The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-01
TEACHERS ARE INDIGNANT.
ARE TOLD THAT THEY ARE TO BE
SUBJECT TO NATIVES.
No Arrangements for Supplies are
Made-Indignation Meeting Sends a
Lengthy Gable to the President.

An ear witness of the course of lee
lures delivered in Manila by f. W. At
kinSon to the American school teachers
states graphically the reasons for the
preceptors wishing to give UP their
chances in the Philippines of teaching
the young Ftlipinos how to shoot and
unning a fair chance of being shot at
~ the aforesaid young Filipinos.
In the first place." said the infor-
mant, there seems to be a general
tendency on the part of the authorities
10 deal most delicately and carefully
With the supposedly delicate feeling of
1e Tagalogs and above all a fear that
Catholics are going to be offended
he new Americanism.
lr Atkinson in his remarks stated
Roman Catholicism was the reli-
slOn of the country and that they, the
teachers, must in no way interfere with
it or mention their own religious be-
liefs. They were not there to educate
the people religiously but purely from
a scientific standpoint. This was OBJ
jected to by many of the teachers who
were members of the Christian En-
deavor Society
Another point that affronted the
teachers many of whom have been
principals of schools and academies,
was the warning that they were not
the principals of the schools, that they
must not interfere with the discipline
in any way but remember that the Fill
pino teachers were the principals.
Several teachers from various pro-
vinces came in while the lectures were
on and rendered their designations. One
of them in voicing the sentiments and
experience CT the others stated that
he was unable to talk Spanish and
still more unable to talk Tagalog That
at his school he was an object of deri-
sion to the pupils and the Filipino
teacher none of whom offered to point
out his duties or to assist him in any
way. Day and night he was alone, an
object of suspicion and dislike to those
whom he was supposed to teach or aid.
"One young American girl was sent to
her province, where she found no eX-
pectation or preparation of her coming
no arrangements for food or lodging
and an absolute indifference as to her
comfort or indeed livelihood. Another
girl was sent where was only one white
man in the whole province. Two Am
ericans were lately shot only three
miles from Manila"
Ii. 5. Townsend, who is the Superin-
tendent of the district of Mindanao,
making his trips to the various pro-
vinces in steam launch, feels deeply
about the matter. Il have on my
shoulders" said he "the weight and
respOns sibility of this whole race of peo-
pie" He is living in nipa hut with
a thatched roof and bamboo floor pay
ing $50 gold in rent. His meals are
taken at an old Exposition building
where the rest of the teachers are
quartered in Manila. The food is said
to be vile.
An amusing incident of the lectures,
(which was much relished by the teach
ers, was while Senator Beveridge was
making a speech, in which he warned
the male teachers to shave regularly,
the ladies to put their hair up in neat
fashion and all to set an example of
absolute neatness in their apparel as an
object lesson.
The Senator was arrayed in spotless
white and was himself a shining ex-
ample, until at one animated gesture,
a cuff flew out among the audience and
showed that the apostle of f'immaculate
neatness had adopted the tropical me-
thod of wearing a white military coat
closely buttoned up and thus render
ing the fact that the Senator was clad
only in his undershirt beneath the
snowy duck invisible to the perception,
until the unattached cuff flew over his
pointing finger and marred the moral
of his tale.
Friday, the day before the news of
the assassination of President McKin-
ley reacned Mania, big Indignation
meeting was held and a cable sent di-
rectly to the President appealing for
some change in their situation, and in
which they stated that they had been
promised supplies from the commissary
department but that these promises
had not been lived up to, the supplies
having been withdrawn. The cable
was endorsed by Atkinson and Com
missioner Taft.
1t is stated by the same witness who
has recently returned from Manila
hat the office of postmaster of Manila
been given to a prominent insur-
the worst type.
HOTTSES GOING TIP.