The Philippines: An Account of Their People, Progress, and Condition, by Mrs. Campbell Dauncey; with Special Contributions by the Hon. William Howard Taft and the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt ...J. B. Millet Company, 1910 - 324 страници |
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Aglipayanos American amongst asked Azotea balcony bamboo band beach beautiful Benguet blue boat brown Butuan by-the-bye called camisas carabaos catafalque Chinese civilisation climate cocoa-nut colour cook cool crowd dark deck door dressed drive English fashion Filipino fresh friends Gibson Girl green grey Guimaras heard heat Hong Kong huge huts Iloilo Jaro launch light little brown brother live look lovely Manila Manila papers Mestizo monsoon morning muslin Nagaba native never nice night nipa palms Panay paper paper lanterns pesos Philippine Islands playing Plaza pony poor pretty river road roofs round rows seems seen servants shops side sitting sort Sotero Spaniards Spanish steamers street sunset Taft talk tell things thought tiny tion told town trees tropic Visayan walk WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
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Страница 4 - Our only difference is that those who do not agree with us have no confidence in the virtue or capacity or high purpose or good faith of this free people as a civilizing agency, while we believe that the century of free government which the American people have enjoyed has not rendered them irresolute and faithless, but has, fitted them for the great task of lifting up and assisting to better conditions and larger liberty those distant peoples who, through the issue of battle, have become our wards.
Страница 19 - Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command...
Страница 22 - Save only our attitude toward Cuba, I question whether there is a brighter page in the annals of international dealing between the strong and the weak than the page which tells of our doings in the Philippines.
Страница 4 - The harder the task the greater will be the result, the benefit and the honor. To doubt our power to accomplish it is to lose faith in the soundness and strength of our popular institutions.
Страница 29 - Up to the time of our occupation, the government had represented to the Filipino an entity entirely distinct from himself with which he had little sympathy and which was engaged in an attempt to obtain as much money as possible from him in the form of taxes. He had been taught to regard an office as the private property of the person holding it and in respect to which ordinary practice justified the holder in making as much profit from it as he could. The idea that a public office is a public trust...
Страница 17 - In other words, there is not the slightest chance of our failing to show a sufficiently humanitarian spirit. The danger comes in the opposite direction. There are still troubles ahead in the islands. The insurrection has become an affair of local banditti and marauders, who deserve no higher regard than the brigands of portions of the Old World. Encouragement, direct or indirect, to these insurrectos stands on the same footing as encouragement to hostile Indians in the days when we still had Indian...
Страница 21 - ... choice of governmental agents, and the entire elimination of partisan politics from the public service. The condition of the islanders is in material things far better than ever before, while their governmental, intellectual, and moral advance has kept pace with their material advance. No one people ever benefited another people more than we have benefited the Filipinos by taking possession of the islands. The cash...
Страница 16 - It is on this side that our error, if any, has been committed. No competent observer, sincerely desirous of finding out the facts and influenced only by a desire for the welfare of the natives, can assert that we have not gone far enough. We have gone to the very verge of safety in hastening the process. To have taken a single step farther or faster in advance would have been folly and weakness, and might well have been crime. We are extremely anxious that the natives shall show the power of governing...
Страница 35 - ... and all Asia, are to be presented the most important political questions for the next century, and that in the pursuit of trade between the Occident and the Orient the having such an outpost as the Philippines, making the United States an Asiatic power for the time, will be of immense benefit to its merchants and its trade. While I have always refrained from making this the chief reason for the retention of the Philippines, because the real reason lies in the obligation of the United States to...
Страница 35 - ... will be strengthened and improved. Meantime they will be able to see and the American public will come to see the enormous material benefit to both arising from the maintenance of some sort of a bond between the two countries which shall preserve their mutually beneficial business relations. No one can have studied the East without having been made aware that in the development of China, Japan, and all Asia are to be presented the most important political questions for the next century, and that...