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MR. TAFT ON THE

PHILIPPINES. CONDEMNATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S POLICY,

Mr. W. II. Taft, former President of the United States, and first Governor General of the Philippine Islands, de "livered a speech at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, a month age, from which we take the following:-

and thought. One of its evil results is the A great war absorbs popular licntion withdrawal of that public scrutiny of the government, in its routine administration penco makes for which in Lime of Wise, honest and effective conduct of its Affairs. We have not yet been drawn into the present great Earopean war, and we all hope and pray that we may avert such

a dienster.

- Conditions in Mexico before the Euro- pean war were constantly under discus sion and the interest and attitude of the great European Governments in them seemed likely to make the Mexico policy very critical of our administration

issue.

SEADET MESTU ZABA

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14TB, 1915,

Commission. Ho appointed to succeed the Americans men who had, nover boon im the islands and knew as little as Mr. Harri- son of their new duties, and

EFFECT ON SERVICE,

The effect on the whole service was Be distressing that Mr. Horrison felt obliged to announce that he was no going to be as radioal as reported.

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Mad M tada iduch AMERICA AND CHINESE TRADE.

CAPITAL AND GOOD INTENTIONS NOT ENOUGH.

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Mr. Charles M. Peeper, formor Trade Adviser, United States Department of State, contribute the following article to the San Francisco Chronicle:-

IS

AMERICA

ABANDONING

THE PACIFIC ?

JAPAN'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.

Mr. K. K. Kawakami, Author of "Asia at the Door," American-[ Jappiness Relations?” etc, writes a follows in a San Franciso papers-

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In all the three months between October;

The man, say, the Confucina classics, 1912, and January 1st 1914, 193 Americans

The spacient of the Seamen's Law, has were separated from office, and by July is not guilty in any other way except 1st 1914, the number separated increased that he is in possession of a goul.

China's resources are more than a greated consternation among the shipping to 170. All those were officially reported single gem; they are a whole diamond interests of this country. The low afferty to have rendered satisfactory service.

Let us examine a few of the immediate field. The United States alone among particularly the American vessels on the Pacific ocean, which are mostly manned all the Westora and Eastern nations in results of these changes. The worst and celting to share in this natural wealth, with Chines, whom it aims to replace most destructive epidemic in the island has Du troated China aa u culprit be with American sailors.

Wo Ever since the passage of the law, the It pro have been parties to no scheme of intershipping concerns of the Pacific Coast is the rinderpest. For years wo laboured cause of the possession of riches, to restore the cattle lost by it,

have been trying to conving the public By January 20th, national burglary; strated agriculture.

Chinese friendliness to the United that it will put an end to America' 1914, it had been reduced to nine muni- cipalities in four provinces and was within States, in view of past, present, and transpacific trade, easy control. By act of the Filipino Comprospective burglaries by other nations est, the Dollar Steamship Company of mission and Assembly, control of it was for the possession of the field, makes the San Francisco has transferred its ships to the Canadian flag, while the Patho transferred from the Bureaus of Science present situation of unusual importance.

The resentment over Japan's aggressive Mail has amouneel that it has sold fivid and Agriculture, which themselves by removals had been "shot to pieces and policy, which has caused a boycott of its finest steamers with a view to If the professions of the ship. transferred to Filipino provincial and against Japanese goods, opens legiti ultimate abandonment of the Pacific

mate opportunity for increasing the service. municipal officers.

But there are other ocean soon be clear of American It will virtually be mono- steamships. Agriculture was cut and most of its sea- not be neglected.

attention.

Recently, there came out of Washington trade is concerned.

More than a century ago, · George the announcement of an aggressive cam

Like manying that America's dependence upon paige for the establishment of American Washington sounded the pertineat warn- similar announcements, little in it was foreign nations in the matter of ocean new; yet the prospect of carrying out the sportulion was a serious handicap to

the conditions under her foreign commeres and aliona WHITE LEAD. SNOW WHITE ZINC. calupaiga, end which it may be prosecuted, are worthy of more than a passing inquiry

ARCHIBALD EADIE & CO., The appropriation for the Bureas, of market for Americain goods. It should ring interwis are singers, the io ARCHIBALD

But I am not here to speak of our Moxi i soned veterinarians were forced out of considerations which also should holized by Japan, so far as its shipping

can policy. I only refer to it by way of the service and scores of experienced cattle illustration, in warning you that the policy inspectors were dropped. By May, 1914, now being pursued in the Philippines, of the disease had spread to thirty-two muni- which we har little in the noise and excite cipalities and the executive secretary ment of the European war, is in the end announced the situation serious. By June likely to return to plague us and com-th the Bureau of Agriculture reported an mand our attention much as Mexican increase of 77 per cent, and 118 per cent, respectively, in deaths and new cases Affairs are thrusting themselves on 91% mow.

during the week ending May 23rd.. WORK OF FIFTEEN YEARS.

