New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-18

they do In the first place they have to work. and
hard too to get food enough 10 eat. That means
and all the rest of it. Then he and his family must
almost a costI for ner must N have
house that will be large enough TO shelter them
also barns and sheds for his stock and tools All
these things are necessaries, and many man
works lifetime and scarcely manages to provide
them.
superTuous; and as matter OF fact does not come
into the scheme of life of an islander. Clothes are
Iefba Hoi sr ana Fo GqaT h @o b OF } M
0r al all b and P The fr Pe n nf 1b .o[ n4 I'M
easily support life, and with little rice and some
of people A house is a superiority, but i is Gus
tomary TO make one out of bamboo splints and
grass A lazy man can build one in week, with
no outlay but the cost of a Ratchet 70 cut down
the little Trees And so the people are naturally
Under the Spaniards, wages about s. per
live right up to the standard OF the community. I
doubt If they are ever willing TO work regularly.
matter what wages given them AT the
same time they are here. and are going TO stay,
Americans and will envy il and be disc0ntented
Signs of that are already visible. When there
doesn't much matter for in time they die on as
the Kauakas have nearly done but with eight
ten millions 1t is another story.
CHARACTER OF THE NATIVES
In Luzon. in all but a few mountain tribes the
natives have a certain amount OF education, and
ands they are more barbarous ana are mostly
Mahometans. The Tagalos here little brown
tons amount TO much. They have neither brains
character. The most that can ever be
made of them is TO turn them into COntented
peasantry. and even that IS big job From what
| have seen of them | believe that serious.
moral foundation of character exists in them: they
childish in their Ideas. and in their morals they
liars. thieves and assasstns.
or course. may be all wrong in this estima
No really seems 10 know anything about them:
but that is the way they Impress At the pres
ent time the characteristic attitude of most of
them their own political situation Is indiffer-
ence-prObably owing 10 ignorance. Very few OF
the immense population have been in arms: IL the
nation had really been determined have its in
dependence II would have been madness TO think
of subdurg them. Given leaders il Is always posi-
ligious and the surprising thing me is that so
few have gone of with Agunaldo-uot over thirty
thousand among three million adults. Just now II
looks as II all organized resistance over. but
murder and robbery are increasing every day. and
will need stern measures to stop American rule
what II will he for Uncle Sam remains he seen
The hardest thing out here 20 understand is how
II Is possible for the SpaniardS to have done
little They have had the islands for four hundred
FOR no doubt the people worse of than they
would have been IN their uative savaEerv. 4 man
with eyes in his head does need 10 be on
shore an hour In Manila to read the story of the
tyranny and impotence Of the Spanish Is
shown cOnclUsivelv in the character Of the town.
almost entirely of splendid churches. government
buildings and barracks for soldiers and outside the
walls a commercial town TWO hundred wears
hind the times. and then bowels and shaCks OF the
most SGuald description. where the FfiiuiuOs herd
like swine. Such thing n prosperous middle
and slave. It is certainly well that that rule is
ended.