The administrators are almost without exception all natives. The seriousness of these economic factors in the Philippine problem will grow with the years. The importation of Philippine products and the immigration of Philippine laborers into the United States will have to be prevented either by the taxation of the one and the exclusion of the other or else by the bestowal of independence. To treat the people and the products of the Philippines precisely as we are treating the inhabitants and commodities of foreign countries would be an unforgivable negation of our principles and a painful disregard of the rights of the Filipinos. It would be a grossly anomalous policy. It would be such a subordination of idealism to materialism that we ourselves would suffer from it. The only alternative is the fulfillment of our promise to give the islands independence. That would be the doing of a just thing for its own sake. but it would also be mitigating some of the hardships which the present importation of products and the present immigration of workers from the Philippines are inflicting on certain of our own population. Best of all. the redemption of our pledge would be a realization of our ideals and an example of Justice to the whole world.
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