Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-14

vania there was not single Moro. All
were drawn from the emigrant Filipinos.
who inhabit the most Of the coast towns
OF the island, and live on terms Of amity
with the Moros so long as they do not GO
into the interior. The Fflpinos concluded
one afternoon, when another two hours
work would have finished the unloading,
that they had done enough for the day:
and no coaxing, threats or Inducements
would change their minds Such occur
FENCES as this make the employer long for
Chinese coolie labor, without thinking that.
once the Chinese has a monopoly, he too
Is more creature OF moods than we gen.
orally suppose. Perhaps we do not look
at the question enough from the Fflipino's
own point OF view. 1t Is when We threaten
him. and even use force to make him work,
as We sometimes have done. that he finds
in his own mind proof Of the assertions OF
his leaders, that We have come here TO
make him a slave, to work long hours to
satisfy the uncalled-for and extravagant
energy Of the white man. Moro slave
does not consider his position at all bad:
he does not do two hours hard work day
besides that of unloading a ship against
his will as a part Of white mans discipline.
"HOt Rolls From the Bread-Fruit
Trees.''
The Filipinos food comes easily to him;
his demand for clothes is slight: he expert
ences none Of the struggle for the sheer
necessities of existence of the man inhabi-
tant of a temperate Cline and he regards
working for more than the necessities OF
life in much the same light our own
workman at home regards twelve-hour
day In time We may educate him-I be-
lieve we will-to be greater consumer,
and consequently greater producer. The
Moro We can never educate to work any
more than We did the American Indian IL
we could, would have In the govern
ment farm near Zamboanga some fore
taste of the wealth which Mindanao might
produce. General kobbe is taking great
interest in this farm which was run and
conducted by the Spaniards with contract
labor. and yielded to the Spanish govern
ment in it's products of hemp and copras
(cocoanuts) $4,000 gold a year. 1t sug-
gests the possibilities of the country with
native workmen under intelligent direction
American enterprise and ingenuity, If they
can get the force to do the manual labor
which they plan. can accomplish such Won
derS in Mindanao the British have
worked in Ceylon. But We cannot depend,
for pacifcation of country where life
and property have never yet been safe out
of the range of the guns of white mans
navy, upon white emigrants as in our
western states, where they built cities and
towns and defended themselves. Only in
that distant age, when the land of the
temperate zone is so overriden with popu-
Iation that the struggle for existence has
brought us to the plane of the Chinese,
will white man do manual labor in Min
danao
Practically we exercise sovereignty only
in that portion of the town which has
buildings of the Spanish style. Presidente
Medell rules the Filipinos and Datto Mandi
rules the Moros. 1t was Medell who COM
mitted murder In order that we might
occupy the town without opposition He
invited the insurgent commander Calixta.
to visit him, and when CaUS.a and his
staff reached point in the road marked
by Medell the presidentes assassins killed
Calixta by a volley. Calixta was Fill
pino radical. determined to fight us to the
last ditch. Medell thought 1t wise to be our
friend. Colonel Petit of the 31st is now on
trial before a court martial for having
turned a prisoner oSAr to Medell who is
accused Of taking private revenge by hav-
ing the prisoner executed.
Medell Is weak, emaciated and dying Of
consumption, but the devil shines out of
his sunken black eyes