Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

Kead II and hand 1t to your nelgh5or to read:
MANILA June 27-Recenty, while riding with the man.
aging editor of of the leading Manila daily papers,
passed the national cemetery at Maate Pointing the
great of fresh mounds he said deliberately Far more
of our boys who lying there their death through
bad women and drink than through the bullets of the Fill
pinos Five hundred American soldiers recently ex-
humed from this field and the states mostly victims
of drink and lust"
The speaker as competent to talk upon the sub.
ject any in the Philippines. He here with the
army. For year he has held his present position and
has been constantly in touch with current events
few days ago, had conversation with one of the
head surgeons of the First Reserve hospital in this city
About forty per cent of all the sick soldiers in the Philip
pines treated in this institution In the conversations
this official made the following statement with the under
standing that would not divuge my of nforma-
tion and thus subject him to military vengeance He said:
During the past year. little than three thousand
of yenereal d among soldiers treated
at this hospital In the total sick list about of
six of all the sick who have gone through hospitals
have been of this sort This hospital
ed among the rs but since it started we have han
died about forty per cent of the total sick We have
died about 10000 during the past year During the
time of the American occupation, about sixty thousand
sick soldiers have been treated in all of the army hospitals
in the Philippines Of these, about THOUSAND CASES
HAVE BEEN vKNRREAL DISEASES"
Like other departments of the military government the
hospital officials in Manila absolutely forbidden H.
vuge any information that does not help to reflect glory
the Mckinley administration. Thus official informa
of this sort cannot be obtained Should divulge
of the gentleman who gave this information he would
be bounced out of the service in disgrace. only say
that he at the head of of the most responsible de-
parments and in the hospital is qualified
give the facts.
With the advent of the American troops there came
abandoned from every corner of the earth H. S.
Neuens, the Chrisanzed Roumanian Jew who organized
the Purity societies of nda and who has made nel
gent study of the conditions here says that during the
first year of the American occupation EIGHT HUNDRUD
PROSTITUTES came to Manila They to assist in the
great work of pushing civilization among the unregenera
ed Fiipinos.
Not prostitute land in Manila without the express
permission of the United States military authorities OF
fcers of the military board every ship and
crossexame each passenger before they allowed to
land The passenger is questioned to his business plans
and purposes before he is allowed to go ashore 1t is
widely advertised in the states that prostitute allowed
to land but in Manila regards this rule otherwise
than a joke
Last year. this rule enforced in few cases pack
of abandoned of San Francisco, who with
great flourish of trumpes dported and the fact
widely published. Since then, it is knowledge in
Manila that women of this class who pay tip OF $50
the custom-house officers find no difficulty in getting
ashore. On the ship which brought me back from Hong
Kong two of these characters, and every
board knew that their e paid the inspectors thro
the first mate Instead of enforcing this socaed rule the
officers have actually imported dissolute womeu not
only for the three canteen bagnos in oo hut also for
in this city, which shall indicate specifically in another
connection.
The best information that can get in conversation with
newspaper police reporters and officials is that there
now about 200 reguarylcensed houses of prostu-
tion in the city In these establishments there about
600 prostitutes who under the direct control of the
military authorities, who represent American 'Chrstian
civilization here This does not include the swarms OF
loose women who have and who prowl about the
streets. 1t is simply the list of "ades" who submit to
weekly examination by the United States military doctors
and pay four pesos week for the
The prostitution business Of the city is conducted under
the supervision of regular department of the military
government the department. of municipal inspection. The
chief of this department of prostitution Captain Todd
who has under him big staff of ASSISTANTS, inspectors
doctors and Aunkies of various This military bawy
house department is alleged scientific principles
most rigid system Of CONTROL medical examination an,
official inspection is force, the system which
advertised by zeaots to remove all danger Of eontagio
of this sort"