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rVTJ" lrxw 1 im . The Commoner MAY, 1916 27 , . -i- &.. m - h's:, THE BLOW THAT ALMOST IOLLED FATHER Kirby in the New Tork "World. FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES The defeat of the independence clause of the Philippine bill in the house was due directly to the defec tion of some thirty democrats, the majority 'of s.'iwhom,- represent con stituencies in. certain large eastern cities. Fifteen of them represent districts in New York city. Several others hail from northern New Jer sey. There were three or four from Boston. The influence of the Roman Catholic church is seen by some ob servers in these facts. But other churches of Protestant affiliations were said to be actively opposed to the independence clause, and they were the churches that have at tempted Protestant evangelization in the Philippines since the American occupation began. The Protestant missionary interests feared the col lapse of their movement, apparently, in case the islands were to lose their present American connection. As for the Roman Catholic church, it is op posed to Philippine independence as much as it ever was in the days of Spanish rule. Its interests might be prejudiced under a native govern ment at all under the control of the old revolutionary element; besides, independence, from the Vatican point of view is a step nearer, perhaps, to ultimate Japanese domination and Japan is pagan. Every time an effort fails to ad vance the cause of Philippine inde pendence in the American congress, one must be newly impressed with the everlasting blunder this country made in taking over the islands. Whenever this effort is repeated in the future, there will be heard the same protest against "scuttling" and abandoning our "sacred trust." The same commercial and religious in terests that have co-operated from the beginning in making the Philip pines an incubus upon the United States will rally against separation, as' they have this week. Party pride in the discredited statesmanship that attempted the futile experiment in "benevolent assimilation" in an oriental dependency will prove a stubborn obstacle to withdrawal. It la unlikely that another opportunity o good as this one to bring about the evacuation will bo presented in our time, and the present failure to carry through congress an inde pendence measure somewhat definite in its promise is significant of a crisis in our Philippine "relations but little appreciated in the country at large. The ultimate future of the Philip pines is beyond the scope of prophecy. A distinguished military critic has said of the Philippines as a problem in military defense for the United States: "It is a weak, eccentric military position, fundamentally indefensible against any strong trans-Pacific pow er, but inevitably a magnet to draw ships and troops away from our shores." The United States must go ahead doing its best for the Philippine is lands in government, education and economic development but to waste American resources on the military or naval defense of the islands in case of war would obviously be folly. For they are "fundamentally inde fensible" against any strong trans Pacific power. Springfield, (Mass.) Republican. new things. In the heat of the mo ment when wo are irritated at being disturbed we are inclined to damn the man and the mcasuro in one oommon denunciation. But history never minimizes the leaders, and wo ourselves usually live long enough to carry garlands to their tombs. Mr. Bryan is but 66 years of age, and has a reasonable expectancy of twenty years ahead of him. In that timo ho will witness tho triumph of his fight against the saloon, and the tiruraph of his fight for equal rights for women, as ho may witness tho triumph of his fight against militar ism and a military establishment for America. But whether he does so live or not, he is in his open popular championship of these great public causes, giving vitality to tho Amer ican experiment. For when wo cease to have these tribunes of the people, the public judgment will cease to have weight, and popular institutions will fail. Des Moines (la.) Register and Leader, May 12. MR. BRYAN AS A "STUMPER" Inasmuch as those who criticize Mr. Bryan most severely for his poli tics are usually prompt to balance the equation by commending him as a reform leader, there should be a substantially unanimous welcome ex tended to him today as he comes to Des Moines to speak in behalf of woman suffrage. . Horace Greeley once said that with out "the stump" our form of govern ment could not be maintained. In the large and proper sense Mr. Bryan is the greatest "stumper" of this gen eration, for he has taken up more unpopular causes and sustained them with more eloquence and effect than any man of his time. Ho has set a splendid example of fearlessness and constancy and whatever may be our final judgment of the causes, there can be no question of the quality of the advocacy they have had. It is well to stop once in a wnile and put a fair estimate on the ser vices of the man who agitates for A MTTLE SPOT OF GREEN Juat as the summer when the day Is sweet And all the grass is green around our feet, A little spot of green in life makes glad Tho downcast spirits and the hearts grown sad A breath of fresh believing in this life That meets us all with troubling and with strife. You know how fine and high and bricrht you feel When springtime morning through your window peeps, And how you rise with muscles taut as steel To greet the beauty that upon you creeps Well, so it Is that life grows happier when A little spot of green comes back again. O, sad and brown and dreary were the way Without some spot of green to cheer the day, And twinkling eyes and smiling lips are just The things to lift us from our dreams of dust, To bless and charm us, as some green fields yonder" In which the children of the spring time wander. Unto the winter of our sorrowing care Love brings a spot of green for us to wear, And in that light and joy and cheer of lovo We turn our eyes to heavens that burn above With happier light than maybe we have known, And so in it the clouds and tears have flown. Baltimore Sun. that too in such a way as to take hold upon tho mentality of his hearers. If the charm and forco of ' Ills manner has declined since tho utter ance of the ringing "Crown of thorns ' and cross of gold" speech years ago, that fact was well concealed last night. Attesting a perfect poise, Mr. Bryan did not borate the administra tion, but hold to tho text of his dis course. 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