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1 Duty of Americans in the Philippines 1 (1904)

handle is hein.congrec/dtyamph0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 5Pm CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 2d Session. I No. 191. THE DUTY OF AMERICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES. ADDRESS BY HON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, CIVIL GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNION READING COLLEGE, MANILA, P. I., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1903. MARCH 8, 1904.-Presented by Mr. BAcoN and ordered to be printed. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, OF THE UNION READING COLLEGE: A long time ago your distinguished manager and head, Doctor Stuntz, came to see me to discuss a number of subjects in his interesting way, and in the course of his remarks injected a bit of his deft flattery concern- ing the management of things in the islands and the civil government, which, of course, put me in a good humor. He painted with the skill of the artist the lights and shades, and did not daub it on. The civil government was just then receiving even more criticism than usual from the -young lions of the Manila press, and the words of Doctor Stuntz came as a balm. When he followed it with an invitation to address the Union Reading College, I took the bate, hook, and all, and accepted. The Angagement was so far ahead that, when made, it seemed as if it would never come, and it was not until this month that my promise rose like a ghost to convince me that the doctor was not without guile, and that the fool killer would have his use in the islands; for it had so fallen out that in this month, when of all others I have least leisure, I have to fulfill my promise. I attended the last lecture of this course hv Doctor Barrows on the subject of Who are the Filipinos? and was greatly interested in the facts that he had dug out by his personal investigations in the islands. When I looked about for an analogous subject I could find none. I have not been making scientific investigations; I have not been making historical investigations. We of the Commission have simply been trying to keep our heads above water in the immense sea of work upon which we are floating, and I could not, for the life of me, think of any subject on which I could say anything except that which has been constantly present to my mind ever since we have been in the islands, to wit, The duty of Americans in the Philippines. If I traverse well-trodden paths I hope that this explanation will excuse a rehearsal of facts and reasons with which you are all familiar. Sometimes, however, it is not a bad idea to look back and arrange the facts and circumstances of some definite period, as the mariner consults his loo and looks to the sun or stars and the charts to see the course over which his good ship has come. This should be done, lest we forget.

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