Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-07

the Philippines taken by Sergeant c.
o. Arland, who sent a most interest
ing letter to his aunt, Mrs. Matt. An
derson of Mt. Horeb, from Montilopa
Luzon, Sept. /. He says in part:
up to last night we have not had
a drop of rain for the last ten days,
and the natives were commencing to
pray for rain, as the rice crop needs
moisture. 1t started in last night at
a good rate, however, and has kept II
up all day today, wind and rain in a
deluge, and | see by weather bulle-
tin that there is bad typhoon raging
outside Manila on the China sea.
Since last writing to you, aunt, the
transport Thomas has come in and
brought us nearly 500 teachers. You
may have noticed their arrival in the
papers I sent you II is blessing
to get them and still there are 500
more to come from America, and that
will give us thousand. They will
be scattered over the islands, and Ma
nila itself will take good many. We
have only about 450 garrisoned posts
here and the teachers will not be sent
where there is no garrisou A town
here that has no soldier stationed In
It is not a very healthy place to live
In, and an American would last only
about three days, as they would cut
his head of. A town in this country
is one OF two things: either American
or insurrecto; there is no middle
course. I hope they will assign a
teacher TO our little town, as these
people here would like to have one
very much. All of them would like
to learn the English language. Every
day there are three or four young PEG.
pae who will ask me II we will not
get teacher here. think very like |
ly we will, although this place is only
about 1900 population, but we are
very close to Manila.
"There are now two political parties
in the islands. One of them is OF
recent origin, the other having been
organized some time. The old one is
called the federal party. and the new
one is the national. The federal par
ty is strongly American, is composed |
Of leading well-to-do Filipinos and
great many Americans. It's object is
to sustain the government and end the |
war. The national party is composed
entirely Of prominent Filipinos, and !
has for one Of it's leading members
the famous Agulnaldo. Its object is
TO try to work on the feelings OF the |
American people and through con.
gress to try and gain independence,
or IL not independence the next best
that II can obtain. am afraid II will
be failure, as IL looks now as If |
these people have about all the indie |
pendence they are going to get, and |
that IS about ten times more than |
they ever had before. The better
classes of natives and all the educated
ones want the American government
here. for they readily see how much
better affairs are under Il, and they
are commencing 10 realize what a
grand and good government really is.
"A Filipino takes as readily TO pol
tiles as an Irishman, for II is some
thing he can always be agitating and
not do very much harm to anyone
These islands will always be governed
direct from home, and they may talk
about no more war. and the 'constitu.
tion following the flag, as much as
they like, but there is only one thing
that these islands will ever be, ana
that is, colony of the United States.
! know II does not sound very good TO
a great many American citizens. but
II will always remain fact neverthe-
less.
Absolute home rule here is out of
the question. for these people would
vote at the first election for every
American to leave the islands, and
then commence 10 fight among them
selves. This government here must
always be backed by the iron hand of
the military. and it will take several
generations to change IL. Why. even
now in the most peaceable districts
no American dreams of residing In q
town that has not a garrison, and no
enc can be induced 10 travel from one
town to another without an escort OF
SoiuieIHs OWF utdIRsl luNn ~ CduCu
Bsnyan. II is six miles from here up
tae lake, and is in sight of this place.
and has garrison OF 500 men: and
vet II not considered safe to try to
20 there without an escort of ten men.
Another town is directly back OF US
in the mountains. thirteen miles. Tt
rs another good-sized place. called ST.
Nicholas, with a garrison OF 200 men,
sun. il takes a whole company to
try 10 so 10 II from this place. And
this is In one OF the peaceful dis.
triets. The meaning of the word
peace here is place that is not fred
into every night, aud where a soldier
can so 200 yards from camp without
having his head cut on.
"There Is one thing that these PEG
pie will have 20 learn sooner or later
and that is 20 eat the proper Kind OF
food. or course the wealthy classes
i've as they should. but as there is
nniy one rich family In three hun
dred this description win touch the