The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-11

i1LADELPHIA, Pa, JuIv, IN
When the grasp of Spain shall bays
peen shaken from the throat of the rich
and fertile Philippines, and the island.
are placed under the rule of free AMI
enlightened America, natives of tbis
country will be given an opportunitv
Oh acquiring riches such as win diva -,
into comparative insignifcance the al
IurIEg prospects of California in "a
ana the Klondike Of 81"
This sta; cement was made bv Col Ell
win Marshal Stuart, formerly an officer
On the staff Of his cousin, Gen. j. p. r.
stuart, the dashing cavalier of the
ConIederacy For many years the
coloEei was resident of the Philip
pine Islands. Continuing, he said: II
VIII venture the statement that the
Ildllpplnes are the richest islands on
the race Of the globe today, and, dur
Ing the next twenty years, thanks TO
DeWey,s fleet and an enlightened policy
a. Washington, fortunes of such
Pilncely magnitude as would open the
eyes or a Monte Cristo will be made in
the sugar, coffee. indigo and hemp
trade there by natives of this country.
Inc opportunities for making money In
trade are simply infinite. Energetic
young men of pluck and a small CAM.
TAI OF even few hundred dollars will
pe apie to accumulate enough to keep
them IN opulence the rest of their DAYS.
l nave lived there many years, and I
KnoW the chances for enterprising and
hard-W working young Americans.
-, The biggest fortunes will be made In
the sugar industry. Sugar-cane grows
almost wild in the five chief islands in
the group. The deccmposed lava soil
from the extinct volcanoes that rim
from north to south through the larger
islands, side by side with the active
e-making volcanoes, has the
requisite facilities for making sugar.
cane. In one year the cane comes to
seed. The plantations of the island
CT Samoa hold the worlds record for
the production of rich cane to the acre.
nave known Spanish planters on
the Islands of Samoa and LuZon to
make clear profit of $500 per year
from every acre. The laborars are
paid trivial sum. The negroes get on
an average OF 80 cents a week for Gull
tlVatlng the cane. Nature does the
rest. With Yankee invention and en-
ergy, many man will become a mill
lona1re from sugar growing in the Phil
fppines, and in addition the price of
sugar, owing to CO A)etition, will be
much reduced.
ANCIENT METHODS.
The agricultural methods in the ISL
ands are about 300 years out of date.
OK carts are used for transportation
and oxen for blowing. have seen
planters use a bent stick for prod.
with an iron point for pillow. Think
OF 1t, and think of what Americans
VIII 90 there in the nature of improve
mentLs. In crushing the cane and ex-
tracing the Juice, methods in vogue in
the time Of Cortes, P.zarro and Corun-
bus are still in use.
But have not told you about the
ISLANDS, their number and size In all
tnere are as many islands as there are
In the st. Lawrence river. Luzon.
winch Is larger than Indiana, has a
popula tiCn of 100000 souls In Min
uoro are 100000. All told the 200 ST.
/ ands have population of 5000 600,
Some islands are only. half an acre in
extent and have only a few families OF
saVages living on them"
The climate conditions of the Phil
lpp1nes will astonish Merritt's troops.
lhis tropical archipelago reaches with
IN degrees of the equator, and is. in
the same latitude as Venezuela. About
ZO0 or the islands, varying in size from
5O TO 600 square miles, have never
peen explored, and many are inhabited
by natives far more barbarous and in
tractable than our Sioux Indians
Thirteen distinct and separate
spain has never tried to govern any of
the islands outside of Mindoro, Luzon.
Zebu, Samar ard Negroes. This was
Tor a good reason; she could not. Think
OF the task before our American peo-
pie, but think of the dazzling possibili-
Iles, IL VIII be another case of Eng
land in India"
I'm the islands are 100000 Chinese.
5000 Spaniards, 500 British and about
$50 Americans
Inc natives are of Malay origin,
and have the face, color and manner
OF the Malays. They are handsome.
brown, 1.-THE and graceful. with hair as
black as ravens wing, and with
nashlng black eyes. In all there about
100000 of them. In some of the ISL
ands they are absolutely wild, and eat
human flesh. On the Pomolu islands
the natives have practiced human sac
rifice for 200 years. / was there once
with several indigo buyers, and we
saw the skulls of score of the ma
tives stuck on bamboo posts as a pro-
pitlation to some spirit.
MONEY IN HEMP.
But enough of these narrowing de-
tails. 1 was telling you about the fu-
ture chances for money making. Aside
from sugar, hemp is the greatest arti-
Gle Of export in the Philippines, and
about 40 per cent of all grown is sent
to this country. One firm in. Boston
paid an average of cents a pound
in Manila for $4,000 tons of hemp in
the ten years previous to last January.
For the past ten years the export of
hemp from the Philippines to this coun-
try has been worth $2.400,444 a wear.
There are immense possibilities for
hemp culture. now that the Spanish
will be driven out
What the Americans have done in
the fertile valleys of Hawaii during the
last generation Will be duplicated in
the Philippines in the next Indigo
plants grow In incredible luxuriance
in the Philippines. The soil is so fer
tile. that least labor gives surprising
results. Indigo plants yield double the
capital used. Think of that. Many
of the richest families in Manila-peo-
pie who live in Paris and Madrid about
one-third of the time, and keep up
royal esta blishments-have made their
princely fortunes in the indigo trade
The Alvarado family owns an indigo
plantation of some %, 900 acres. and de-
rives from 1t a revenue of fully $40. 900
year. The least enterprising Ameri-
can can see chances for limitless i'm
provements there, and could double the
profit
"Cocoanut trees are sources of i'm
mense revenue. The nuts are demand
ed in the markets of the world as
much as oranges or lemons Profits
of $3.50 an acre from cocoanut farms
are usual. Every part of the tree is
used The juices make oil and wire.
the fiber of the leaves is woven into
cloth and the husks of the nut are
shipped to England by the boat load
to be manufactured into door mats.
To the native the cOcOanut tree is tha