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Last week a "mission" consisting of U. S. Senators McAdoo, McKellar, Gibson and Tydings completed a three-week visit in the islands undertaken by Filipino request. Already a convention had drafted a Constitution for the forthcoming nation, had made preparations for the "Commonwealth" during the ten-year transition from dependence to independence. The four venerable gentlemen were anxious to find out how their 12,000,000 little brown brothers felt as prospective fathers of their country...
...rule. Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans. These peoples arrived by the shipload, were quartered in agricultural camps, given free housing, free water, free wood, free medical service. In spite of small wages it was a beneficent system?too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms...
...warned by wireless, arrived under forced draft at 8 p. m. Cautiously maneuvering through the murk her commander, with magnificent seamanship, brought the bow of his ship against the bow of the fiery Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton's 187 men and her cat were brought alive to Hongkong...
...Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles of Fear, a survey of the Philippines, annoyed Filipino patriots. This time Authoress Mayo, with sleeves rolled up and muck rake firmly in hand, has waded into the U. S. soldier-pension mess. Statistics and indignation darken her pages like pitch forked dung. By the time she has finished turning over her unsavory material its odor is strong enough...
...Visitors of the week at the White House were wily little President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Senate and a party of Filipino politicians. Their faction had defeated in the Philippine Legislature the first step toward independence under the Hawes-Cutting Bill. President Roosevelt entertained them at lunch, pleasantly offered to give his earnest attention to any independence plan they might formulate, when they got it written down...