Besides the issue of international security there are vital considerations encompassed in the independence question that only the irresponsible. the thoughtless. and the heartless would ignore. Separation from the United States means to the Philippines loss of tariff protection. dislocation of industries. depletion of foreign and domestic commerce. increase of invisible debits. dearth of capital and death of credit. poverty. unemployment and diminished labors com. pensatlon. collapse of the exchange position. removal of American support to the Philippine financial structure. increased taxation while the peoples taxpaying capacity is reduced to impotence. and the resultant chaos in the social order. Separation also means exclusion of Filipinos from the United States under the immigration law. discharge of Filipinos from the United States service. loss of American military and diplomatic protection. and addition to the contracted Philippine budget of a heavy item of expenditures for defensive establishments. to the detriment of the work of internal economic and social amelioration. These are facts. not theories. and they are vastly important facts. They concern very deeply the poverty or the prosperity. the peace or the absence.of it. of the Filipino people.
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