The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-02

Is the principal market The entire in
terror Of the island Is covered with forests
seldom penetrated by the white man. who
are in constant dread OF the pirates.
Col. Hiider. Of our bureau OF e,hnology.
who has visited the Philippines. recently
said that he had seen slaves working
openly in the fields of Mindoro. the large
island which Is in sight of Luxon, where
our war with the Fflipinos now exists.
II think said he. that we Will have a
more interesting time with those Sulu
fellows than we are now having with the
people of 1suzon. Being Maiays 'nnocu-
lated with Mohammedanism. they believe
implicitly in slavery. One morning when
in these waters we saw Chinese Junk
drifting about aimlessly. as II utterly
abandoned. We let down a boat. boarded
her and a shocking sight met our eyes.
Her deck looked like a slaughter house.
Blood was smeared from one end TO the
other. Not a soul remained aboard.
After taking a few souvenirs, we finished
the work of the pirates. who had tried to
fire her. Otherwise she would have re-
manned a menace to commerce I mis- sort
OF piracy has been pretty well broken up
of late by England. because ii reached
her colony In Borneo. Ii still exists.
however. though directed mostly against
native vessels. The captives. Of course.
are carried away as slaves now as before.
What the writer's Of some years ago say
about this slavery can be depended upon
to apply today. There were no changes
for the better under Spanish rule
We will doubtless have to wage war
with the Moros before they can be made
to abandon slavery, and just as Col Hill
der prophesies. we will probably have
more serious times with them than We
are now having. with Aguinaldo's follow
ers. Spain failed to conquer them because
she feared the general hatred of the Mos
lem for the Christian. Our soldiers Will
find them to be fierce foes at close quar-
ters. They take great care OF their arms.
On making an attack they make hideous
tect their heads and bodies with Inn
mense shields. below which their legs are
kept vibrating to resist missiles When
bayoneted they seize the barrels of the
soldiers muskets and drive the steel
further into them. that they may get
close enough to kill their adversaries be-
fore falling. They behead their enemies
by peculiar continuation Of the same
movement with which they draw their
huge knives Just previous to our war
with Spain the resident governor of Sulu
protected the lives OF himself and stan
by establishing picket lines about the
capital and ordering all Moros to disarm
under the arm of Spanish soldiers before
crossing them. A governor who neglected
to secure himself thus had his skull split
to the teeth by sultan Harum. whose
warriors massacred the town. The Span
ish home government. knowing the dam
ger Of the post. was In the habit of APP
pointing officials suspected OF republican
ideas to the governorship OF Sulu.
BY wiping out slavery In the Philippines
President Mckinley will simply carry out
the thirteenth amendment OF the constitu-
ton, which forbids slavery. not only In
the United States. but In "any place sub
ject to their Jurisdiction" No further
action by congress will be necessary.