The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-27

tion thus imposed. The revenue goes
to Spain to pay the soldiers and navy.
There is no escape from these taxes.
| have seen women whipped in the
rural towns because they had perhaps
failed to get a license before they sold
their annual crop Of cOcoanuts, or had
seCreted a COW or a goat so that the
tax collector did not see it in ms Of
ficial rounds. For the collection Of
taxes the Spanish have revived the
plan which was in use in France be-
fore the revolution of 1883. For each
district of 1900 square miles tax col
lector is appointed by the governor of
the province. He is called a gOberna-
dOrcillo and he is responsible for the
estimated amount which his district
should pay in taxes, so that if col
lections fan short he must make them
good from his own pocket. He has un-
der him a number of deputy collectors,
known as CabezaS, each of whom col
leCts the taxes of from forty to sixty
tax payers, and is personally RESPONSE
BILE for the amount expected from each.
If they fail to pay up he distrains
their property and sells it. If the pro-
ceeds of the sale fail to cover the in
debtedness the delinquent debtors are
imprisoned | once saw a dozen rag
ECd, working men ON the island
of Samos that had lost their houses
cattle, lands and who still owed sums
ranging from 50 to $40. They were be-
ing sent prisoners to the jail yard at
Punta ChaVallas, while their families
We're left to shift for themselves.
INSURRECTIONS.
"A large book might be written
about the popular revolts that have
sprung up I'm the Philippines because Of
these tyraunous expressions. In 1876
the natives lost 5000 of their best men
in rebellion against Spain. In 1882 they
lost several thousand more men, and
600 Of their leaders were beheaded and
shot to death in squads at the garri-
sons at CaVite as warning to other
sympathizing rebels. The present re-
bellion broke out last June and was
quelled for a time by Spanish troops.
Last January 100 rebels were shot in
the suburbs of Manila. Suddenly the
rebellion broke out again, and now 1t
seems to be the most general revolt
yet known in the islands. The intent
of this last rebellion seems to be to
rid the Philippines of the Spanish by
any means-whether by dynamite, poi
son or assassination. The natives
hoped for q year or two that Japan
would assume control of the islands
and that the hard, cruel hand of Spain
would be removed. When they found
that their hopes were groundless they
rose in armed rebellion. General
Schlatter, who was sent to the Philip
pines by the German government last
August to look into affairs there, re-
Torted that the Japanese are leading
the revolt. There are 10000 Spanish
regulars on guard in the islands. The
insurgents last fall numbered about
46,000 Of whom 5000 were armed with
good guns. The insurgents have few
good cannon cast from melted church
bells ana bits of metal that they gath
cred here and there, Manila, like Ha-
Vana, has naturally been in control of
the Spanish troops, and the insurgents
nave been carrying on "A warfare forty
and sixty miles from Manila, similar
to that of the Cubans about Havana.
"In the sumRaAE Of 1896 the order Of