The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-12
FILIPINOS FIND
WALL ST. ORDERS
VETO OF FREEDOM
Say Exploiters Dictate
Veto of Plebiscite
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press.)

WASHINGTON, April 1l.-Presi-
dent Coolidge's veto of the Filipino
independence referendum bill, passed
by the Filipino legislature over the
veto of Gov General Wood, is met
by Resident Commissioners Guavara
and Gabaldon, who speak for their
people in congress, with denial of his
arguments and defiance of his pur-
pose. They say the independence
movement will only be made the more
serious by his denial of their right
to vote on the issue. Moreover, they
suggest that this act of official ar
rogance will bring into closer SYM
pathy the peoples of all Asia, now
led by the Chinese in throwing off
western imperial control.
First Veto.
Coolidge's veto is the first ever
given by president of the United
States to an act of the Philippine
Legislature.
Guevara replied that the Coolidge
veto robs the Filipino people of the
right of petition to the government
of the United States, which was the
object of the plebiscite. 1t shows,
moreover, he said, that Coolidge docs
not care to find out the true senti-
ment to the Filipino people with re-
gard to independence, despite the fact
that this government has been listen
ing to charges made by few people
here in the United States that the
Filipinos do not want independence.
"In word, the veto means that the
government of the United States
cares to listen to petitions of the few,
but does not care to listen to petit
ton from 100000 Filipinos.
Imperialistic Designs.
II believe that this veto expresses
the policy of the government of the
United States to combine with the
powers in their imperialistic designs
in the Far East. The veto is of course
part of the policy of these big
powers in the Far East. 1t will have
the effect Of drawing the peoples of
the Far East into closer sympathy"
Replying to Coolidge's claim that
the independence movement is due to
a greed for mere political power at
the cost Of the economic welfare of
the Islands, Guevara said that mod
ern economic history proves that the
greatest economic development has
accompanied the greatest degree Of
Political. freeSoA, and independence.
Even Nicaragua, he said, Shows
wonderful economic progress without
the benefit of free trade with the
United States"
He added that Philippine trade is
suffering from the artificial condi-
tons imposed upon it by American
control; its trade would naturally
flow in other directions tending to
its increase if it were free.
Wall Street Bidding.
Gabaldon ironically observed: "The
president attempts to point out the
unattractiyeness of an independent
form of government. But can he
name one South American or any
other republic in the world today, pos
sessing the independence that he pic
lures as so dangerous and embarrass-
ing, that is willing to give it up?
independence seems to be
fairly satisfactory to those peoples
now enjoying it.
President Coolidge's action is not
in the interest of the American peo-
pie, whose sons must do the fighting
il America becomes involved in the
Orient through retention of the
Philippines, but in the interest of
Wall Street financiers who have their
millions invested there"
Gabaldon, before his recent return
from Manila, made speech in. which
he pointed to the Chinese revolution
as force which was rallying the
peoples of the Far East for their
mutual protection