The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-02-17
EDEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

the land with the shalp end of a crookeS
{, stick and 1t blossoms dollar You
couldn't stop her from growing rice with
! anything short of, a special providence
IL they had free rein, the Papiecios
couldn't burn the canefelds fast enough
| TO keep her from producing a sugar crop.
Negros gives greeting and welcome to the
man from Louisiana with the capital to
! start. She will clothe him in purple and
! fine linen. If he dislihes water, she will
build him a palace at Nagasaki where he
may spend the rainy season. And she
| will give him a monthly vacation al
Aongkong and an allowance of chang;
that will enable him to lose 81 ,OOO-jack-
pots smiling.
| The man who knows how to grow things
| isG't. the only one to whom Negroes ex-
tends greeting. There are all sorts of OPP
| portunities here-some of them ripening
and some Of them ready to pick right
now. Rock Island, Moline, South Bend,
in fact, all the plough towns in the states
need representatives over here The
sugar planter wants a light draught, turn
| ing plough, American make He has a
very few now and likes them, and wants
| thousands more. They can be made to
! meet his requirements still better by MAX
| ing the right handle detachable During
| the early blowing he wants only one.
! He pays net gold, on the nail. He also
wants an American harrow, and knows IT,
He wants American padlocks and hasps
and staples and bolts and nuts and nails,
He'd buy American boilers and engines
| for his sugar mills just as cheerfully as
! those of Glasgow make. All he wants is
| the chance. .-...'5
The average natives ideas of meum
and tuum are lax. The planter would
welcome a small iron safe, such as
| certain firm manufactures for country
| rostmasters. ,.,'
Inc planter does not want the An1eri-
| can day laborer. No one wants him in
| Negros. Even the Cinnamon refuse to be
Gay laborers here They keep little shops
and smuggle on the side. Native day
LABOR costs so cents, Mexican and less a
| day. Steady jobs pay only 81, Mexican,
week good Filipino cook. who can give
the salt and pepper to the average Amer
| lean boarding house cook and best her,
gets ST, Mexican. month and what he
can steal. I've heard that there was a
demand fer American mechanics in Ma
MIA 1t may be true there. There is GER
talnIy no such demand out here in the
rsanagua. A Filipino bla cksmith here
gets 81, Mexican, a day, and pays his own
helper. There are plenty of native sta
t1onary engineers They are boiler-burn-
ers' but they answer the purpose, and the
present planters probably would not ap-
preciates better men. Clerks either of the
5 salesman or ookkeeping variety, arc not
wanted at any price. The Japanese,
Chinese and natives speak the dialects
and I'LL such places ~acceptably at merely
nominal salaries
lnere Is one kind of man who is want
eu mere, and he's a mighty scarce man.
lhat is a white; man who comes up to
these specifications: He must be strong
ana healthy. He mu st understand grow
ing and milling cane: He must, know how
70 hahdle native laborers and have a
thorough insight, into native character
re must speak Spanish and Viscayan. He
| must be Just boss, but he must be boss
There will be times when he rnust drive
ne is wanted as a plantation overseer.
For twelVe-month more he will csrrv a
winchester on his shoulder and POSSIBLY
get the chance to- use it. The Spanish
planter wants this man. He will appreci-
ate his go-aheaa energy, his force of
character, and his direct methods-also
what he admiringly calls ''his box,' mean
Ing ms hst The first place Spaniard's
eyes wander when he meets an American
IS TO MS rknuckles. His admiration of
American proWeSS in this direction is 1n-
1elgned and enthusiastic. This is also
true OF the natives. One Of the wealthiest
spanish planters in this region, Senior
HollJos, honors me with his acquaintance
and esteem. I stood talking with him on
street corner of Ginanigran one day
| when two American soldiers, lust trife
the worse for tuba, mixed it up in the
middle of the street Other bystanders
say 1t was a lovely fight. don't Know.
for l put in my time watching Senior
Holijos. The man was transtiXed with
delight. He fairly quivered with ecstacy,
His mouth was open with the fierce
quicker of a man about to taste rich
wine. 1 could see the play of sympathetic
nerves in his face. His eyes stuck out
and glistened. And when at last the
knockout blow was landed he turned and
fairly Rugged me, and almost danced rs
he shouted: 3. ...>
Bravo! Bueno! Bravow
AS to Spanish prejudice, don't let any
one tell you that the Spaniards of Ne
gros dislike Americans. They are a BUSH
| ness people. They own property that they
wish to develop They hailed American
occupation with delight and look forward
| to American rule with confidence. Jack
Dempsey once gave me a few boxing les
sons Jack" he said. boxing is the
art of making friends. You never have
q true friend in this world until you We
thrashed a man and then patted him on
the back and said, old man, you put up
the gamest fight ever went up against
| After that you can trust him with your
| wife or your money" : 1t strikes me that
! this is the attitude of the Spaniards of
Negroes toward the Americans. They
! reason that it took pretty good men SO
| thoroughly to thrash the Spanish army
and navy and that consequently we are
| q pretty good thing to tie to. How long
j they will thus esteem us / can't say.
! They'll now buy about anything at any
price if you say 1t is American made.
Senior Holijos wore a heavy gold watch.
| I carried a Waterbury,. He examined il
each time we met. One day he inquired: :
.tAmericano?' -r- 80. pr" f. j.
Isl, Senor," said I. .9<r
I blush to tell it. He offered and gave
| me $50 Mexican for that Waterbury. Ana
| YOU couldn't buy his bargain to-day.
| Spanish etiquette forbade me to refuse
] his offer, unless I.wished to make him q
present of it.. Any way, I couldn't con-
scientiously cheaper American goods, ana
1 was hard up and had been invited to
toba-talk and dance that evening"; where
was likely to be a monte as well.
Another time in Ginaigram I was at my
wits end to raise So. 7 finally thought
of a little housewife with which the Red
Cross presented me in San Francisco. l.
| contained two papers of safety pins; just
twenty all told, think. took these
| safety-pins to the native market an,