Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-31

exist do not be impatient If its complete
abolition is not accomplished In twenty
minutes. "Britons can never be slaves
and 1.-The slaves letters drop from him as
soon as he passes under the British flag"
Yet Ceylon was fifteen years a British pos
session before the abolition Of slavery was
proclaimed; and another fifteen years and
a legislative enactment were required to
make the proclamation effective. The sug
gestion of compensated emancipat ton in
Gen. Bates ag1 cement with the Sultan Of
Sulu Is in line with the precedents. Both
Java and Ceylon offered to compensate the
slave owners. though in both cases for the
reasons stated they managed to accomplish
| emancipation with the payment of very lit
| tie cash. 1 was told by British official in
Singapore that at the present time through
compensated emancipation England is
slowly making Britons (who can never be
slaves) Of section of the population of
Zanzibar.
Use the Natives as Civil officials and
as Soldiers.
Java and Ceylon not only advise the most
considerable treatment of the natives in all
| relations with them. protection of their
means of support and their employment
wherever possible in civil official positions,
| to which they can be safely utilized in the
military force as auXiliaries. Two-thrds
| of the Dutch army in Netherlands India
are natives. The single imperial regiment
| In Ceylon has over 200 natives associated
with it, and by its side is volunteer regi-
| ment of Ceylon Asiatcs. Spain, prior to
| the last insurrectfon, maintained in the
Philippines a civil guard numbering 3,4S2
and an army of 1921. of whom only 2,21O
| were Europeans). Exclusively European
| officers are employed, as a natural safe
| guard. and as similar precaution native
| troops are stationed elsewhere than in
their home province Java and Ceylon sug-
gest for the Philippines. after the islands
are quoted and on a genuine peace footing,
the extensive use of natives auxiliaries.
with American officers, and with Tagalog
| and Visayan soldiers stationed in the
| southern Philippines and Moro soldiers in
the Tagalog and Visayan Islands. The good
policy Of the immediate use of native
troops. on the same basis the Maca-
bebes. arming them at first. perhaps, with
an inferior rifle using different ammunition
from the regular army supply and difficult
to replenish by deserters, has been strong
ly urged in conversation with me by sew
eral capable army officers.
The teaching Of the Dutch and English
policies in the Java and Ceylon Of today
is that American welfare and that Of the
Filipinos coincide and are promoted to-
gether; that whatever advances the mater
ial interests of the Philippines will benefit
the republic also, and that the nation can
not permanently and with success selfshly
separate its interests from those of the is
lands, but must profit by sharing in the
local prosperity, which in cooperation with
the Filipinos it will create and develop.
At every step of the present stage of
Luzon's development the experience of
Ceylon and Java will repay study.
If the uses to which the precedents of
the Dutch and English islands may be put,
specifically suggested by me. are syste-
maticaly and thoroughly developed, Java
and Ceylon may hold lantern to guide
Luzon's footsteps in safety over many
dark and difficult path.
THEODORE W. MOVES