St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-28

extends greeting. There are all sorts of
opportunities here-some of them ripen-
ing and some of them ready to pick right
now Rock Island, Moline, South Bend,
in fact, all the plough to WINS in the States,
need representatives over here. The
sugar planter wants a light draught,
turning plough, American make. Hehas
very few now and likes them, and
wants thousands more. They can be
made to meet his requirements still better
by making the right handle detachable
During the early blowing he wants both
handles. AS the cane grows tall he
wants only one. He pays net gold. on
the nail. Healso wants an American har-
row, and knows it.
He wants American padocks and hasps
and staples and bolts and nuts and nails
He'd buy American boilers and engines
for his sugar mills just as cheerfully as
those OF Glasgow make. All he wants IS
the chance.
The average natives ideas of meum and
tuum are lax. The planter would wei.
come small iron safe, such as certain
firm manufactures for country postmas-
tiers.
The planter does not want the Ameri.
can day.laborer. No one wants him on
Negros. Even the Cinnamon refuse to be
day.laborers here. They keeplittle shops
and smuggle on the side. Native day
labor costs so cents, Mexican. and less
a day. Steady jobs pay only ST., Mexi-
can, week. A good Filipino cook, who
can give the salt and pepper to the aver
age American boarding house cook and
best her, gets Sc, Mexican, month and
what he can steal. I've heard that there
was demand for American mechanics in
Manila. 1t may be true there. There is
certainly no such demand out here in the
managua. A Filipino blacksmith here
gets ST.. Mexican, dav, and pays his
own helper. There are plenty of native
stationary engineers. They are boiler
burners, but they answer the purpose,
and the present planters probably
would not appreciate better
men. Clerks, either OF the salesman or
bookkeeping variety, are not wanted at
any price. The Japanese, Chinese and
natives speak the dialects and fill such
places acceptably at merely nominal
salaries.
There is one kind of man who is wanted
here. and he's mighty scarce man.
That is white man who comes up to
these specifications. He must be strong
and healthy. He must understand grow
ing and milling cane. He must know
how to handle native laborers and
have thorough insight into the native
character. He must speak Spanish and
Viscayan. He must be just boss, but
he must be boss. There will be times
when he must drive. He is wanted as a
plantation overseer. For a twelve
month more he will carry a Winchester
on his shoulder and possibly get the
chance to use it. The Spanish planter
wants this man. He will appreciate his
go.ahead energy, his force OF character,
and his direct methods-also what he ad.
miringlv calls "his boxP meaning his
fist. The first place Spaniard's eyes
wander when he meets an American is to
his knuckles. His admiration OF Ameri.
can proves in this direction is unieigned
and enthusiastic. This is also true Of
the natives. One OF the wealthiest Span.
ish planters in this region, Senior Hohjos
honors me with his acquaintance and
esteem. stood talking on street cor
ner of Gnanigran one day when two
American soldiers, just trifle the worse
for tuba, mixed it up in the middle of thu
street. Other bystanders say it was q
lovely fight. / don't know. for put ID
my time watching Senior Iioljos. The
man was trans6xed with delight. He
iairly quivered with ecstacy. HIS mouth
was open with the fierce pucker OF a man
about to taste rich wine. l could see
the play OF sympathetic nerves in his face
His eyes stuck out and glistened. And
when at last the knock out blow was
landed he turned and fairly Rugged me
and almost danced as he shouted:
Bravo! Bueno! Bravo!"
AS to Spanish prejudice, don't let any
one tell you that the Spaniards of NJ gros
dislike Americans. They are business
people. They own property that they
wish to develop. Tfey hailed American
occupation with delight and look for
word to American rule with confidence
Jack Dempsey once gave me few boxing
lessons. Jack" he said, boxing is the
art of making friends. You n.ver have q
true friend in this world until you've
thrashed man and then patted him or
the gamest fight ever went up against.
After that YOU can trust him with your
vile or your money" 1t strikes me that
this is the attitude Of the Spanlards o
Negros toward the Americans. They
reason that it took pretty good men sc
thoroughly to thrash the Spanish forces
and that consequently we are pretty
good thing to tie to. How long they
will thus esteem us / can't say. They
now bus about anything at any price /
You say it is American made. Senol
Hoiios wore a heavy gold watch
carried Waterbury. Senior HolUos ad
mired my Waterbury. He examined il
each time we met. One day he inquired
Americana?
Isl, Stnor said l.
blush to tell it. He offered and gave
me $50 Mexican, for that Waterbury
And YOU coul Int buy his bargain to day
Spanish etiquette forbade me to refuse
his OFF, unless | wished to make him {
git OF it. ANYWAY, couldn't conscient
iouslv cheaper American goods and
was hard up and had been invited to
tuba-talk and dance that evening, where
there was likely to be monte as well,
Another time in Ginaigran was al
nv wits ends to raise SIS. / finally
thought of little housewife with which
the Red Cross Society presented me II
San Francisco. 1t contained two papers
OF safety pins; just twenty all told,
think. I took those safety-pins to tn