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


major doesn't know his name. But they
can average eight pounds Of mountain
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catamounts. ct lis the New York Suns
Isabella, Negroes, letter that you are read
ing 'now) We don't know what sick
man loks like.
A way back proudly referred to the
fact that had five months pay due me-
That is $7S American. I expect to get
the money shortly. I'd like to bet $50
of it on the following propositions: Take
a thousand picked men and let them I'M
dergo five months of the same exposure
and hardship in any state in the Union
that the Sixth infantry has undergone
here, and I'll bet that 10 per cent of them
will be dead and 40 per cent Of them will
be in the hospital. We've had practically
no sickness here. I'll pick 1000 men from
community Of $4,000 in the United
States from which a physician can pick
1000 equally healthy men.
Now, about the Instruction There
isn't any on this island. I can't find any
evidence that there ever was one. There
used to be a Jesse James gang and a
have got the same thing here. 1t ISM
something new that came in with Ameri-
can rule. There have been Papiecio rob-
Der bands in the mountains of Negroes
every since God made Boston. They live
in the mountain Businesses and levy tri-
butte on the plantation owners. If the
planter fails to put up, his sugar mill
goes up in flames. Incidentally they at
tack women and kill few old men and
babes. There is just one cure for them
and that is the Old Testament recipe:
determination root and branch We are
prescribing the treatment at present with
f1attering results, and the peaceful in
habtants Of the island are delighted to
find how truly good a thoroughly dead
Papiecio can be.
If the present land holders on this
island were Americans Of the type who
settled the frontier West, Uncle Sam
could withdraw every American soldier
from the island ro-murrUw WITH. <----
dence that after a couple of snually years
all would be we'll. There would ensue a
little preliminary Winchester rule and
lynch law and shortly people would begin
to ask, ~"What has become Of the Papie-
cios?" I suppose that "Lo!-the-Poor-ln-
dian,-Esq.'' of Boston would n1akesa great
outcry, just as he does now about the
brutal soldiers. If Mrs. 'Lo!-the-Poor-
Indian would only >condescend to rock
the cradle ana do the housewcrk. so that
Mr.. 10 could spend "a couple of months
over here with rs, we think we could con
vince him that it is hardly fair to class
Jesse James and Aguinaldo with George
Washington. f,u-.
The Negroes Papiecios have been run
ming their tax collection agency auu muir
dering amigos on the side for SO lone
that the Spanish land owners here hac
come to take 1T as a matter OF course
The Spanish soldiers appeared to taNe
the same view of the situation. The his
tory of Negros fails to show a single in
stance in which the Spanish soldiers
chased a Papiecio band further than the
foothills. And they would as soon have
thought of enbarking for the moon as Of
veuturing into the mountains. Now, Il
is different. A corporal and four blue
coats go into the mountains after Papis-
clos, just as they would go into the woods
after rabbits. When the Spaniards and
amigos first saw these little squads head.
ing for the big hills, they held up their
hands in horror, and the air fairly buzzeC
with warnings. Now they are getting SC
that you can yell "Papiecio." at them al
midnight and they don't faint. or the
bandits are getting fewer and roost very
high. Meanwhile, the brutal American
soldiery insist on Papiecio beef, killed ir
the mountains, and grow fat. If our ap
petites hold out for six months more
there will be no more cattle in the mount
aims and the Papieco problem will have
solved itself
With the Papiecios exterminated or if
Boston prefers she might pension them.
Negroes asks but one boon good roads.
Given good roads and Negros viii LAY the