In 1698 we found the Philippines and their people under our guardianship and control, President Mekinley septed the policy of taking the islands over into our custody and Administering them for the benefit of their prople and of preparing the Filipines by education and partial autonomy for useful self-government. ·

The work of the Gifteen years from the Treaty of Paris until the incoming of the present Administration is something af which the American people have a right to be proud. We had had little or no experience in colonial government. We took over a people, of whom 50 per cent. were illiterate, utterly without training ja self government, with agriculture, their only livelihood, ruined by the war, aud the anurely and vandalism that fol- lowed, and with diseases of men and drait cattle rumpant in the islands.

FRIARS LAND PURCHASE.

business interests in China.

welfare.

On no other occasion has this i warning been so forcibly brought home to the American people as by the European war. The carbarrassing situation creatcul by the war apparently promises to be aggravated when the Seamen's Law goes: In the meantime, Japah will push her iuto dffect in November. Pacific trade with redoubled gustgy. The possible withdrawal of American vespia from the water is a golden opportunity, taking. There are three Japanese stean- ship concerns interested in the tritus: pacific trade-the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, the Nippon Yusen Kaishe, and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha-all subsidized by the

The ambitious programme includes the The Government of the Philippino establishment of an American bank, the islands bought the friars' lands for a good investment of American capital in mining round price, $7,000,000, and issued bonds enterprises, in the erection of cotton to pay it. The policy declared by Con-ills, and other textile industries, and gross required the sale of these lands to the sales of a variety of commodities made the tenants, the carrying out of such a in the United States.

This is dollar diplomsey without amy policy to establish a sinking fund sufficient effort to conceal the dollar mark; and to meet the bonds required care in making very commendable diplomnoy it is. But placed in Japan's lap without leases with privilege of purchase and

how is this aggressive campaign to be constant vigilance in collection of rents.

wagod in view of the declaration regard and installments of the purchase money.ing American interests in China mado Mr. Sleeper had shown great success in

by a very prominent public official soon To answer the this inatter and there was every prospect after March 4, 1913? that the bonded debt could be more than query calls for a close scrutiny of the met when it fell due, Mr. Sleeper as details of the programme director had also the administration of all other public lands, and his office was highly technical one.

As I have said, he and his assistant were summarily remused and in his place was Slowly and with difficulty we construct. put a quondam insurceto Filipino General named Tinio, who know nothing whatever ed a government with a civil service of of the office or its duties. At the end of Americans control and Filipines in sub- ordinate places. We gave as much of local months he was charged with dishonest practices, and although acquitted by inves self-goverment in the municipalities aud-igation he was relieved of his office. provinces as the people could safely exer- cise, We established courts of justice ju all parts of the islands.

EDUCATION, AND FREE MARKETS.

INTERNAL DEVENCE DECREASE.

to be taken to

Government.

commerce.

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much Q

I subsidizing steamship concerns, the Japanese Government is fully aware of This scruting discloses that the plan certan evils likely to accompany this lacks the resounding rhetoric of Presidential proclamation. It is merely method of favouring the capitapist class. a suggestion of a subordinate bureau of To su smail a country as Japan, however, An the question of foreign trade is a ques- With her one of the executive departments.

must by all means encourage foreign American vested interest is to be built tion of life and death. up in China, but no political steps are natural resources extremely limited, she

or secure concessions

The Government believes The cured pronounced in the past that the stimulation of foreign trade and privileges. against vested interests is lifted. They the consequent progress of industry will are no longer odious. Capitalists who react favourably upon the condition of cucourage are to be persuaded to invest their ploney wage in banks and mining and industrial en- foreign trade it is essential that she 3 adequate merchant should LÍ terprises may be encouraged by the pro-rine

So the Government since 1890 mise that their interest, are to be con has been practicing dlaborale methods of sidured vested ; but where is die

rug. authoritative assurance that their Gorncouraging navigation and shipbuild- einment will make their investments in

According to the Japanese law, a ressol reality an American vested interest?

entitled to a subsidy must be a home Nor do recont events enhance the pro-

China'.

earners.

And

The internal revenue income has greatly decreased in the islands. This is, of course, party due to paralysis caused by the Euro- We introduced and perfected an educa-n war, but long before the war it tional system in which 7.000 Filipine had fallen below a normal largely because of the substitution of native inspectors teachers are giving nearly 500,000 of the

for American inspectors in the bureau, children of school age in the islands a

of 3,000 or mores not older than fifteen primary education in English, and added with exactly the same result of laxity and theroto industrial, high school and univer political pull as in the case of the Bureauspect for vesting American interests in built sipul steamer with a gross tonnage

of Lands.

