AMERICA IS THE PHILIPPINES.
America in the Philippines is having a taste of Great Britain’s experience in South Africa. The cables to-day tell us that the lingering character of the task of subduing tho rebellious Filipinos is causing great impatience in America. The weakest of the many weak spots in the method of government which has been applied to the Islands—a system of quasiindependence —is that the people are not capable either in character or by training, of following the path laid down for them by the United States. The general impression among the Filipinos of all classes —an impression fostered by the smooth words lavished on them —has been that America means to bestow on them not independence but the full rights of American citizenship. But authorities say such a course is out of the question. One prominent writer in a recent article said the ideal treatment, one which would have saved trouble, expense, and failure, would have been a temporary military government, gradually merging into purely civil administration. This would seem to be the impression which is becoming stronger in America, for sending 20,000 reinforcements is now urged. We can sympathise with our American cousins.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 4
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197AMERICA IS THE PHILIPPINES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 4
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