The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-22
HON THE CTVILIzING PROCESS
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HOW THE CIVILIzING PROCESS
No doubt the wise men OF the adj
ministration of the stamp of the Ohio
senators and congressman have long
since concluded to their own satisfaction
that the Philippine problem la1l for
ever. Even the recent forage of armed
natives, resulting in the loss of many
valuable American life, or the more re-
cent declaration imputed to the impris-
oned Philippine leader, are not in them
selves sufficient to disturb the equanim-
ity of that general class of statesmen.
The only possible cause of mental I'M
easiness is, no doubt, the effect of the
Forthcoming decisions of the supreme
court on the subject of the Philippine
tariff.
1t would be interesting to learn how
the, average thick-and-thin administra-
tion politician receives the declarations
CT Congressman John F. Shafroth, who
has just returned from a visit of observa-
ton to the islands. They We're made
known in a recent issue of the Rocky
Mountain News.
Congressman Shafroth, strange to re-
late, still believes that the Filipino ma
tives are capable of self-government,
Notwithstanding the capture of Aguinal-
do and the hopeless defeat of William J.
Bryan as presidential candidate. He
does not think that it is altogether just
to. the Filipino native to treat him as on
a level with the Apache Indian. He has
never seen any Apaches fill medical pre-
scriptions written in Latin. nor acting
as bookkeepers or cashiers in banks or
business houses. The number of mer-
chants. or of professional or scientific
men whom he has met among the Amer
lean aborigines has never impressed him
as tending to prove the Apache to be
worthy of better fate But in Manila
he has met the little brown man" play
ing the role of clerk, telegraph operator,
ticket agent, conductor, railroad engineer,
musician, druggist, merchant doctor,
lawyer and even astronomer He has met
him on his way to school, to college and
to church in vast numbers and he has
not found as large a proportion of him
in jail as he has of his own superior
race.
So, it happens that Mr.. shafroth does
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Filipino was designed by nature to fur
IRISH food for the civilizing powder of
his Yankee guardian
Nor, indeed, does this recalcitrant con-
gresham accept the system of govern
nent devised by the administration
statesmen for the savage Filipino as of di-
Philippine islands are about the same
area as New Mexico, whose governor
draws the princely sum of s., GOO per an
mum, Mr.. Shafroth pays his respects to
the civil department of the civilizing ma
chinery in the following terms:
Think of a commission, appointed from
Washington Ca place 10000 miles from the
Philippine islands, composed of men who
never saw the land they govern prior to
the Spanish war, who do not speak or
read the language of the Philippine peo-
pie, and who are not even of the same
race as their subjects, voting to each
member salary which is nearly double
that of cabinet officer of the greatest
nation of the world, and three times that
OF senator of the United States, and
voting to territorial governor a salary
more than double that of the governor
How must such action appear to the
Filipino laborer, who, furnishing his own
food and lodging, earns only Is cents in
gold day.
How, indeed? But, then, who cares for
the Filipino laborer? Who knows in
deed, that there is such a mortal? There
are bolomen, of course and subjects of
the sultan of Sulu, who sit in their
harems all day and smoke Filipino to-
bacco. There are also great numbers Of
half-breeds Cinnamon and some army
runners. But-laborers! What nonsense.
AS if anybody except the American civ
ilizer ever labored in the Philippines!
Congressman Shafroth has sought the
rude disturbance of happy administra.
tionists dream just what success has
come or will come to his efforts we can
not hope TO determine until congress
meets and we uniformed mortals are
made wholly aware of the full extent to
which our national civilizing endeavors
have been carried in the far-off archi-
pelago.
A report comes that the new ship sub
sidy bill differs in every respect from the