Evening journal., 1898-07-09
WHERE TO GET RICH.
Resident of the Philippines Re-
lates Their Wonders.
FORTUNES MADE ON EVERY HAND
EVEN WITH METHODS OF AGES
AGO THE HEMP, SUGAR, INDIGO,
EBONY AND OTHER PRODUCTS
FURNISH WEALTH.

when the throttling grasps Of me-
diaeval Spain shall have been shaken
from the troat of the rich and fertile
Philippines, and the islands are placed |
under the rule of free and enlightened |
America, natives Of this country will
be given an opportunity of acquiring
riches such as will dwarf into COM !
parative insignihcance the alluring |
prospects OF California in 40 and the
Klondike of 81"
This statement was made by Colonel |
Edwin Stuart, formerly an officer on
the stan OF his distinguished cousin,
General J. q. B. Stuart, "the dashing
cavalier Of the Confederacy," and for
many years a resident of the Philip
pine Islands. Continuing, he said
81 will venture the statement that
the Philippines are the richest islands
on the face of the globe to-day and dur
ing the next twenty years, thanks to
Dewey's feet and an enlightened pol
icy at Washington, fortunes OF such
princely magnitude as would open the
eye of a Monte Crlsto will be made
in the sugar, coffee, indigo and hemp
trade there by natives Of this country.
'The opportunities for making
money in trade are simply infinite. En-
ergetic young men OF pluck and a small
capital Of even a few hundred dollars
will be abe to accumulate enough to
keep them in opulence the rest Of their
days. I have lived there many years,
and know the chances for enterprls-
ing and hard-working young Ameri-
cans.
"The biggest fortunes will be made
in the sugar industry. Sugar cane
grows almost wild in the five chief
islands in the group. The decompcsed
lava soil from the extinct volcanoes,
that run from north to south through
the larger islands, side by side with the
active earthquake making volcanoes,
has the requisite qualities for making
sugar cane. Within one year the cane
comes to seed. The plantations of the
2 island OF Samar hold the worlds record
3 for the production OF rich cane to the
= acre.
T 81 have known Spanish planters on
the islands Of Samar and Luzon o.
make clear profit OF $500 per year
g from every acre. The laborers are paid
IS a trivial sum. The colored people ge
3 on an average thirty cents a week foi
. cultivating the cane. Nature does thu
q rest. With Yankee invention and en-
g ergy many a man will become a mil
= lionaire from sugar growing in th'
y Philippines, and in addition the prici
s of sugar, owing to competition, will b'
4 much reduced.
METHODS OF BYGONE AGES.
The agricultural methods in th'
a islands are about 800 years out Of date
a Ok carts are used for transportation
y and oxen for plowing. 1 have seen pant
r. ers use a bent stick for prod with a
= iron point for a plow. Think Of 1t an
y think Of what Americans will do ther
- in the nature of improvements. L
n crushing the cane and extracting tn
p juice methods in vogue in the time c
ID Cortez, Pizzaro and Columbus are sti
pursued.
"But 1 have not tod you about tn
3 islands, their number and size. In a.
r there are as many islands as there al
, in the st. Lawrence river. LuzOn, whic
Re is larger than Indiana, has a populatio
~ ~ OF 100000 souls. In Mindano are 2
IS 100000. All told tile l 800 islands hay
ic population Of 5000 900. Some island
are only half an acre in extent an
have only a few families Of savage
+ living on them.
y "The climatic cor ditions OF the Phi
e. ippines will astonilsh Merritts troop
= tx This tropical archi IIelago reaches will
n in four degrees Of the equator, and
1r in the same latit. de as VenezueA
at About 200 of the islands, varying
size from so to GOO square miles, hay
never been exploresl, and many are il
q habited by natives far more barbai
er GUS and intractaba than our Sioux II
- dians.
"Thirteen distislct and separa
C. tongues are spoken in the Philippine
in Spain has never Il: led to govern any 4
y the islands outside of Mindano, Luzo
Sulu. Samar and N egros. This was Z
a good reason-shs could not. Think
IN the task Before a IT American peop.
- but think Of the iiazzling possibilitie
k. 1t will be anOtheI case Of England
t. India.
MIIIIONSi OF AIAIAYS.
In the islands. are SOC, 900 Chimes
n' 5000 Spaniards, 8 DO British, and abo
IN $50 Americans. The natives are
Malay origin, an have the face, col
a and manner of. the Malays. Tn
d, are handsome, rc wn, 1.-the and grac
full, with hair $ black as a raver
g. wing, and with .Jaashing black eyes.