Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES [ARTICLE]

FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES

"I have no light or knowledge not common to my countrymen. I do '< not prophesy. Tlie present ts ail-absorbing to me. But I cannot bound ( niy vision by the blood-stained trenches around Manila—where every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier or a misguided 1 Filipino, is anguish to iny heart-twit by the broad range of future , years, when that group of islands, under the impulse of the year just past, shall have become the gems and glories of those tropical seas-a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities; a people redeemed from i savage indolence and habits, devoted to the arts of peace, in touch with the commerce and trade of all nations, enjoying the blessings of freedom, of civil and religious liberty, of education and of homes, and whose children and children’s children shall for ages hence bless the American republic because it emancipated and redeemed their fatherland, and set them in the pathway of the world’s best civilization.”