Review of reviews and world's work . mon language, and whohave no background of history. There are Americans who oppose our^the^FriarT ^^^^S ^^ ^lie Philippines on the per. fectly understandable argument thatwe are not called, upon to make such altruisticsacrifices. Those men are able to see that weare doing a marvelous work for the Filipinos ;but they are not able to see that we are gettingany commensurate benefit, either present orprospective, for ourselves. When Senator Hoarand the other antis talk about sullen andirreconcilable enemies, whose hatred cannot beeradicated in centuries, they a
Review of reviews and world's work . mon language, and whohave no background of history. There are Americans who oppose our^the^FriarT ^^^^S ^^ ^lie Philippines on the per. fectly understandable argument thatwe are not called, upon to make such altruisticsacrifices. Those men are able to see that weare doing a marvelous work for the Filipinos ;but they are not able to see that we are gettingany commensurate benefit, either present orprospective, for ourselves. When Senator Hoarand the other antis talk about sullen andirreconcilable enemies, whose hatred cannot beeradicated in centuries, they are talking of asituation that is changing so steadily and sovisibly that it would be safer to say months, oreven weeks, than hundreds of years. The prac-tical question of the friars and their lands is ahundred times more interesting to the Filipinosthan Mr. Hoars question of abstract month Judge Taft visited Rome, with fullinstructions to negotiate, on a business basis, at 10 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IEW OF CAiiDINAL the A^atican, for the purchase of the agriculturallands held by the religious orders, and for thewithdrawal of the deeply-hated friars from theecclesiastical and civil life of the PhilippineIslands. The Pope received Judge Taft withevery mark of consideration, and a committee offive cardinals,—composed of Cardinal Rampolla,papal secretary of state, and Cardinals Vives yTuto, Steinhuber, Gotti, and Vannutelli,—wasimmediately appointed to join the Americandeputation in working out the details of anagreement. It promptly became known tliatJudge Tafts errand would be entirely successful,and that tlie land would be acquired by theGovernment, at a fair price to the ecclesiasticalholders of the title, so that it could be made overon suitable terms to the native farmers who haveheretofore tilled it as tenants. „ , . Tlie question of land titles in ;>:eneral Substance i . Rather than lias been given careCul consideration,hadow.
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