p. 9 | The Philippine Commission by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 18, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 16.

The Philippine Commission

By Editor

The members of the Philippine Commission are to leave San Francisco for Manila on April 18. This commission has been given power by the President to rule the islands; and the army and all the civil governments established in the Philippine group will be under the control of this civil commission. It is a civil commission, but it will rule by virtue of the military force under it. The natives may be able to distinguish between this kind of civil rule and the military rule which has existed thus far, but the chances are they will not. The army will be the executive, as it has been, and the love of liberty will be as strong as ever.