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...Filipino is the most honest, peace-loving man in the world", he stated, "and, being entirely capable of self-government, that desire at all times is nearest to his heart...
Senator Osmena, also a mestico (half caste), exhibits his Chinese extraction in his importunable demeanor, impeccable manners and enduring patience. He has not always agreed with his headlong young friend, being content to guide Filipino destinies slowly as Speaker of the Assembly for almost 20 years. He would be more content than Manuel Quezon to see Philippine Independence come in three steps instead of at a bound. The three steps might be: 1) Civilian administration by the U. S.; 2) "Philippine Free State" with a U. S. High Commissioner; 3) Independence...
...time Senator James W. Wadsworth, Sophie Irene Loeb and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, to ask presidential approval of the plan of the Child Welfare Committee of America to better the lot of 18,000 abandoned and mostly illegitimate children of U. S. fathers and Filipino mothers, together with uncountable thousands of all-native orphans. President Coolidge said he thought the Philippine Legislature could pass a bill similar to the "Mother's aid" bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate when he was a Massachusetts Senator...
...matter of interest, allow me to quote the following taken from "The Military Surgeon" of August 1927 under the title "Reminiscences of the American-Filipino War, 1899" by Surgeon Rear Admiral C. M. Beadnell, R. N., C. B., K. H. P., at that time a Junior Medical Officer in the British Navy, and courteously "lent" to the American Forces, who were short medical officers...
...Filipinos, before they get independence, be taught its full implications, including U. S. tariff changes, Chinese immigration, the necessity for foreign capital.? Vincent Villamin, Filipino lawyer of Manhattan, often burned in effigy in the Philippines for his utterances...