NOT AN AUSPICIOUS VIEW

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

NOT AN AUSPICIOUS VIEW.

According to Senator Patterson of Colorado, who has recently made a visit to the Philippines, there is no great promise of a bright future. The Filipinos long for independence, and for hundreds of years they have fought for it. And while the hand of the United States is gentle and tender compared to that of Spain, they prefer to rule themselves, a course which many wise men have advocated. He declares:

The Filipinos, the more you know of them, the more serious appears the problem. I am convinced that in this government we are getting farther and farther away from Secretary Taft's patriotic and humane policy—the Philippines for the Filipinos and ultimate independence. The gulf between the native and the American is widening. I fear the Philippines are a smouldering volcano.