Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — MUST HOLD THE PHILIPPINES. [ARTICLE]

MUST HOLD THE PHILIPPINES.

Poultney Bigelow, Writer and Traveler, on Situation in Eaat, A London dispatch to the New York Herald gives an interview with Poultney Bigelow, the well-known writer and traveler, who recently returned from the Philippines. He is of the opinion that the United States must hold the islands and that the Americans must soon show the Filipinos that they are masters. Mr. Bigelow bewails the lack of business talent among the American officers at present in the Philippines, which, he declares, is required to grapple with and successfully handle the colonial question.