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Title: The Philippine problem 1898-1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlin, Frederick Carleton, b. 1870
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ationality,we should not be devoting our entire energiestoward the accomplishment of those measureswhich make such a nationality possible; weshould not be providing all of the people of theIslands with a common language; we shouldnot be maintaining different organizations ofarmed Filipinos drilled in the art of war, aggre-gating ten thousand men, of whom five thou-sand are paid from the Treasury of the UnitedStates as United States troops; we should notbe extending the privileges of occupying themore important posts in the government serv-ice to Filipinos; we should not be devotingour first efforts toward binding the Filipinostogether into a closer union by those ties whichcome from improved means of communica-tion, as post-offices, telegraph and telephones,railroads, roads, subsidized steamboats, andso forth. If Governor Forbes be retained in his posi-tion, he will steadily shape his administrationtoward securing the development of Island re-sources through American capital, in order
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Highest Types of the Tagalog Gente Illustrada. Governors of Tagalog Provinces in 1904. THE PROBLEM IN 1913 229 that the revenues of the local government maythus be increased to a figure that will permitmore rapid expenditure upon the roads, rail-roads, harbors, and schools, our chief civilizingforces. With almost the same assurance, it may beasserted that he will secure this capital, for heknows how to do it. Before he went to theIslands at all, the securing of capital and itsinvestment was his daily work. The financierswill follow his recommendations in the end,even if the actual investment of the money besomewhat postponed because of the presentopposition of the gente illustrada. We shall make steady if slow progress. Wehave done so from the beginning, and therewould seem to be no good reason why the recordcannot be indefinitely continued. Unquestion-ably we can give the submerged ninety percent of the Filipinos a better opportunity toimprove their condition than they ever had orcan

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