Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-24
OCTOBER "a, 1900.


does anything for you as an act OF SER
vitude and you give him nickle, the
next time he will want dime and In
suit you If you do not give 1t to him.
They will ask all sorts Of prices for
their commodities and labor, and inva-
riably have two prices-one for the ma
tives and one for the Americanos. A
laundress will charge dollar for what
she will charge native rs cents, and
then continue to charge you q dollar,
although you may not have half the
number of clothes you had the first
time. They will drive up cow to sell
for $25 and, wind up by selling to ma
tive for $8. Ask them why they do this
and they will answer that the Ameri-
canos have plenty Of money; that the
Americans are rich, and that nothing
has any intrinsic value, but that they
must get all they can from the rich or
let the rich starve. They take every
advantage Of our misfortunes, acci-
dents or troubles. If anything Is ur-
gent and we want to hire convey
ance, they will charge hundred times
the regular price II they can force 1t
out Of us. They are the personification
of vengeance. They will waylay you
and stab you in the back years after
an imaginary wrong notwithstanding
the fact that they have made friends,
and have been living friendly with you
all this time. They will resort to pol
son, treachery and every vile means
known to all savage races. They Will
take the oath Of allegiance and walk
straight to their commands and take
up their arms and go to fighting US: IL.
Rudyard Kipling says they are nan
child and half devil. That Is as true
80 o.,,kl,{rr aVpr written.
The mind Of q matured man Is that OF
a boy. The Westigos, like Aguinaldo,
are like precocious boys. They learn
rapidly, but have no Judgment. They
change daily, according to the whims
of the day. Aguinaldo has not one
half Tagalo blood in him; neither has
any Of the bodies known to the world.
Many of them are Of full blooded par
entage on one side and probably one
forth Tagalo on the other. Everything
Is the rudest here. They Dlow with
stocks with no handles like the Egypt
ians Of 5000 years ago. They, push
their hoes, pEll their plows and turn
to the left. All tools and implements
are rude and flimsy. They cut down
trees, cut all their rice, hoe and clear
axes. They will saw all day on one
tree, with a saw blade an inch wide
set in a frame like a woodsaw; but up
an angle Of about IS degrees. Their
bellows are made by cutting Off piece
of hollow log, putting head IN each
end a piston rod with valve and pull
ing that thing in and out. They carry
water in boxes or anything they can
get by means Of a stick with box on
each end, and in the country they hol-
low out a bamboo and carry the water
on their shoulders. They have no idea
Of modesty or decency.
Many houses have but one little room
and a dozen people will live In 1t like
rats-worse than our Negroes. Women,
men, boys and girls are both together
in the river stark naked. They squat
like monkeys and can squat al day.
They all get round dish and eat with
their fingers, the vilest stuff ever was
cooked-rotten fish and garlic that
would turn the stomach Of an Amer1-
can buzzard. -. =
Go to a house where there Is table
and everybody gets on top Of the table
with their feet and squat down to eat.
People, hogs, dogs, chickens an0 goats
all live in the same house.
They are cruel beyond description. l
cannot describe their cruelty. They
lay a beef down to kill 1t, and before
killing it they split the skin from the
law to the chest and skin 1t down on
each side the whole length Of the neck
and thus make a bag to catch the
blood. Then they stick 1t and let the
blood run into this skin sack, and take
a cocoanut shell and dip out the blood
as 1t runs out so as to save every drop
of it. Was such torture ever heard OF
before? Everybody fights chickens:
,.ly
the great cock fighting day. They use
gaffs with edges to them like little ba-
tos. When a chicken is fatally wound
ed, they Immediately pick it clean, 30
that 1t is a common thing to see men
going along with clean picked chick
en- alive and full Of wounds and pant
ing for breath. Think Of It! I have
seen it often. First they go to church
and go through all the bowling and
scraping, crossing and gyrations known
to the Roman Catholic church, and
then they are ready for any species OF
hellish work from picking chickens
alive, vilely cutting off live monkeys'
feet, skinning animals alive, to all the
tortures Of more than any devils OF
hell can DEVISE Let me tell you. would
not sacrifice the meanest, lowest pr1-
yate black United States soldier for all
lands. Our American people are MAX
ing themselves fools-and I may say
most damnable fools about the liberty
of these people!" People? Are they
people? It Is a remarkable thing. The
wild monkeys hate them. they cannot
tame them. We can tame them ana
they will fight the Filipinos so that we
have to keep them confined. Now why
Is that?
These people ought to be subjugated,
crushed. or wiped from off the face OF
the earth. What right did we have to
drive the Indians back and take their
lands? They were far superior In ev-
cry respect to these people, and we DO
have a plain, undisputed title to these
islands, acknowledged by every nation
of the earth. Are we to give 1t up be-
cause the politicians have seen MT 10
use it as means Of getting into pow
er? Bryan? I have lost all confidence
in him. I am a Democrat; but not the
kind represented by the platform L
have read in this paper. Surely Presi-
dent Mckinley and the Republican
party do not intend to give up these Is
lands, after having acquired them as
we have.
Now, suppose we set up a Filipino
government here, and then pretend to
defend them against all other nations:
Why should we? What are they to US!
But If we do, we will soon be at war
with every nation in the world having
commerce here. They will cheat,
wrong, defraud, steal from and impris-
on foreigners, and these waters will be
full of pirates in year, and they VIII
sell us out and turn around and fight
US. Protect these people; why we had
Just as we'll set out to protect an archi-
pelago of rattlesnakes. Can you not
see that it will never do to turn this
government over to these people and
then undertake to protect them against
other powers ? 1t would be turning
our hands against the world. F1rst'
these people do not know how to gov