The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1905, Page 1

Francisco an Z| Friday; warm in the nds, changing to b A THAT IS BEIN 1 T}U‘f President of the U Hax. y in men of great TRE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, July T: n the afternoon and night District Forecaster. 4 vieinity—Fair forenoon, cooler light north risk westerly. G. McADIE, NY OTHER PAPER PU B 1nus ALCAZAR—“Up CALIFORNIA—"Zaza." CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMEBIA—"Ranson’s Folly.” GRAND—“The Belle of Richmond™ MAJESTIC—"“Secret Service.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. York State.” . SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1903 PRICE FIVE CENTS. WAR SECRETARY TAFT TELLS OF THE GREAT WORK G DONE IN THE PHILIPPINES. J;z_y.; Vfar/m JY@/‘ ?l/a.; Srez;lesl o ited States. ving the n his long life had the acquaintance ining with Abraham Lincoln. / (flz)u/amafs. I cannot speak a single word ame of his closest friend, * x5 the = of * in solving a later problem. Squal Rates to AU on Panama Radlroad. HE canal has a railroad by its side. We have obtained entire control. * * * Ve propose to charge an equal rate for the carrying of goods across the isthmus. * * * If upon the completion of the canal California loses any commerce she must turn to the G overnment for help * % Wust Sain Confidence of the Filipinos. HE problem in the Philippines is to make the pe ople whom we are to govern in those islands for their benefit believe that we are sincere. * and make them patient while we are instructing them wn self-gov- your good intentions. ernment. You cannot make them patient unmless yow comvince them of v . e\ Ll \ |l & ,,m,/,/\, SOME OF THE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS AT THE BANQUET GIVEN BY THE COMMERCIAL BODIES TO SECRETARY TAFT. | Y Distinguished Guests Entertained at a Banquet Grven by Commercial Organizations of San Francisco F o s cretary al or- A suc- tendered great 1 was Three at down m being rep- resentatives of the leading interests of the Pacific Coast The great room had been splendidly for the occasio All the .oorways were draped wi American | Mags, ana suspe trance was a pi honor. About the masses of tall ferns, was garlanded with evergreens. tables were all decorated with roses and llies. A fine band played national airs, and vocal music was supplied by a chorus of male voices. a re of the guest side walls over the main en- of were The pink Chasrman Sbharboro Says Government Is in Competent Hands Sbarboro acted as chairman and de & short talk, speaking as follows: rs of the Commercial Bodies er of & rancisco, Honorable Guests, ellency the Governor, Fellow- izens We have met at the festal board this evening for the purpose of hearty greeting to the Hon inguished Government rep- ives who will accompany him t. e first time in the history cisco that we have been such a large body of prom- rnment officials at any one hands of these gentlemen been for some time and is 2 long time to remain the our great country. We con- nds and that the ship of be sailed by these gentle- y their captain at Washing- the ports of safety and pros- perity ™M of you gentlemen have per- 8 not yet inspected Californja, and sequently you do not know that we ve here a State which will in the near future maintain in happiness and prosperity more people than ady other State in the Union. “I will therefore call on his Excel- lency George C. Pardee, our i. Taft, Secretary of War, and | elves that our future is/ 1 Comztry’s Affairs Are Ably Discussed by Men of National Reputation -+ Governor, to speak to you about “The State of California.” o Governor Pardee Arouses Applause by Brillant Talk while the ceiling | When Governor Pardee arose to speak he was received with tremendous | cheers. He said In part: “I am called upon to speak on ‘The State of California.’ I cannot imagine a | greater subject to talk on, and I know I | have no prowess of eloquence to do jus- | tice to it. In the first place, in behalf, | of the people of this State, I extend greetings to the Secretary and to the other members of his party. We are glad to have you with us. If I remem- ber correctly some one has sald, ‘See Naples and die’; now I want to this, that any one who comes to this State— who goes about and sees the ‘green | trees, the fertile valleys, the wealth of orange groves, the vineyards filled with | luscious grapes, the flg trees and the | frults that are native to almost every clime, that visitor will say, and he will say it with a loud, strong voice: ‘See California and live!’ (Great cheering.) “Many explorers of note passed up and down our favored land, but it re- mained for that bold pioneer, John Marshall, to discover the great gold | flelds that brought our beloved State | first into prominence before the world. lh was this first great gold discovery ]lhat brought into this State men of | great intellects, men of massive, strong | characters, whose principles and bril- | liant minds were the foundations of | making this State what it is to-day. Gold, however, is not our only wealth | to-day. Our wealth to-day lies in the | fact that in this State we have 1,750,000 happy and-contented people, who love the State, who love the Union, who love the stars and stripes, and in the name of these people I bid you all welcome here to-night. | "“The people of this State are proud of the peaceful attitude of the United States, under whose flag