But in view of the fact that the days of
the present Administration at Washington are drawing to a close, it is hardly likely that the matter will be left here, and the Washington Star states that the Democratic Party will make the Philippine question an issue in the coming Presidential campaign. In the meantime, a boycott of American goods and American newspapers published in the Philippines has been decided upon, says the Philippine Press Bureau at Washington. Several American journals agree with the Hartford Times that the Admin- istration cannot postpone indefinitely consideration of the issue of Philippine independence. " How can a people," they ask, " with a Lexington and a Bunker Hill in their history, and who have adopted a declaration stating that all just government is derived from the consent of the governed, definitely refuse the demand of the Filipinos ?"
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