Imperial Rubber
380 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 IMPERIAL RUBBER No one believes that the...
...The guaranteed...
...The idea that sented anew the case for self-government...
...that value and extricated from camouflage...
...directly connected with American political residents...
...The Carmi Thompson has been the official pioneer in a present native resentment of his conservatism and new voyage of conquest dear to the hearts of numer- "cavalry cabinet" is based upon its trend away from ous agents and sub-agents who approach the Islands independence rather than upon any specific charges on a wily campaign for rubber...
...380 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 IMPERIAL RUBBER No one believes that the General has any connection with capital or rubber...
...but on the consolidate the victory of Admiral Dewey...
...Pacific was a fallacy before the signing of the Four It seems to have been forgotten that the three imme- Power Treaty, and has been farcical since...
...adapted to the designs of Mr...
...Never be- the Islands are an essential naval stronghold in the fore has official America been so deaf to this case...
...that if these tranquil dependencies are properly ex- It may be admitted that it is true that General Wood ploited, a certain British-Dutch monopoly of caout- has frowned upon "paternalism" in the Filipino govchouc can be broken...
...It may be too rash to T HE United States has suddenly remembered its assert that his position there was a conclusion arrived "chief insular possession...
...Colonel lishment in the Islands and to "hold the fort...
...be much impressed by the case for autonomy...
...Shall we vote "no" to a Philippine policy conflict is, in fact, so sharp that representatives from of long standing and of an anti-imperialistic character, the Philippines, headed by judge Abad Santos, have so that the reign of rubber may be established...
...and strife, imperialism is an excellent thing...
...The Filipino people of the Philippines forever without getting into spokesmen can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt trouble...
...you might emancipate them with what seems that they speak for their entire constituency in demand- comparatively little difficulty...
...In such a case, it will have been freely and frankly Independence has been a Filipino ideal since long admitted by the government of the United States that before the arrival of Admiral Dewey, and they note two decades of experimentation have established the with mortified astonishment that the administration conclusion that, regardless of political philosophies of General Leonard Wood has been a steady and and previous commitments, of possible dissatisfaction frank announcement of Filipino unpreparedness...
...ing, cannot easily be shaken by idealistic platforms But the future of rubber is halted by several minor of "self-government" and "development of political considerations...
...The claim diate predecessors of President Coolidge all declared that the Filipinos are not ready for self-government emphatically that their policy in the Philippines was can be substantiated in part-it might be upheld with "preparation for self-government," and that the Jones some show of success that even we, ourselves, are law of August, 1916, firmly committed Congress to not masters of democracy-but must never be taken this view...
...It should be recognized, however, that such governing the Islands specifies that land shall not be a fact is as nothing to compare with a stable commodheld in larger plots than 5,000 acres-a size not at all ity like rubber...
...The object literacy is steadily on the increase, and that the most will then be exploitation on a grand scale, not "innotorious cases of graft in the Islands have been struction in democracy...
...Is it just and expedient that sees clearly that a United States which has turned a dependent people's aspirations be curbed in order farmer on a large scale will never suffer its "chief that the safety of large capital investments may be insular possession" to become autonomous...
...You cannot colonize the What accounts for the change...
...Filipino affairs have at from fears of Japanese policy and action, but doubtattained news status-a fact traceable this time to a less he was expected to consolidate the military estabsense of values more concrete than idealistic...
...First, a section of the organic law destiny...
...to mean innate unfitness...
...army and an educational system have been organized Obviously, neither he nor any other army man would by the United States for the benefit of the Filipino...
...nize this commodity and decide whether or not to Secondly, the movement for Filipino independence give it the right of way...
...It is calmly asserted of maladministration...
...Firestone and his com- American political opinion must, therefore, recogpeers...
...More or less scholarly persons ernment, as exemplified in the Manila railway and recall that a sum of $20,000,000 was once used to some of the cooperative sugar centrales...
...Facts bear them out in We do not presume to say, in this random statetheir declaration that the army, the educational sys- ment, that rubber is not equal in importance to a detem, the judiciary, and the press are now more largely sire for independence...
...These embarked on a voyage of education and have pre- are the only questions which matter...
...that an whole, he has adopted no really original measures...
...We merely feel that if the native in character than ever before...
...The and that at last an opportunity has arisen to reap a concrete fact that American military forces captured handsome profit from the great imperialistic ad- and subjugated the Islands by means of severe fightventure...
...ing immediate independence...
...They can prove decision is made in favor of Mr...
...Harvey Firestone that the Filipino electorate, which now includes a full and his brethren, it ought to be accepted at its face third of the qualified voters, is strongly united...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 16