they are so happy and united. “And now, Mr. Secretary, you, who come here to represent the foremost man of the world, President Roosevelt (tremendous cheering), I again say we are happy to have you in our State. We hail you and we greet you. We wish you a safe trip to the lands to which you are bound and we wish vou a safo return.” parted life. | charming personality; he Visitors Warmly Welcomed by Business Men Frank J. Symmes, president of the Merchants’ Association of San Fran- cisco, followed. He spoke at length upon the interests of the Pacific Coast and his remarks were inter- rupted with applause. In closing Mr. Symmes sald, referring to the guest of the evening: ““We have the right man in the right place. He {8 a man who stands for uprighteousness, no matter in what character, from what country or what sex.” Judge W. W, Morrow was the next speaker. He announced at the start of his remarks that he was supposed to make a speech of welcome. He sald that the Secretary had already been welcomed by the Governor of the State to the Btate and he didn't know exact- ly what welcome he was expected to tend to him. “It might be possible,” he added, “that I am to welcome the Becretary and his party to the court of appeals.” He praised the work of Secretary Taft and said he was an important fao- tor in the Federal ju@iclary. He said he considered Secretary Taft the ablest man that could have been sent to the Philippines to act as its Governor. At the connl\l:llon ot Judge Morrow's speech Chairmdn Sbarboro called upon Secretary Taft to respond to the toast, “The President of the United States.” This was the signal for a great out- burst of applause, everybody rising and cheering for several minutes. Important Matters Are Touched Upon by Secretary Taf? Secretary Taft spoke as follows: “Mr. Chalrman, Governor Pardee and Gentlemen of the Commercial Organiza- tions of San Francisco and the State of California: You would think me wanting certainly in heart and soul if I did not attempt to tell you of my appreciation of the greeting which you have given me. ‘While to me was assigned the toast ‘The President of the United States,’ I cannot speak a single sentence in response with- out first mentioning the name of his clos- est friend, John Hay, who has just de- this Hay was a man of ‘was & man who in his long life had the acquaintance of the great men of this country, beginning with Abraham Lincoln. And his opinions on important questions are memories that those who were assoclated with him at the Cabinet table can look back upon. He was a man of the finest literary sense, a poet, a historian, and, above all, the greatest diplomatist. From the standpoint of diplomacy alone, perhaps, the greatest this country has ever seen. A man of singular faculty for seizing the psycholog- jcal moment when, by a masterful stroke, he could lead the nations of the earth into a selt-denying agreement that made for hteousnes: “And now it devolves upon me in this great sorrow of ours to respond to the toast of ‘The President.’ In his great loss the President turns to another man, Blihu Root of New York, & man under whom it has been my great pleasure to serve as subordinate. Know that in him we have one of the greatest constructive states- men. Happy the country, happy the Presi@ent, who, having lost a Hay, can turn to & Root. Praises Roosevelt. “And now, ‘The President of the United States’ I wish you could know him as I do. And why should I wish that? For you do know him es I do. There is not anybody in this United States that does not know Theodore Roosevelt. He has not one atém of conceit, he wears his heart on his sleeve. He cannot even keep a state secret, but must confide it to the people the next day. Earnest in his high pur- pose, ‘strenuous in his actiens, having the highest attainable ideals, and know- ing no ‘tired feeling’ in his ambition to make and keep this country the greatest on the earth. Certainly we can congratu- late ourselves in having such a chief mag- istrate. “I need not refer to the fact that the country gave him the greatest ma- jority possible—the greatest majority in histgry of elections. The truth is that by his benign influence we are living in an era of political good feel- ing—an era that visits a nation only once in each century. I hope that it may be prolonged, for it was during this era that this Philippine delegation was organized. It does not mean that we have lost our opinions, and do not differ from each other in the way of solving the problems, but it means that there are enough members of the House of Representatives on both sides of the political line, and enough members of the Senate on both sides of the political line, who are so interested in the ques- tion and so desirious of knowing the facts that they devote three months of their valuable time In investigating these facts. “It is all right to talk about a ‘Junket’—it is all right to talk about & pleasure trip, but when you make an engagement to take more than a fourth of a year out of your busy lives to de- vote to public service, I think you will reach the conclusion that it bears some other name than junket. Philippine Question. “We are going out to see if we can-~ not more deeply probe the matters and obligations that we have taken upon ourselves in those distant islands. Proximity has much to do with legii tion and supervision. Those things nearest us are the things we look after, those things