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Honolulu Star Bulletin
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii
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Governor-General Harrison and Governor Martin aim to prioritize education and agriculture in the Philippines as their legacy. The article credits predecessors for strong foundations, praises the agricultural department, and voices concerns over dismissing American teachers, quoting the Mindanao Herald on the need for continued U.S. guidance toward Filipino self-government.
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According to recent advices from Manila, Governor-general Harrison and Governor Martin have declared that they would devote the larger part of their energy and activity in the islands to the spread of education and the development of agriculture, hoping that results accomplished would constitute their enduring monuments.
Their predecessors must surely then be credited with having provided the pedestals for such memorials, as the foundations they laid in the Philippines were both broad and deep.
In all branches of scientific husbandry the Philippine agricultural department, judging from results set forth in its regular contributions to the bibliography of tropical agriculture, is scarcely second to any similar government organization in the world. As to general education in those islands, unless the main American teachers that lately were let out there be replaced, there is room for misgivings concerning the success of the present administration.
In a recent issue the Mindanao Herald, having stated that for several years it had been giving expression "to a firm faith in the ability of the masses of the Philippine inhabitants, under proper tutorship, eventually to acquire fitness for participation in autonomous government," and expressed the belief that the public school system should be "the prime instrument for racial uplift," remarked:
"It is then with profound regret that we see this uplift work hampered by the rapid elimination of American teachers whose noble work there has but opened the vast field that awaits conquest. When the first stroke of a Filipinized legislature severs the tap-root of the country's only hope for acquiring fitness for representative government, what part of the governmental structure will be reduced to chips when the axe is in full swing with all guidance from American influence removed? Our earnest hope is that such guidance may not be soon removed. A sincere, kindly interest in the Filipino people prompts this hope."
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According to recent advices from Manila, Governor-general Harrison and Governor Martin have declared that they would devote the larger part of their energy and activity in the islands to the spread of education and the development of agriculture, hoping that results accomplished would constitute their enduring monuments. Their predecessors must surely then be credited with having provided the pedestals for such memorials, as the foundations they laid in the Philippines were both broad and deep. In all branches of scientific husbandry the Philippine agricultural department, judging from results set forth in its regular contributions to the bibliography of tropical agriculture, is scarcely second to any similar government organization in the world. As to general education in those islands, unless the main American teachers that lately were let out there be replaced, there is room for misgivings concerning the success of the present administration. In a recent issue the Mindanao Herald, having stated that for several years it had been giving expression to a firm faith in the ability of the masses of the Philippine inhabitants, under proper tutorship, eventually to acquire fitness for participation in autonomous government, and expressed the belief that the public school system should be the prime instrument for racial uplift, remarked: It is then with profound regret that we see this uplift work hampered by the rapid elimination of American teachers whose noble work there has but opened the vast field that awaits conquest. When the first stroke of a Filipinized legislature severs the tap-root of the country's only hope for acquiring fitness for representative government, what part of the governmental structure will be reduced to chips when the axe is in full swing with all guidance from American influence removed? Our earnest hope is that such guidance may not be soon removed. A sincere, kindly interest in the Filipino people prompts this hope.