The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-10

price Of the sovereign are gone The
liberty of the Philippine citizens IS an
ment of the United States has recog-
nized, and while explaining the funda-
mental principles of its policy, IS anX-
1OuS to know what are the hopes anu
aspirations of the inha bltantS- Ine
FT1pinos air their views IN the cot
unlns of La Democracia and give their
opinions on such important quest1ons as
the representation of the people, edu-
catiOns public works, the administration
of justice, religion, industry, IN tact,
everything that means complete auton-
omy. The people deplore the fact that
hOstiHties have not ceaSed-that they
ever began-because lit is not neces-
sary to have recourse to arms IN order
to accomplish their object. TheY want
the stars and stripes to wave forever
over these islands and they hall with
pleasure the establishment here OF
American institutions.
ears of Manila he wishes that some en-
terprising American capitalists would
establish a cable or an electric nne me
present cars can only comfortably seat
ten persons, but they usually carry
twenty-five. They are so low that
American heads are not 1nfrequently
bumped numerically. The cars are
drawn by two lazy. scrawny ponies,
whose chief delight is baking. The
cars easily go off the track, and then
everybody must get out ana push
To make the trip from the Bridge OF
Spain to Gale Alix-frOm my office TO
my residence-requires usually about
fOrty-fiVe minutes. Electric cars would
cover the distance in ten. This fact IS
exasperating, to say the 1east-especial-
ly when one is in a hurry.
The rainy season is upon US, and rain
storms are of almost daily occurrence.
Last night q violent electric storm &C
cOmpanied the rain which lasted for
several hours. About three o'clock
yesterday afternoon the world gradual
ly grew dark, like water when INK IS
poured into it. In the south the heavens
were of a curious metallic hue-a livid
gray, as it were; while across that
hung two belts of deepest purple that
remained motionless, while other and
lighter tags of vapOr were intertWisting
with each other or melting away into
nothingness. The two clouds were not
| of the usual cloud form at all-they
were like two gigantic tOrpedoes lying
horizontally, one above the other, and
there was a sombre deafness OF hue
/ about them that looked OmlnOuS-
Suddenly, as I stood at my window
! watching those long purple swathes.
| there ran across then-springing verti-
1 cally upward-a Quivering line of yellow
/ flame-SO thin 1t was, 1T appeared like
4 a thread of golden wire-and when that
/ had vanished, ensued second or two of
! silence, followed by a duh, low rum
bling noise that seemed to come from
! afar off.
noticed a few days since a, report
| of Mr.. Wildman, consul general Of the
| United States at Hong Kong. He stated
j
+ made in the development of the natural
/ resources of the Philippines until the
/ Chinese exclusion laws are removed. He
/ says that there IS not an industry IN
| the islands that will not be completely
] ruined if Chinese labor is not permitted.
/ Consul WiIdman has expressed the
sentiment of every person who is
! acquainted with the conditions in this
part Of the world-there is only one
/ kind of labor that succeeds here and
| that is Chinese. Doubtless many
] Americans adverse LOOKING
| at this matter in this light, because in
| America a white man can perform man
| ual labor and are naturally opposed to
the competition or an inferior class OF
| people. In consequence the Chinese are
| excluded from the Philippines in ac-
J cordance with the will of the people, as
they are from Australia. In this cOun-
| try it is next to impossible for white
I man to do hard work. because Of the
I excessive heat. hence it becomes neces-
! Sary to fall back on some other kind
| count to do mental work They are
4 content with SO little and have am
! bitiOn to make money If they have to
: work for it. They do an absolute min
imum instead of displaying, voluntarily
/ energy and activity.
When house Is to be built. when a
/ ship is to be built, when lumber is to
be sawn, when a railroad is to be con-
| structed, the Cinnamon must be found
! to do it.
Many of them are skilled laborers and
! most of them are enterprising mer-
! chants. They have done more to de-
/ velop this country than any one else
| If the archipelago is to be further de-
/ veloped, Chinese labor must do it; let
! US hope that Consul Wildnian's protest
| against the present exclusion act will
! be of avail. It should be repealed.
There are large sugar, tobacco and
/ coffee industries springing up here in
/ Luzon and in Panay, Negroes and Min
| danaO-and there is plenty of room for
! many more. At some future time I will
/ treat this subject of sugar, coffee and
( tobacco raising, comprehensively, at
/ considerable length.
The troops here at San Fernando, in
| Guiding the Twentieth Kansas. are fair
ly itching for fight. They want this
! niger business wound up as they
express it. I have not learned when a
move is contemplated on the north line.
but it is more than likely that an adj
| vance viii be made within few days,
| at most.