they can achieve under American' guncdlanship. IE they are further they must be free to strike out for themselves Already they are a homogenco united, self lorder "is admirably maintained. Government finances are in a sound and healthful condition, The currency is Trade has reached.
good years a value of $800,000,000 year. The Talands produce 'a ually about a million tons of sugar. Communications have been greatly improved so that there are now a thousand miles of railway and five thousand miles of good highway; with corresponding developments in telegraphs and telephones. I have no time to indicate the industrial fevolation though it is a very im-Portant part of the transformation which has been wrought in the Archipelago under three decades of 'American' ral But the Filipinos want indepen. dence as they have always wanted have always felt, and 1 said in many speeches. and. articles daring the last thirty years, that when the Filipinos were fit for independence the American peop! would grant it to them, if they st continued to desire it." I was cor Vineed that the American" nation would not hold an alien people} against their will under American domination. We are. not willing, however, to admit the Philippine Islands ar a-state of our federal union, We cannot, without forfeit~ ing the jewel of our souls, hold them "ili perpetual subjugation, There is no alternative but independence. Even if the Fipine were satisfied with a commonwealth status, as they are mot, the time now too late for that solution of} our common' problem.
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