Coincident with the Washington years, and haring a speed not less than Bity facilities for those who could improve

Every observer from the Philippines, them.

every one who knew to spirit of the announcement of a programme for build- twelve nautical miles per hour. Foreign- Government before the new era now speaksing up an American invested interest built vessels not older, than five years may

home-built vessels. with sorrow of the changes. The structure in China which will assure the United receive one-half the rate allowed for which had been so carefully reared has States a share of that country's foreign trade," came the news from Peking that been shaken and seriously impaired.

It is now proposed to make the work of the Standard Oil concessions, which at one time were thought to be settled, had deterioration complete by passing what is

been rejected. It may be presumed that called the Jones, bill. The chief purpose powerful influences of more than of this bill is to make a declaration that domestic character were at work to defeat we intend to give up the islands, to an the concessions. Would these influences nautical miles. independent Philippine Government, be any less hostile to the establishment of nautical mile in speed 10 per cent of the when a stable government is established; an American bank, American mining 25 ony's is allowed. Fur vessels older to create, instead of the present Philip-onterprises, and the building of cotton pine Commission, an elective Senate, and factories! to give to that Senate the power to reject the nominees of the Governor-General to office in the islands.

We have granted the Filipinos the bene fit of the free markets of the United States for their sugar, tobacco, copra and hemp. We rid them of The political Incubus and disturbing effect of the holding by mone tic orders as landlords of 400,000 meres of the best agricultural lands in the most populated districts of the islands, through Governmental purchase. We stimulated the building of railroads and the great betterment of inter-island navigation. We promoted in extended system of highways in the islands where they, were but pony tralls before. We readjusted the system of taxation to lift the weight of taxation off the poorer classes, where it had rested in Spanish days, and gave the wealthier "a fairer share of the burden. We made

the administration of

Jaws the tax

CANNOT TERK BACK,

And what measures has the United States taken to counteract them, or what measures will it take?

Doubtless, whenever, if ever, the page of our diplomatic correspondence in the Far East is opened to the American public, it will disclose that the record is consistent so far as the exchange of notes to be communicated to other Powere goes But what fores is back of these official, communications?

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The amount of subsidy varies according to the speed of the vessel, as well as the A vessel having a distance traveled. speed of twelve nautical miles per hour is subsidized at the maximum rate of 25 For each additional

cents per gross ton for each 1,000

than five years the subsidy is reduced at the rate of 5 per cent, for every year. At the end of the fifteenth year the subsidy is entirely withdrawn.

According to the new subsidy schedule formulated by the Japanese Government, the transpacific service receives al subsidy Of this total, the Tacoma of $2,274,000. Seattle line receives $374,781, the San Francisco line 718,307.

But even if it is a burden for us to continue in the islands, ought we to scuttle uniform honest, coonomical and produc- and run? Can we do it and properly dis- tive, and where it had been unequal, cor-

charge the duty to the Filipinos which rupt, wasteful and unproductive.

we have assumed? What are we going Wo found at first little sympathy in our novel colonial venture from the colonial to do for the non-Christian tribes, for the control of whom Filipino politicians are authorities of those countries long engaged

even less fitted than they are for the in colonial responsibilities because of our announced purpose to educate the Fili-government of their own people! What are we going to do for the Moros in the pinos by a widespread English school system, and by a gradual extension of south, who will utterly refuse to come into will have to be treated as gornething more of the war the ports on both sides of the

the politient education. Philippine republic, and whom a Fili. autonomy and

pino republican government will be wholly which it would slowly impart.

In the beginning we had bad and unable to subdue ! Incompetent men, of course, but these wo winnowed out. Not a scintilla of partisan- ship was permitted to insert itself in the service. President McKinley stood back of the Philippine Commission in this and during the fifteen years of Republican control, no one know or cared what was the political afiliations of Americans in the island sorvico. Their politics were only fidelity to the purpose to make the Philip pine Government efficient and useful to the Filipino people.

CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION.

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In October, 1913, after an unceremoni- ous ousting of Cameron Forbes, a most efficient Governor-General having no poli- tics, Frank Harrison landed in the islands as Governor-General. On his way to Honolulu he had announced that he had sardonic pleasure in ousting Republicans from office. When he reached Manila he told the Filipinos in a public address that the change in the National Administra- tion had brought them a new era, and painted its attractions in glowing eniours. He brought with him Manuel Quezon, a delegate to Congress from the islands, and a Filipino politician of not the highest standing in the Philippines,

STRANGE FOOTBALL SEASON.phrased.

NO PAID, PLAYERS AND NEW COMPETITIONS.

