Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — Insanity For Us to Guarantee Peace In Philippines [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Insanity For Us to Guarantee Peace In Philippines

by former President

of the United

States WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT,'

THE Moros have notified us that they will not stand Filipino government, and the Filipinos say they cannot take over the islands unless they take over all of them. The minute that a strong

background of a powerful govern men t is withdrawn the difference between the 'Tilipin os and Moros, who are mutinous and have no sympathy with the Filipinos and have a racial hat te d for them, will at once develop.

® bv American Press Association.

FOR US TO LEAVE THE ISLANDS AN© TO GUARANTEE TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TREATIES OF NEUTRALITY WITH RESPECT TO THE ISLANDS, THAT LAW AND ORDER WILL BE PRESERVED AND THAT THERE WILL BE NO CIVIL COMMOTION IN WHICH LAW AND ORDER CANNOT BE MAINTAINED, WOULD EE AN EVIDENCE OF LACK OF SANITY THAT I CANNOT THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD EVER DISPLAY. If they should it would not be a year before we would have to go back into the islands in order to maintain the peace that We had guaranteed to the world. As one prominent Filipino expressed it to me, "YOUR VESSELS CARRYING AWAY YOUR GOVERNMENT WOULD HARDLY GET THROUGH THE PASSAGE BETWEEN MARI YALES \\ 1) COR REG I DOR, IN SIGHT OF MANILA. BUT THE THROAT CUTTING WOULD BEGIN."