The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-05
HE ATTACKS
our SOLDIERS
J. N. Peyton Says Those in
Philippines Are Rakes.
MANILA SAID TO Be A HELL HOLE
Army Secretary OF the Brotherhood Of ST.
Andrew Speaks His Mind.
ARMY OF DRUNKARDS AND GAMBLERS
Cad Effect on TagaIos Batter Spsnd Monsy for
Filipino College Than for Dewey Arch,
Army Secretary Of the Brotherhood Of ST.
Andrew Speaks His Mind.
ARMY OF DRUNKARDS AND GAMBLERS
Rsd Effect on TagaIos Batter Spand Monsy for
Filipino College Than for Dewey Arch,
This Coed Nan Declares.

New York. Oct. 6.--John II. Peyton
army secretary OF the Brotherhood OF
St Andrew. who was sent to the Phil
ippines last spring by Bishop Doane.
of Albany chairman Of the Protestant
Episcopal board Of domestic and for
cgn missions. has lust returned, and
is going to ST. Louis soon To make a
report there before the missionary
bus. at the annual convention of the
brotherhood Of which he is secretary.
lie calls the American troops now In
Manila. or there when he left there.
"drunkards. rakes and gamblers" and
says that religious effort is out Of the
question from American missionaries
SO long as there ds an army. and such
an army, az living examples. and, to
the Tagalo mind. fair examples of Am
erican civilization and Christianity.
Mr. Peyton saws education must be-
first undertaken. but even thai cannot
be prosecuted until peace is obtained.
and he suggests that IL would be far
better 10 put the 100000 which 10 would
cost TO make permanent the Dewey
arch i'm Madison square into college
10 be located in Manila.
ORGANIZED A MISSION.
Mr. Peyton served in one Of the
Southern regiments during the Spanish
war and did brotherhood work at Mon
tauk. While i'm Manila he helped 10 or
ganize Holy Trinit~ mission there -
first Episcopal work in the Philippines,
but the work IL has been able To ac-
complish has been little. Speaking II
conditions there he said:
Without any qualifying exceptions
the Tagalos are the most moral and
the most religious people / ever saw
or read of. a reason for their morality
is. | think. their early marriages. The
people are well educated in small things
read n little. figure a l,r}e. and then
at once their education goes into saint
worship. the mysteries of indulgences
and all that superstructure OF ecclesi-
asticism with which the Roman church
has overtopped and overloaded the
New Testament.
But thev are mere children in so far
as they are able to govern themselves.
II would never do in my judgment. for
the United States to abandon them.
Apart from what European nations
might do were we To haul ont.
there could be no lasting settlement.
The Tagalos could govern only them
selves at most They could not hope to
control the other principal races of the
islands. and there would result a LOT
of petty states too weak to take caro-
of Themselves and too ignorant and too
preiudicsd 90 ioin in one united state.
But the Tagalos could not govern them
selves. for with American power gone,
the Roman priests would not let them
do So. Go back a little and see what
was the cause of the outbreaks in 1S9,
and 1895.
NOT AGAINST ROMANISM.
THE cause was on both occasions the
same 1t was not against Romanism.
for the Tagalcs knew nothing else, but
against the Interpretation OF Roman
ism. the administration OF it by the
friars. Were we to leave. the fl'lars
would suav. and there would be the old
condition OF things
THE chance at the present time fos
Protestant effort? No chance at all.
1t is practically useless TO undertake
TO d. anything. there until the United
States troops depart or reform.
There are fortv-fiVe thousand Anne
rican troops on the island Of LuZon. |
cannot give figures. and ft is not need
full TO do SO. The United States has in
and around Manila at this moment. or
had when / left a few weeks ago. $4,000
drunkards. rakes and gamblers. @:
course there are exceptions. but they
are not worth mentioning. The state
ment is sufficiently accurate. When
American troops landed i'm Manila
there was only a saloon or two in the
whole place and this one or two bore
respectable names; were nothing at all
Ike what we know as saloons.
FRONTIER TYPES OF SALOONS.
Manila TODAY Is a hell hole. There
are four hundred and thirty or more
saloons typical places OF the Western
frontier or worse. and as | live. the
saloons are more respectable than are
many W the ether places within tho
CITY which Americans have efthor
planted or keep alive by their support.
Il am aware that it may be an un-
gracious thing to characterize Ameri-
can soldiers as drunkards. rakes and
gamblers. | cannot help il. The sin
Is not mine. Nor is the sin wholly thar
Of our troops. mean there are few
MITIGATING circumstances. The men are
far from home. and restraint is absent
from them.
THAT which ought first to be done in
Manila Is to complete the military op-
crations Then patient educational
work should be undertaken. and upon
Christian foundations. Evangelical
meetings are not needed now and will
not be needed for many years To come.
FiHpinos must first be educated on 9TH
er than Roman church lines. Lastly.
ard graduailv we shall be able 20 lead
rhem to Christ-not " necessity Pro-
testant christ hut the Savior who is
preached and taught here nv all re-
iigicais bodies Roman Catholic includ-
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