The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-10
TOOK LONGEST WAY HOME
DR. HARRY MOORE WAS THREE
COMING FROM MANILA.
lie Says the Great Amount of Work
Ncccssary i'm the Philippines VIII
De Profitable.

II took DR.. Harry 6. Moore three months
10 make tho trip from Manila TO his home
or Scutl. New Jersey street, in this city,
where he arrived yesterday. On his way
home he took a look at the pyramids and
the Sphinx. In Egypt, visited Bombay,
crossed the Mediterranean TO Naples, saw
Rome and then Switzerland. called on Bel
GUM. several German cities and Paris, and
deserted London for New York. He went TO
Washington on his way TO Indianapolis.
He said. last night. that he was ION the
go" for three months and liked that way of
traversing the globe immensely.
DR. Moore. who is n young man that has
lived nearly all his life in this city, was a
surgeon with the rank OF first lieutenant
i'm the army i'm the Philippines. He is not
sure whether or not he is out Of the serv-
ice for good. Three days after he sailed
from Manila a captains commission ar
rived there for him. AS it was known that
he purposed TO skip around the world with
something of the agility OF a flea. no at
tempt, which would have been futile. was
made TO communicate with him. and after
two months had passed the commission
was withdrawn, under the superstition that
he declined it. He is informed, however
that it may be possible TO recover the COM
mission. and the question in his mind is as
to whether he had better go back to the
Philippines or stay in this country.
THE FILIPINO OUTLAWS.
THE opportunities are excellent for a
young man in that part Of the world he
said, last night. though q great deal Of
care ought to be exercised IN investing cap
ital in the Philippines now 1 am more IA
miliar with northern Luzon than other
parts of the islands, because 1t was there
that I spent most Of the twenty months
that l passed in the Philippines. The out
laws are apt TO burn your property. The
country is very much unsettled now. 1t is
the outlaws that are causing all the
trouble. There have been no organized in
Surrectos for six or eight months. The out
laws hide on the hills and fire at a COM
pany of soldiers. They hope that the SOL
diers may run and leave behind them a
wounded man, a horse or some piece Of
equipment. BY the time you have deployed
your men and started after the outlaws
they have scattered.
1t was suggested to DR.. Moore that there
must be a great deal of work to be done in
the Philippines. Yes, there is" he replied,
especially educational and sanitary work.
Out of "A village of ten thousand natives
you will find, perhaps. fifty men of intelli-
gence. The Spaniards did not believe II TO
be to their advantage to educate the ma
tives. Besides, the natives must be taught
honesty. to recognize that when they give
their word 1t means something. The church
has been able to do little. The natives will
profess deep religion and keep the feast
days by elaborate professions. but they will
come out OF church and lie to YOU or steal
your pocketbook. The most intelligent men
in a village use their intelligence 10 rob
the lower class.
1.-The sanitary conditions are awful. In
Manila | was for awhile in charge OF a
plague district. | volunteered for that work
because | wanted to learn something of it.
Part OF Manila IS below the sea level, and
In part Chinese and native Filipinos
live like dogs. Forty or fifty of them
works in the street like a pack-horse all
day will pay a centavo or two for a place
to lie down under shelter at night. All he
wants is room enough for his body. and he
doesn't care how many more men are In
the room. In the chow houses food is sold
that makes one wonder how a human being
can eat ii. A Chinaman will go into one
of these places, give a small piece of
money and hold out his hands like a basin.
His hands are filled with a dash OF white
stuff and 4 dash of red stuff and a dash OF
brown stuff, and he eats 1t in the fashion
a dog eats.
HEALTH AND COMMERCE.
Here at home every one seems inter-
ested In the health condition of the Philip
pines and their commercial possibilities.
The health condition is much better than
Is supposed here. There has been a great
deal Of talk about the many soldiers that
come back insane. Many of them are in
sane because they will not heed the advice
of persons that know what they are talk
ing about. Some soldiers drink vino, a
native liquor that is almost all alcohol. in
great quantities, and that Is enough to
make any man insane. 1t is no use to beg
and plead with some OF them to take care
of themselves. They drink the native
liquor and gorge themselves with fruit
and they suffer for il. and the blame is put
into steel. The Philippine malaria is awful,
but it can be evaded IL one cares for him
self and betters the sanitary condition or
his environment.
Eyes, / believe that after the work is
lone In the Philippines the profit will be
large enough to Justify the work. III the
railroad is reconstructed from Manila
around the coast, a distance OF over 200
miles, the products of the island can be
conveyed rapidly to port. 1t will be neces-
sary TO readjust the shipping scheme, for
it is now a monopoly and the rates are
away up. The Americans will have 20 look
out for the Germans, for the latter are
buying up all the steamers they can lay
hands on. As soon as a German captain
learns the ports at which he is TO call, he
discharges all the members of the crew
that are not Germans and employs Ger
mans in their places. The m seem
determined to control the shipping abso-
lutely.
Rice and tobacco can be raised profta-
bly, on the islands. and in the interior there
are metals. / have some small gold images
that the natives in the interior worship.
This gold was found pure. Besides. the
natives I'm the interior use vessels of copper
exclusively. This copper is pounded out with
stones. So there must be gold and copper
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