Evening star., 1901-12-07

1 afterward heard that he did so and !
am sure he eventually found out what
was getting
There is little possibility OF any one
keeping such matters a secret. The gov
ernment collects an income tax on all sal
aries and even the government officials
have to pay. The assessment is equal to
about per cent. and you have to declare
your salary to the collector of taxes. Your
declaration Is filed In the recorders Of
flee, and the government clerks allow the
information to go out.
Newspapers in Asfatfc Holland.
am surprised 10 find daily newspapers
away out here south of the equator. There
are plenty of them. Every town OF any
size has its big paper. There are twenty
six published in the Dutch colonies. There
are six in Sumatra. three in the Celebes
and seventeen in Java, FIVE printed in the
Malay and Javanese languages and twelve
In Dutch. The largest circulation is that
OF the Batavian news sheet, which comes
out every afternoon, and the most I'M
portant, perhaps, IS the Javasche Courant,
the official organ of the Dutch government,
which is issued from the government print
ing office. where all the government books
and papers are published. This establish
ment issues the school books, printing thcm
In different native languages. 1t publishes
notices IN Chinese. Jayanese and Arabic,
as all proclamations have to be put forth
in four or five different languages
fishers and also with the editors of the
different newspapers as to how the Dutch
are treating the natives. They have
changed their policy during recent years.
For long time they ran Java exclusively
for themselves. but they are now running
1t more for the Javanese. They are try
ing TO educate the people and to give them
modern ideas Many fear that education
will spoil the people as workers, but they
say they must educate them notwithstand-
ing. They look upon the Javanese as tkcIr
part of the white mans burden, which they
wish to carry as credtably as any of the
other nations of Europe.
Educated Natives.
Many of the natives are already well edu-
Gated. 1 have written of the native
schools. They are found everywhere and
the number OF students steadily increases.
The leading native officials speak the
Dutch and Javanese languages. There
are natives In private business who have
had good educations. There are some doc
tors who have taken a medical college
course and been awarded diplomas. They
are licensed by the government to practice
and they do great deal of work among the
natives. Native doctors are used in all the
hospitals and they are to be found every
where occupying different medical posi-
tions under the government.
There is no doubt that our government
can learn much here as to the develop
ment of the Philippines. The Dutch
have scientifically developed Java. Within
a few years they have increased its popu-
lation from 100000 to 25,000.000. and at
the same rate the Philippine Islands could
support population equal TO that of the
whole United States. The Dutch have all
sorts of experimental farms and gardens
here. They have the finest botanical gar
dens of the world at Buitenzorg, and in ii
every sort of tree and plant that VIII grow
in the tropics. They have some of the best
botanists and agricuturists in their en-
ploy, and they are always testing the diff
ferent varieties of soil for tea, coffee and
other plants.
Tea, Sugar. Coffee and Quinine.
1t was through the Dutch officials that
the immense tea. coffee and quinine planta-
tions have been built up. A hundred years
ago there was not cincnona tree in Java,
and now three-fourths of the quinine of the
world is raised here. The coffee estates
were practically destroyed by the blight,
but through the government the Liberian
coffee trees were introduced and Java has
again become rich a coffee land. The
government started the tea industry and
millions of tea trees have sprung to life
upon a thousand hills. There has been
trouble with the sugar estates, but the gov
ernment experiments are remedying the
defects. and the same care is shown in the
cultivation of other things. The govern
ment has set out forests of valuable woods,
and in fact, it acts like the manager of a
great estate, making it It's duty to develop
Java for the Javanese.
The Dutch have spent millions of
dollars here in making roads, in building
railroads and Irrigation works. The inter-
nal improvements of Java are almost as
fine as those of Holland, and / venture to
say there are no such roads in the world
as here. / doubt whether better civil en-
gineers can be found than those who have
been in the employ of the Dutch govern
ment. and as j have said before it would
pay Uncle Sam well to send here for ad-
visers to our authorities in the Philippines
If this is done it must be by good salaries
The Dutch pay their colonial officials more
than we are paying our men in the Philip
pines. and salaries of S100 week in the
higher places are not uncommon. There
are natives here who are getting S25 week