Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — SAYS ALL FILIPINOS WANT INDEPENDENCE. [ARTICLE]

SAYS ALL FILIPINOS WANT INDEPENDENCE.

••It Is frequently said that only the politicians In the Philippines want independence, but I do not think such is the case;" said Dr. D. M. Gandler, superintendent of the California AntiSaloon League, who has just returned from the Philippines. "I have met all classes of people from various parts' of the Islands and all alike seem to me to desire independence. I am inclined to think that they have the ’ability to govern themselves. We are developing a social and political con-' science in America* and they will develop one there: and I very much doubt that they will learn as fast under present ’conditions as they would under complete Independence. Independence in some form Is bound to come and I Inclined to think that it had better come soon."