The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-01-18

pine stream. Both indicate great de-
posits at the source from which they
come. In one of the islands, great de-
posits of copper exist untouched.
The mineral wealth of this empire of
the ocean will one day surprise the
world. l have this statement partly
on personal observation, but chiefly on
the testimony of foreign merchants
in the Philippines, who have practi-
cally investigated the subject, and
upon the unanimous opinion of ma
tives and priests.
And the wood, hemp, copra, and
other products of the Philippines sup
ply what we need and can not our
selves produce. And the markets
they will themselves afford will be
immense. Spain's export and import
trade, with the islands undeveloped,
was $12,175,549 annually. Our trade
with the islands developed will be
$125,000,000 annually; for who believes
that we can not do ten times as well
as Spain. Luzon is larger and richer
than New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
or Ohio. Mindanao is larger and
richer than all New England. Manila,
as port of call and exchange, will in
the time of men now living far sur
pass Liverpool. Behold the exhaust
less markets they now command. It
Is as if half dozen of our states
were set down between Oceana and
the Orient, and those states them
selves undeveloped and unspoiled of
AL4s, Al.
Nothing is so natural as trade with
ones neighbors; the Philippines make
us the nearest neighboro of all the
East. Nothing is more natural than
to trade with those you know. The
Philippines bring us permanently face
to face with the most sought for Gus
toners of the world. National pres
tige, national propinquity, these and
commercial activity are the elements
of commercial success. The Philip
pines give the first; the character of
the American people supply the last.
1t is a providential conjunction of all
the elements of trade, of duty and of
power. If we are willing to go to
war rather than let England have a
few feet of frozen Alaska, which af-
fords no market and commands none,
what should we not 10 rather than
let England, Germany. Russia or Ja-
pan have all the Philippines? And no
man on the spot can fail to see that
this would be their fate if we retired.
Philippine Climate.
The climate Is the best tropic eli
mate in the world. This is the belief
of those who have lived in many tropic
countries, with scores of whom have
talked on this point. My own expert
ence with tropical conditions has not
been exhaustive; yet, speaking from
that experience, testify that the Cli-
mate of Iloilo. Sulu, Cebu, and even of
Manila, greatly surpacs that of Hong
Kong. And yet on the bare and burn
ing rock of Hong Kong our construct
ing race has buildad one of the no.
blest cities of all the world, and made
the harbor it commands the focus of
the commerce of the east. And the
glory of that achievement iilunlina! cs
with rarer splendor than that of
Waterloo, the flag that floats above it,
for, from Hong Kong's heights civili-
zation is irradating all the Orient. If
this will be Imperialism, it's final end
will be the empire of the son of M an.
The Philippines are beautiful and
rich with the healing seas pouring
round and through them and famed
by Thousand winds. Even in the
hottest season, under severest condi-
tions, l found the weather tolerable
and often delightful; and in Luzon,
Panay, Cebu, Negros and Sulu, have
been in the sun and rain without pro-
lection from either for hours at
time, travelling from place to place
on horseback, on foot or in boat,
rising at dawn, retiring at midnight,
week after week, without injury to
health. Gen. Macarthur, fighting
continuously for three months and
under fire practically every hour, was
in excellent health every time 1 saw
him at San Fernando. Gen. Lawton,
that perfect soldier, whom have seen
ride, plan, order, and execute day and
night, told me that his health was per-
feet. Gen. Otis, that devoted servant
of the republic, who tolls ceaselessly,
does not fall ill, nor grow weary, nor
complain. Maj .Hoyt, chief medical Off
Ger with Macarthur, told me that San
Fernando is as healthy cs the average
American town. The European busi-
ness men of Cebu, Iloilo and Manila
work as hard end as many hours day
as those of New York, and finer
body of physical manhood can not be
gathered at random in America.
Character of the People, Aguinaldo.
1t will be hard for Americans who
have not studied them to understand
the people. They ar barbarous
race, modified by three centuries of
contact with decadent race.
The Filipino is the South Sea
Malay, put through a process of 300
years of superstition in religion, dis
honesty in dealing, disorder in habits
of industry and cruelty. caprice and
corruption in government. 1t is barely
possible that 1000 men in all the arch
ipelago are capable of selfgovernment
in the Anglo-Saxon sense. My own be-
lief is that there is not 100 men among
them who comprehend what Anglo
Saxon self-government means; and
there are over 100000 people to be
governed. / know many clever and
highly educated men among them. but
there are only three commanding in
tellects and Observation-Disclosures, Ma.
bini and Aguinaldo. Arellani, the
chief justice OF our supreme court, is
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