Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-05

having Just sucn noble lace as that
which appealed SO to your sympathy,
bearing down hard on the machine in
feet together. The agony on the with
cred little brown face is something that
will haunt You the rest of your days.
Again there will be shown to you a
poor little native child stretched upon
a rack. face downward, and another
Spaniard cutting the blood out of him
with a cat O nine tails
When you see these horrors, the
blood stiffens in your veins and you
say; 'Let Spain go Oh to her fate. She
deserves all she has had TO take and
more too. Posing as civilized Chris
tian nation, she has descended TO the
level of the lowest savages in her treat
ment of these her own subjects.
have seen the pictnres mentioned
above. A native photographer has a
stock of them on which to nourish his
hatred of Spain. So soon as he feels as
sured that visitor to his gallery has
no sympathy with the Spaniard he
brings out these views. He has vari-
ETY. of them. did not believe when l
saw them that they were actually taken
from life. 1t seemed to me they must
be made up, copied from drawing, or
something. But they are from the life
What is more, officers of the American
army themselves took some of the pho
tograrhs.
Seeing those terrible pictures, l un-
derstood more Of the cause of the ma
tives' outbreak against even their best
friends, the Americans, than a volume
could have told me. From the first set
tlement of the country by the white
man the natives have been beaten and
tortured. 1t has always been the Gus
tom among Spaniards TO beat and whip
their Tagalo servants here. The friars
used to inflict terrible punishments on
them. A Spaniard here said few days
ago that be would then and there have
whipped one of his servants. a man as
old as himself. if he had not been afraid
the American authorities would have
him arrested for it. Thus much our
army of civilization has accomplished
already. | know Of at least one Spanish
woman in Manila who keeps up 10 this
day the heroic old practice of beating
her servants with whip. Maybe they
will turn on her some day.
Added to this physical cruelty and
degradation there was the fact that the
white man had cheated the Tagalos out
of their lands year by year and by hook
and by crook getting the most and the
best of everything material and reduc-
ing the original owners of the soil more
and more to poverty. 1t is not in hu-
man nature-white, black or brown, or
of any age, sex or previous condition of
servitude-to forget these things So
in the poor. little. brown brain grew
generation by generation hatred of the
white face
When the Americans came to Manila
and gave arms to the natives to use
against their former masters, the Span
iards. they believed in their muddled,
heather way that deliverance had
come at last; that if they helped whip
out the queens soldiers they would be
rid forever of the alien race. The same
sort OF dream it is that even some red
Indians Of the United States cherish to
this day.
1t put new face on things when the
Tagalo got it into his narrow brain that
after all the Americans were not going
to leave the Philippines How could
he know indeed that to be citizen of
the great American Union is to be the
freest, most fortunate man among the
nations todayY He could not know that
under United States rule the whipping,
wrong and oppression would cease. How
could hef ALI white faces looked alike
to him. However well Aguinaldo and
his shrewder half Chinese advisers un-
derstood the situation, beyond doubt
the ordinary Tagalo saw in the Ameri-
can occupation of the Philippines only
a change of masters. and he prepared
to resist the yoke of the new master to
the utmost. 1t must he regretfully
mentioned, too. that there was and is
on the part of American soldiers who
had been drinking too much an occa-
sional instance of wrongdoing toward
the natives. This did not happen ex-
cept rarely, but it only served to con-
firm the natives belief in the total de.