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Smyrna Times
Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware
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President Schurman of the Philippine Commission declares there is no Filipino nation, describing the archipelago as a diverse collection of Malay tribes speaking over 60 languages, arguing the insurrection is not a national uprising and no entity exists for treaty with the US.
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President Schurman Makes a Forcible Utterance Regarding Our New Possessions.
President Schurman, of the Philippine Commission, touched the fatal defect in the anti-expansion contentions when he said in his Ithaca utterance:
"The insurrection is not a national uprising. There is no Philippine nation. There is a multifarious collection of tribes having only this in common, that they belong to the Malay race. The multiplicity and heterogeneous nature of the tribes is something astounding. Over 60 different languages are spoken in the archipelago. The speech of one tribe is unintelligible to its neighbors."
These facts go to the heart of the whole controversy. There is not and there never has been a Filipino nation. If the people who have so much to say about Filipino independence would investigate the real conditions they would be compelled to see that there never has been any power with which the American Government could treat.
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President Schurman states the insurrection is not a national uprising due to the absence of a Philippine nation, describing a multifarious collection of Malay tribes with over 60 different languages, making speech unintelligible between neighbors, and arguing no power exists for the American Government to treat with regarding independence.