The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
FILIPINO LIBERTY BILL
IS VETOED BY HOOVER
Measure for Freedom in
10 Years Criticised by
President.
RESPONSIBLE TO WORLD
independence Steps Should
Be Kept Up, President
Tells Congress.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 49,
President Herbert Hoover to-
day vetoed the Philippines in
dependence bill on the grounds
that it does not fulfill the
United States triple reSpon-
sibility to the American peO-
pie, the Filipinos, and the
world at large.
The Presidents veto message eX-
pressed the view that the United
States must undertake further steps
toward liberation of the islands,
but they should be based upon n
plebiscite to be taken fifteen or
twenty years hence
President Hoover criticised the
Philippines bill, which provided for
independence after ten years OF
preparation under commonwealth
government, on moral, economic and
international grounds, asserting that
it was subject to the most serious
objections"
Responsibility TO World
1--WE have responsibility to the
world that, having undertaken to
develop and perfect freedom for
these people, we shall not by our
course project more chaos into a
world already sorely beset by insta-
bility," he stated.
The present bill fails to fulfill
these responsibilities It invites all
these dangers. 1t does not fulfill
the idealism with which this task
in human liberation was under
taken
He held that the economic life
of the Philippines today, and for
nNNy years to come, lis absolutely
dc ndent upon their favored trade
with the United States" and that
the bill would endanger the finan-a,
cial system of the islands.
Says Farmers Misled
Asserting that the passage of the
bill was motivated in large part
for the presumed relief of certain
American agricultural industries,
Mr.. Hoover held that it gives no
protection to American farmers
during the first two years, and that
in the following five years there
will be no effective protection, be-
cause the amount of competitive
commodities admitted into the
United States duty free is larger
than imports of sugar and cocoanut
oil in 1923.
IF we are to predicate the fate
of 100000 people upon this mo-
tive we should at least not mislead
our farmers about it, he said
Mr. Hoover held that the bill
would weaken the United States
civil authority during the period of
intermediate government to point
of practical impotence, and cited
situations which might rise where
responsibility without adequate au-
thority only can lead TO dis
aster"
Points to Dangers
Discussing external dangers to
independence, Mr.. Hoover said that
the Philippines, as compared with
their neighbors, have large areas of
undeveloped resources, and that the
pressures of immense neighbor
populations FOR peaceful infiltration
or forceable entry into this area are
most potent.
Many of these races are more
devoted to commercial activities
than the population of the islands
and the infiltration is constant and
fraught with friction" he said.
Nor has the spirit of imperial
ism and the exploitation of peoples
by other races departed frox the
earth.
after the establishment of in
dependence the Filipino people
alone will oe helpless to prevent
such inflltration or invasion. Their
problem infinitely is different from
that Of Cuba or other nations in
the western hemisphere Moreover,
the political dangers Of the situa-
ton greatly are increased by the
present instability in the Orient"