Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of the execution of the national hero of the Philippine Islands, Jose Rizal, will be commemorated at the University by a celebration in the Living Room of the Union December 30, at 8 o'clock. The celebration will be held under the auspices of the Filipino students in New England. A program has been arranged by M. C. Balmaceda 2G.B., to which all members of the University who remain in Cambridge during the holidays are invited...
...question now comes down to a question of fact. In the government which the Filipinos now enjoy, stable The present government is about 88 percent Filipino and 12 percent American. The Governor-General, Vice-Governor, Treasurer and Auditor are all Americans appointed by the President of the United States, and the judges of the Supreme Court, similarly appointed, have an American majority. There is a considerable American army out there and two questions which a fair-minded man must determine are (firstly) how stable the government is, and (secondly) how much of the stability is due to the fact that...
Answering therefore the question of independence, it can be said that what the United States has promised is not independence but stability; that everybody--Filipino, American, or foreigner--who lives or has interests in the Philippine Islands, has a right to expect that whatever course the United States pursues stability is assured. He should believe that justice, freedom and good order will prevail in the Islands and that no step looking toward independence of the Islands will be taken until the Filipinos themselves are protected against the evils which would unquestionably follow a lack of stability in their governmental institutions...