that are absent are the things that are always wrong. So that when we overcome distance, we have done something to bring about justice. “It is, perhaps, hardly proper under a toast to the President, for me to refer to the Philippine question. And yet it is his responsibility, he is practically its sponsor, and I guess we can make a few remarks on the Philippine question rela- tive to a toast of the President. “The problem in the Philippines is the problem of making the people, whom we are to govern In those islands for thelr benefit, belleve that we are sincere when we tell them that we are there for their benefit, and make them patient while we are instructing them in self-govern- ment. You cannot make them patient ynless you convince them of your good intentions. Unless you have confidence in your ability to successfully carry out your intentions you cannot make them patient. No man can play any part who does not love the Philippine people; no man can play any part who does not belleve in their future and that they are capable of self-government. ¥ “T am told that there are quite & num- ber of Filipinos who are in favor of absolute independence at once, and I am confronted with the repeated quesglon, ‘Shall we grant them Independence at once or are we right to show them that they cannot be made fit for independence at once?” They are not yet ready for independence and if they talk of inde- pendence at the present time it is mere _— wind. I am certain there will doubtless come a solution of the problem. Schools Are Growing. “Discouraging reports come from the islands. In one place ladrones have broken out and have been suppressed, in another a public meeting denouncing the Government, or it may be a lack of prosperity, or the people, as was the case a short time ago, are &rmnod{ with starvation. All these are the ob- stacles in our way and if we are to be discouraged we might as well go out of the government-making business. “No Government can be made in two, three, five or a decade of years. It takes time to fit and educate a people, gutv.l ‘6 13 one thing in respect to the 'hilippines that you cannot emphasize too much; statistical facts. We are organising a school system In the Fail- ippines and trying to teach them glish. We were told that it would be necessary to use force. We did not. We even 4id not have a chance. Wa opened schools and taught 100,000 pu- pils nothing but English. The neaxt year there were 280,000 pupils in at- tendance, while last year in August we had 362,000 pupils reading, writing and reciting English in the schools, and this year at the closs of the schoel year in less than seven months we will have increased that number to 531,000. I do not care what so-called leaders of ‘Filipino talk’ may say, those facts show the pains the people who have children in those islands are taking to bhave their children educated in English. It shows the apprectation of those people and their determination that their children shall be educated in such a way as to know the responsi- bility of Government. “Our funds are limited. our school- houses are not large. No one who has read colonial history of the world can fail to be proud of our English breth- ren for the wonders they have wrought in colonfal Government, but those making comparisons must look to facts, and the facts In the criticism of ;wnrxwllcy our English brethren over- 00! Popular Assembly. | “An entirely different problem faces us in the Philippines from the one England faced at Singapore. We have seven mil- lons of Christian people who have gained their rudimentary ideas from Europe, whereas the English faced Malay Moham- medans. The Spaniard—even he is en- titled to the credit of having begun the solutfon of a problem "that England, France or Germany have never attempt- ed to solve. Therefore, . through the friars, we have presented to us a ma- upon their already gained institutions and ideals of Christianity. ‘“We must expect to meet discourage- ments. Self-government is something that will take us a long time to hammer out. A year from next spring they are golng to have a popular assembly in the islands. There will be not less than fifty or more than one hundred members at- tending, men having special qualifica- assembly will be very curlous in the leg~ islation Introduced, for they have an that everything under heaven complished by legislation and of bills introduced to change turing native witnesses to gain sions so as to obtain convictions of ladrones. A question as to the rightful fie.n-ian of title of the Roman Catho- ¢ churches occupled by Roman Catho- lc priests before the change and simce occupied by so-called independent Roman Catholic churches, pressing the question of right of possession and right of prop- erty. The church, according to the pres- ent owners, belongs to the people by vota. It is a question that must be by special tribunal. Justice to Chinese “Another question is the rallroads. Congress has authorized the Philippine Government to issue $1,200,000 bonds, mot exceeding 4 per cent, to assist in the con- struction of raflroads. We pared of the tariff wiil be discussed later this evening, but the theory of the Govern- ment Is that the change in the tariff con- templated will not affect unjustly any in- terests of the country. The change will be slight in affecting the interests of the United States and will greatly benefit the Philippines. Continued on Page 8, Columa &