El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-11
With the Fighting Thirty Third.
A Well Known Ell PasOan Tells the Story Of His L
With the Brave Texas Boys On Luz0n Under Gen. Ha
What Ls-Famous Charge Up 1000 Foot Mountain
Fights Cannibals.-GImores Rescue-A Splendid Gil
-Americans Should Wait Awhile Before Going

two sons OF Senior Buenc' ulnO anu
three of his nephews. His two sons
and two of his nephews will enter
Berkeley college in San Francisco and
secure an American education. The
other nephew. Felipa Buencamino, is
a brilliant young lawyer and is going
to New York to enter the Columbia
law school. to complete a course in
English. He is an unusually bright
man and is worth S3.000,000.
1T seems to me that there can be
no better evidence of the horeiessness
that the brightest ones are ceserting
it and coming to the land of the stars
and stripes to learn our ways.
The Islands Valuable Acquisition.
Il consider the island of Luzon
valuable acquisition to the United
States. The soil of the islan0 is fer
tile and the climate delightful and
healthy. l have never seen better
country for the production of corn,
tropical fruits grow there to per
lection The country is filled with
the finest springs, rivers and creeks
l ever saw. l consider it the finest
stock country on earth. Cattle, hogs
and sheep thrive there without any
feeding. The average climate is seven
ty-two degrees and the stock will al
which are as luxuriant on the noun
tains as in the valleys.
A Fine Climate.
The climate is equal to that of
Texas if not superior to it. both for
deiightfulness and healthfulness. The
soldiers who have become sick in the
Philippines owe it more to their own
imprudence than to the climate. Ten
months prior to our departure the
battalion | was in. consisting of 400
men. had only lost five men. tour from
small pox and one from acute dysen-
terry Where can that recorti be eX-
celled?
Sickness Due to Imprudence.
Il went to these islands fully inn
bued with the idea that our loss from
disease caused by the bad climate
would be enormous, but l soon dis
covered that the men Were individ-
ually responsible for any mlSfortunes
that they had in the way OF sickness.
And as for those stories o. soldiers
coming home demented will say that
the terrible intoXicants of Jhe island
which they imbibed too freely caused
the majorinty of these cases. There is
4 drink there called vino. which is
nothing less than pure woou alcohol
and will soon break down the mind
excess. This connected with the men
tai strain caused by the strange meth
DDS of fighting which they had To COM
pete with caused some minds to give
way. but the climate of the islands had
nothing to do with 1t.
The Lazy Mans Paradise.
1T is a great country for a lazy
man. All he has to do is to eat. sleep
and gather his crops. They grow
without help. \ family can easily be
supported on $50 year. Hut wages
are low. The common laborer gets
twenty cents a day. the school teach
ers and police get $500 per month. the
clerks in the leading stores. from $500
to $500 per month and others accord
ingly, all in Mexican money.
Il would not advise Americans to
go there to make their home or to in
vest in property for aCout i've years.
because the church is at present claim
ing everythin and il will tale about
that long to get the property in con-
dition to give a clear title with it.
The segregation of lands and other
property claimed by the church, to
which they have no right, - the mo-
mentous question first to be settled;
then l consider it to be a place where
Americans may go and live IN pleas
IRE and health while their Golfers will
be filled to overlooking
The transport Grant. upon which
Mr.. Polk returned home, left Manila.
on August &c. sailing thence to Nag
asaki, Japan. from which poT, it sail
ed on September I'd. arriving at San
Francisco September 22d
Mr.. Polk says that the Filipinos are
an intelligent people and have as high
tastes for fine art and mechanical
work as any country, considering their
He says the population
is only per cent illiterate, The lowest
known.
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