Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-04
A VILE DEFANER.

them at a trade dinner in New York
| at the Waldorf-AStoria q few days ago.
In which lie abused the Filipinos and
verely; but really his TRADE amounted
| chiefly to evidence against himself. The
Professor says he was four years in the
Philippines, and knows all about them;
but he appears to have spent those
years In gathering every evil thing that
he could hear or others invent about
the Filipinos We notice, however. that
he neglected to state that Aguinaldo
and the Tasals have long tails, with
poisonous stings at the end.
Luckily for us and the truth, others
| besides Professor Worcester have been
in the Philippines and know the Fill
pinos. Just hear him:
while I was In the Philippines l met
few travellers who were willing to say
the natives were capable of self-gov-
e. nment. I don't know where they
ira eled. but if they ent mu h time
in the North their i1eas OF selfgove.n-
| ment must be peculiar. AS an inst nee
OF the CT iliaation1 many OF the tribes.
/ may tell you that they take as m CHI
| interest in making collections OF hui
man heads as our DO; s tafe in collect
| ing postage stamps. They have prac-
| tically no marriage law. Their profess
| sors Of mathematics by counting on
their toes are able to count as high as
| twenty The average man, however.
can only count as high as three. II they
see photographs of themselves, they do
not recognize the pictured face. They
are abolutely without religion"
The Professor is evidently a stuffed
goose about the Northern Filpinos as
that traveller in the Southern States
who tells his gaping hearers over the
seas that the inhabitants of the United
States are wild African Ashantees, who
go about outraging and numbering the
| few white settlers of both sexes, and
that the whites retalate by burning
| the Ashanaccs alive, as the fires that
| light the horizon in all directions
nightly give CHASTITY ties timony. We are
glad however, that he admits that the
| average Filipino can count three which
proves him superior to the crow that is
said to be able to count but two. Fill
ipino Professors Of Mathematics too,
we are told. can count twenty with the
aid of their toes,-which Is more than
can be said of Professor Wor ester. who
seems unable to count be, ond one.
The Professor unc ons iously, gives a
very true account of himself and his
kind in the following:
They are intolerant of any one who
does not agree with their views. If any
Filipino said among Fllipinos what Ia
said against retaining the islands in
our national Congress, the majority
Without adoo. would take that man out
and shoot him. That's how they treat
OPT osltion. And because Of that they
conclude that the people in this coun-
try who are supporting them must be
in the majority. They cannot under
stand how persons not in the majority
should be permitted to utter such views
and live"
Evidently. Mr.. Worcester must have
got his stories from the marines and
not from the FiIirinos, or any one on
land. Marco Polo used to tell incred-
ible stories some centuries ago about
the East. but Dean Worcester SURPRISES
him; for while the old liar told of men
who carried their heads under their
arms, worcester carries HiS OWN 1cau
in bag. and often loses it.
John S. Wise was one of Worcesters
audience at the Waldorf Astoria, and
1t would have teen as delieh as
circus had he cross-eXamined the Pro-
fessor on his statements especially as
to Filipino ignorance and their alleged
full information to political discussions
in this far off land 1t would have been
interesting to learn whether II was Mr.
Edward Atkinson. or Senator Hear
who taught The Ifilipinos- to .s4alte-eal=
lectlons of human heads-heads, mind
not skulls. But Worcester was not the
first discover OF the Filipinos; and we
had heard OF them before from Adj
miral Dewey and other sources. naval.
military, political, clerical and literary
And long before Worcester was born
these Tagals, as they are called were
| lighting for liberty and independence as
| stoutly as to-day.
"What q nice world this would BET"
exclaimed the Devil, "if 1t were not for
! fools who make so much trouble about
right and justice!'
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