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68TH CONGIRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I REP'r. 709
1st Session Part 3
TO ENABLE THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPI14E ISLAN.$ -TO
ADOPT A CONSTITUTION AND FORM A GOVERNMENT ROR hEHl
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND TO PROVIDE FOR \THE FUWiURE
POLITICAL STATUS OF THE SAME
MAY 30, 1924.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. KENT, from the Committee on Insular Affairs, submitted the
following
MINORITY REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 8856]
I have gone over the majority and minority reports in the above
matter. I am conscious of the responsibility which rests upon the
Congress of the United States in passing upon a matter affecting
11,000,000 human beings. No people should be deprived of inde-
pendence and an opportunity to work out their own destinies if they
are capable of doing so. Much has been said in the hearings in this
matter and in argument before the committee to the effect that tho
Philippine people bear the same relation toward the people of thq
United States as the American colonists, prior to the American
Revolution, bore toward the British people. The cases are nol
analogous. In the present case there is no question of taxatioij
without representation. There is the single question of the capa-
bilities of the people of the Philippine Islands to govern themselves
effectively, since we are committed to eventual and complete Philip-
pine independence if it is desired by the Filipino people.
We have here the case of 11,000,000 striving and ambitious people,
scattered upon many hundreds of islands comprising the Philippine
Archipelago, lying in the waters of the Pacific Ocean in the direct
trade route between America and certain nations of the Orient and
between the Japanese Archipelago and other oriental nations. There
is but one question in my mind and that is whether the Filipino
people have established a sufficiently strong and stable government
that they may work out their destinies in a satisfactory manner and
fully protect themselves from outside aggression which might con-
front them. The hearings before the committee do not argue force-
fully and affirmatively that such a government exists.
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