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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It was gratifying to read your impartial and carefully considered editorial commenting on General Aguinaldo's coming visit to this country. College men are so often accused of seldom reading periodicals aside from their own college publications that the space you have thus given to the Philippine problem has undoubtedly presented the case to hundreds of Harvard men who are continually misled by the prejudiced articles in other papers. Certainly it must have interested the many who have been more than surprised to learn that there are Universities in Manila, and that the archipelago is not entirely "made up of forests and jungles" as a Junior once frankly put his conception of those islands.

Reserving my own convictions and party affiliations in regard to complete autonomy. I feel it only fair to place before you the answer to your question which those favoring independence would proffer. To quote Senior Quezon's declaration before Congress in reply to the frequent query of "Wry should not the Filipino people be content with American rule?" "I will answer", he said, "in the language of that great apostle of human freedom, Daniel Webster. 'No matter how easy may be the yoke imposed by a foreign power, if it is not imposed by the voice of his own nation and his own people, he will not, he cannot, and he means not to be happy under its burden." Mr. Quezon concludes: "And we can be friends, only if we are not your subjects. There can be no friendship between the ruler and the ruled. There can be no friendship unless there is mutual respect. And you cannot respect us while we are treated as your wards. These are no perfunctory words". MARCIAL P. LICKAUCO '23

April 11, 1922.