The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-12

i've years was the average length of SER
vice possible. 40 that the native puia-
" n. estimated at from 100000 to 49,
100000 In numbers. was always under tho
rule OF transient strangers. having no con.
tinulng interest In their welfare. There
have BEEN, OF course. Individual Instances
OF honorable and Just governors Among
those rec gnised In recent times was Gen.
ersl Blnnco. who was sfterward selected
to establish the weak experiment OF su.
tonomstic government In Cuba. II was,
however, the rule, under the very nature
OF the colonial system. that temptation to
oppress rob and cnslave the natives was
held out to every administration in sue
session, and such temptations are not
civilized and ignorant people.
49,
The population OF the Philippines was
especially difficult to hold 10 orderly gov.
eminent, Naturally q heterogeneous
mass, the problem or assimilating the
different tribes and races would have been
one difficulty to accomplish by the most
patient aid Industrious government, With
years OF application. The fercest and
most primitive savagcs inAabit the scat
tered islands. sometimes two or moro
land and ceaselessly waging war against
each other and the government alike
The aborigines arc called "Neg.itos or
little negroes, dwarfs. rarely exceeding
i've feet In stature, intractable and wary
mcuntaineers indulging In the crueiist
pagan rites OF sacrifice, including canni-
balisni, and who have resisted conquest
by retiring to mountain Businesses where
they have been slowly Diminishing in
numbers by self-extinct!oil,
The Manthras, an equally wretched but
more contemplate tribe, are nearly as
great In numbers as the Negrltos. They
are cross between the Negritos and the
Malays. and are more degenerate, after be-
Ing at one time warlike and aggressive,
The great body of the population is Ma
layan with some Chinese and few Japn-
nese.
~
historical writer on the French DIES
Deux Mondes has described the most re-
cent conditions of the endless conflict on
the archipelago in manner to exhibl,
the spirit OF Spanish colonial government
as it is displayed in the capital, Manila,
and In the restless and unconquercd prov
ipoes. There, as in Europe and America,
Spain has set upon every locality she oc-
cIpied the indelible mark OF her silis-
ter and unehanging intolerance and
Pride. In Manila, as well as In Mexico,
Fanama and Linn, was the severe and
solemn aspect the feudal and religious
stamp, which the Spaniard impresscs up
ON his monuments, his palaces, his dweii
ings. in every latitude, Manila appeared
like fragment of Spain transplanted TO
the archipelago of Asia. On its churches
and converts even Its ruined walls. time
has laid the sombre, dull gold coloring
Of the mother country. The ancient city,
solemn and melancholy. stretches inter-
minably along gloomy streets, bordered
with converts whose fiat facades are only
broken here and there by a few narrow
windows. II still preserved oil the aus
tere appearance of city of the reign OF
Philip II. But there was q new city
within the rampants OF Manila, sometimes
called the Eseolta. from the name of It's
central quarter. and this city is alivo
with its dashing teams. its noisy crowd OF
Tagal women. shod in high-healed shoes
ard every nerve in their bodies qulvering
with excitement. They are almost all
employed In the innumerable cigar facto-
ries whose output mandates all Asia. The
city contained $50, 900 inhabitants of every
kt own race and color.
From Manila throughout the archipel-
ago the religious fanaticism of the Span