Blue waters and green and the Far East today . nsistently adhered to his policy of the Phil-ippines for the Filipinos, and no American can geta job here if there is a Filipino at all competent tofill it. He has lost the confidence of the Filipinosbecause they took his vague assurances of independ-ence for a promise, a promise of early fulfillment,and when on his last trip he bade them wait, theywere furious. They accused him of bad faith, oftreachery, and when he comes again in Septemberevery word and look will be watched and is a personality that peculiarly impresses theAsiatic
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . nsistently adhered to his policy of the Phil-ippines for the Filipinos, and no American can geta job here if there is a Filipino at all competent tofill it. He has lost the confidence of the Filipinosbecause they took his vague assurances of independ-ence for a promise, a promise of early fulfillment,and when on his last trip he bade them wait, theywere furious. They accused him of bad faith, oftreachery, and when he comes again in Septemberevery word and look will be watched and is a personality that peculiarly impresses theAsiatic mind. He is the embodiment of physicaland mental power. He makes other men around himlook like thirty cents. He is firm, but gracious andkindly. He is impulsive, emotional, but back of itis a big, well-poised, judicial mind. He is suave,politic, so much so that his enemies say he is two-faced, and for a while the Filipinos looked upon himas a saint and prayers were offered for Santo was the best man we could have had there at the [84]. MANILA start, and his mistakes have been mainly those of amistaken policy, a policy that must be abandonedif these Islands are ever to thrive. The threat of a Filipino Republic keeps capital out,and capital is needed to develop the enormous resourcesthat nature has heaped up here. No man with moneywill place it at the mercy of a native government, andas a result, mountains, rich in gold, silver, copper,iron and coal, keep their treasures. Lands thatwould produce enormously of rice, sugar, and hempand tobacco are untilled. Great forests of the finest ofhardwoods like mahogany and nara, are , with a tithe of these Islands tillable land andresources, supports forty millions of people. Java,a mere speck, has thirty millions, and yields an enor-mous revenue to Holland. If when we took theseIslands we had been wise and honest with ourselves,if we had said to the world, We hold these Islandsand we shall always hold them, hold them
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