me association has limited funds and personnel, and thus far only a few provinces have been visited by its campaigners. Officials of the society, however, said they would do everything possible to achieve the mission of the association.
Explaining the purpose of the organization, its officials said: "It is not that we have no faith in the Filipino people, or that we belittle their courage. It is that there is a variety of defeatism more dangerous than this movement which would call the Filipino people back to their senses, It is the defeatism of the man who is overcome with sentimental and romantic notions and refuses steadfastly to outgrow them."
Officials of the society claimed that a partnership between the Philippines and the United States would be the best safeguard of the Philippines against the menace of external aggression.
Defending themselves against charges that they are "defeatist," officials of the association said those who would have independence "refuse to use their reason... insist on pursuing a course that is not only perilous but hopeless."—United Press.
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