It is the irony of fate that this generous subsidy should sometimes prove If American capital is to be invested a disadvantage to the steamship o in banks and mines and factories and paies. For one thing, the Government fixes the maximum freight rate, which mercantile business, and the commACE

cannot be altered even under such extra

as have beers resulting therefrom is to become genuine invested interest, these matters ordinary circumstances

created by the war. Since the outbreak so congested with than subjects of international litigation of the hath port This reflection enforces he need of a

But definite declaration of American policy cargoes that the American seamship com- rather than the suggestion of a paper pames have raised freight rates.

the subsidized Japanese companies are programme for an aggressive eppaign.

still compelled to carry freight at the The Confucian classics may be para

Thus the The American capitalist look same rate as before the was ing toward China is not guilty in any subsidy law, primarily intended to other way except that he has capital benefit the Japanese shipping concerns, is Positive presumption of his incence of incidentally benefiting the American

public. any intention of wrongdoing is necessary, It is a strange football season this year, if his capital is to be made reproductive remarks a London paper. International for himself and productive for American matches, Cup-ties, and all the old com-trade. petitions have been swept away, and in their place there will be a series of matches WEEKLY VISITS TO FRONT. in which local clubs oppose each other."

OFFICIAL INVITATION TO TRADE The Football League is divided into a

UNION OFFICIALS. Midland and a Lancashire section, each

Arrangements have been made to send composed of fourteen clubs, and a London Combination has also been formed in out to the front weekly, for the next two which the leading clubs in the metropoli months, visiting parties of seven workmen tan district will take part. The most im-from munitions areas, accompanied by on portant change of all, however, is the fact or two of the Labour members of the Muni- that all payments to players have beentions Parliamentary Committee, forbidden by the Football Association, sa From each party a report of impressions that all the men taking part in the game this season will be strict amateurs.

BALLOONS OF POISON GAS.

GERMAN METHODS AT OSSOWIEC.

Major-General Brjosovsky, the com- mandant of the fortress of Ossowiec, has communicated to the Emperor a report regarding the defence of the fortress.

The Commandant states that, on March 31st, the enemy, seeing the fruitlessness of his previous efforts, assumed the defen sive, and entrenched himself, bringing up from the rear numerous guns of heavy is expected. The invitation, which calibre which had been dismounted and were put into fresh positions. The lull likely to be sent to most of the responsible trade union otheials, has so far been ex- lasted until August 7th, when the Germans tended to the following organisations made an assault, having previously sent

Amalgamated Engineers,

into the fortress 600 balloons of ahpyxiat Brassfounders? and Coppersmithsing gas. The troops composing the gar rison, who were nearly all poisoned, had United Association

United Operative Plumbers.

to yield ground at first, but, animated by Amalgamated Society of Carpenters their officers, they made a superbuma

effort, and drove back the enemy at the. and Joiners,

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Eight of the most important clubs have decided to obstsin altogether from com- petition football this sesson and to devote their attention entirely to games played for the benefit of charity. These are Black burn Rovers, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Wolverhampton Birmingham, Mr. Harrison announced publicly that Albion, he owed his appointment to Quezon, and Wanderers, Newcastle United, Middles

Associated Blacksmiths and Ires point of the bayonet. On August 6th the MACGREGOR&C. ho showed his gratitude by following brough, std Sunderland. Most of the

clubs, including Workers: Sheet Metal Workers and Germans made preparations for a fresh Quezon's recommendations as to removals leading Yorkshire

Sheffield Wednesday, Braziera; Coppersmiths; Electrical Trades and appointments within twenty-four Shofield United, hours after landing in the islands. Mr Bradford City, Bradford, Huddersfield, Union; United Pattern Makera; Friendly Harrison had been a Tammany Congress Hall City, and Barns'ey will take part Society of Iron Founders; Amalgamated man of come years' standing. He had in the Midland section of the League cam Tool Makers; United Machine Workers

Steam Engine Makers, Boilermakers, and known nothing of the Philippines, their petition.

Shipwrights, people or the problem. The President accepted the resignations of all the Ameri- can Philippine Commissioners and also all the Philippine Commissioners but one, He gave the Filipinos a majority of the

Since the close of last season many pro- minent football players have joined the colours, and in some cases then man have been given leave of absence to assist their old clubs,

One full-time official for each trade union will be permitted to visit the front, and the workers will be chosen from munitions areas throughout the United Kingdom.

assault, which was to be preceded by the discharge of double the quantity of gas previously employed against the garrison WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. which was by this time exhausted and al- Orders were most incapable of effort. then received to evacuate the fortress, after razing it to the ground.

The Tsar has written a note on the map- gin of the report, warmly thanking "the old garrison of valiant Ossowiec."

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