, 1901-12-05

fully repaid for the effort it cost them
to get there.
DR.. Condict is a very pleasant
speaker, highly educated and fully in
love with her subject. She spent
some time in the PHILIPPINE Islands
and is thoroughly c~onversant with the
people there and their needs. The
stereoptican plates used in her lee
ture were, as stated in last weeks
Sun, all from photographs which had
been specially colored by Japanese
artists, and each scene presented the
people and their surroundings in
their natural %colors, which made each
scene as realistic as though the audi
ence were on the ground.
DIR. Condict speaks in the highest
terms of the natives of the Islands
and says they are a warm hearted, gen
erous, intelligent and peace-loving
people, who now that they are begin
ing to understand the Americans and
the spirit of their government, are tax
ing kindly to the form of government
being set up in there midst. The
Filipino hated the Spanish people
for they received nothing at the
hands of their rulers but cruelty and
oppression; the moving spirit of the
Spanish people seem to be to crush
out the life of their subjects by
force of arms, capital punishment and
imprisonment, for the Islands are filled
with dungeons and immense prison
houses, wherein thousands of Fill
pinos were allowed to rot there lives
away for some trivial o%ffense.
Having been treated with so M UGH
crulty by their rulers it is no wonder
that they should expect the same
kind of treatment from the Americans
when they came into power. They
had never come in contact with the
higher civilization, as represented by
the Constitution of the United States
and for a long time they failed to I'M
derstand it, hence their effort at driv-
ing the Americans from the Islands.
One instance will suffice to show
their ignorance of the new regime:
The Catholic church was the domi-
nant religion and everywhere were
immense cathedrals and monasteries,
filled with monks and friars and the
people were compelled, on pain of
imprisonment and death, to not only
support the Catholic church, but to
attend its services. In some portion
of the Island of Luzon, the natives
destroyed the churches and when the
Americans came, they fully expected
the friars would be driven out.
1t took a long time to explain to
them that the American Consti-
tuition held every mans reli-
gious belief as sacred and hat every
where under the Constitution each
person could worship God according
to his OWE belief, and that the friars
could not, for that very reason, be
be driven out of the Island. But now
they are beginning to understand
what perfect freedom under the Con-
stitution means and the more intelli-
gent of them have accepted American
rule with joy and gladness and are
urging upon all classes to do the
same.
The result is a great thirst for
American ideas, literature, and man
ner of living. Anything the Ameri-
cans do is just right and they are
pleading for American modes of
thought, Of education, of dress, of
business and their clamor is pathetic
and calculated to stir the hearts of
all who come in contact with them.
They are like children, from the ED
est to the youngest, trustful and af-
fectionate, now that they begin to
understand that all the Americans
intend to do is for their betterment
and uplifting. Their young men
are being educated in American
thought and civilization and sent out
in great numbers to teach their own
people the ley civilization and there
is a wonderful field for usefulness
and good, opening out to every one
who wishes to take a hand in this
great work, either in person, or by
the giving of money to provide liter
ature for the great hunger that is
growing all over the Islands.
The Philippine Islands are a veri
table garden spot. The climate is
different from that of almost every
other tropical country, made so by
the sea breezes. 1t possesses almost
every degree of temperature in per-
manent perfection, for there are