The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-03

and hayonet However, the presence
of arms and ammunition usually form
an efTective ngument in arranging dipio-
matte surrenders. Gold, too, is great
peace-maker. and the annuity which the
United States gives to the sultan Tor his
good will and friendly offices Is q wise
and economical expenditure, considered
from a humanitarian standpoint.
These people are envlroned by Ideas
habits and customs, bequcathed to them
by the centuries, and, while force OF
arms may declmate their numbers, 1t
cannot, per Sc. add to the permanent
enlightenment of their race. Coercion
with bomb or Bible, however well in-
tended, only violates and inhames the
half savage, superstitlous, tmpulsiVe ma
lures OF the uncouth islanders. They
think Christians are their mortal ene-
mics, and that 1t Is their religious duty
to kill missionaries Their Ignorance -
so dense they have not yet discovered
TINT we are Christians, and by the time
they find this out they may have n bet
ter opinion Of the people who come I'M
der this name.
Nearly all the Moros are devout Mo-
hammedans, and guard their religion
more tellsously than any other institu-
ton They resent interference In their
faith more quickly than anything else,
and nothing would PROBABLY disturb
the peace and arouse them quicker than
the presence Of american mission
aries.
Their religion permits man to have
several wives. Priests perform the
marriage rites, and man cannot mar
nv q. woman II she protests too strenu-
ously. Just how much she could object
and still comply against her will, do
not know: but there is probably q GER
tain fixed degree OF demonstration which
the man in the case must accept as
rejection OF his suit When a man
IS much married he lives a certain num-
Der OF days with each wife. and avoids
Jealousy by treating all alike. Parti-
Aallty could not be tolerated. The ele-
ments OF human nature are not unlike
the world over.
A Moro may readily get rid Of his wife
by sending her to her parents, with the
statement that he has no further use for
her. She IL. in this way, divorced, and
cannot be bride again for three
months and four days. IL her husband
dies she Is compelled TO walt before mar
rying again, month longer than when
divorced
Last week couple Of officers who
were riding along the coast, came acvoss
half n dozen natives VINO nhu just OeTu
slashed to death by other Moros. Their
bodles were yet warm. and life hardly
extinct. The native who accompanied
the officers jumped or his pony and
made few vigorous sinbs and siashes
into some OF the bloody and bleeding
bodies. for the purpose. ne said, OF try
inf his new knife, which Is their. chief
weapon Of warfare These knives are
large and heavy. aud one skillful stroke
will bisect man.
by patient. careful discipline firm, IN
telligenl leading. il wise and honorable
direction. the sunlight OF civilization
may sometime penetrate their beniShted
iniellects, and elevate them to kinowl-
edge OF setter morals; 10 an appreciation
OF u higher life; to an understanding OF
civil government; even to an accept,
once Of Christianity, the fulcrum or
modern progress the keystone of cul.
tured society and the safely valve OF hui
man liberty. ID. u. DENphS'