the subject
which eventually must be reached by
the American congress, than he did in
his attempts to pick off the Republican
nomination a la ,Newberry in the Chi
cago convention last year.
We have just had great interna-
tional conference in Washington in
which many nations have voiced their
grievances, and one needs only to re-
gard the upheaval of opinion in SYM
pathy with China to understand that
the heart of the people who believe in
democracy" still beats honestly and
periodically for people who are am
bilious to rule and govern themselves.
The Philippine problem belongs to the
American nation, and there is no ques-
ton but what we must meet it fairly.
The Filipinos are making their own
wishes known, and it is apparently
true, as they state, that the selfish
commercial interests that have grown
up in the islands, and that are main
ly directed by Americans, are OBJ
structing their progress towards self
government. The Filipinos admit
that the American government has
been their benefactor; but they are
pardonably proud of their remarkable
progress. and very >insistent for recog-
milton of the fact that their advance
ment along educational, industrial and
political lines, must not be swept aside
by mere thing like report" even
though it happens to be made by
man who has attained distinction by
reason of presidential preference un~
der two administrations. They chal-
lenge General Woods report as opin-
donated and lacking in a true presen-
tation of the facts" Congress does
not need to be told that the Wood
Forbes report teens with statements
that are contradictory of the condi-
tons reported by some of the ablest
men in the senate and the house
members of both parties, who have
personally gone to the Philippines and
made reports" that were not in
spired. The Wood report involves
the future status in the world of ten
million people in the Philippines-apd,
as usual, General Wood is not con-
vincing.
One is reminded by the Wood
Forbes report of the difinition found