The age-herald., 1899-12-28
JACOB (. SCHURMAN ON THE PHILIPPINES Learned Discussion of the Best
 Plan for Education. THE FILIPlNOS ARE HONEST He Believes it Would be Best to Send Missionaries of One Denomina-
 ton so as Not to Confuse
 Natives Ideas
THE FILlPINOS ARE HONEST

New York, December 27.-The Indepen- dent of the current week will contain an article by Jacob G. Schurman, president of Cornell University entitled "Our Duty to the Philippines" The following is an abstract:
 We have forty to fifty tribes to civilize and seven to eight of these tribes have some 300,00O members each. On the island of Luzon there is one tribe of million and a half people, who speak one language as totally distinct from the other tongues as Spanish is from English. Another tride- on the same island numbering about G00,0o0, is as distinct from the others in language and characteristics as they are from the Spamards themselves. Then, on the great island of Mindianao there are many tribes that are entirely different from each other. In the Sulu archipelago we come to an- other class of natives about whose custom of slavery so much has been said recently. These are all Mahommedans, awhile in Lu- zon the natives are all Catholic Christians. Therefore it would be highly impolitic to send missionaries of different denomina- tions to confuse the minds of the people. l do hope that when We send the mission aries we will decide beforehand on one form of protestant Christianity. Send only one type of missionary. The Fflipinos will then have Catholic Christianity and prot estant Christianity presented to them and they can take their choice.
 Fighting Nearly Over
 'I believe the fighting in the Philippines is nearly over and our armies now in northern Luzon will soon be required only to keep down the bandits. Tine organized army has disappeared and with it we might say the whole insurreetion. Most of the leaders of the insurrecton have been dis persed or have been won oyer.
 "I do not say that all of the insurgent leaders were dishonest. I believe that many of those who fought against the Americans were animated by the highest idea of loy- alty to independence. I think probably Agulnaldo is one of this class and that he Is an honest man.
 "One reason of the stubborn opposition to our occupation of tine islands was a legacy of suspicion and hatred for the white men which Spain bequeatl1ed to us.
 "A simple government is what is needed and every province should have it so they
 
 and intentions. In this I have urged the president and congress. which hope will be operative after military supremacy has been demonstrated and the natives thor oughly subjugated. It is a good thing that we nave such a neculus of education to be- gin with. The great masses of natives are ignorant, but one thing being in their fa- vor is an unsuitable thirst for knowledge
 But one thing I wish to emphasize more than any other point that I have dwelt up- on. We must make an honest civil service appointment institution on the islands The best man in the United States is none too good to go to the Philippines as govern or. He must met out justice to all and teach the Filipinos by his decisions and example that he is their friend. By send ing out such a man we will succeed, but if we send an ordinary political appointee we shall fail. I am confident that the right man will be sent and then our experiment will be national success"