The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

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tepec ship railways, the King OF Spain sent
annually a fleet from Acapulco. Mexico.
straight across TO Manila loaded with Span
/ ish goods and precious metals, and these
were returned through friendly winds and
currents by way of the northwest coast Of
America to Acapulco. freighted with the
/ treasures OF the yellow and brown Orient.
Here was the beginning of the yellow
peril" in America. and it is not new one
as the crimsoned streets OF Manila will
bear witness.
The mixture OF the yellow man with the
brown woman and subsequently of the
mongrel Spanlard with this compound
created the standard population Of Luzon
and the Visaya islands The basis is Malay
but the mercantile and political standing
no less than the culture comes through
Asiatic and European fathers.
THE WHITE.
The blood Of the white man found its
way into the Philippines by two methods,
stealth and force. Professor Keane and
other ethnologists believe that the early
brown peoples, of whom mention has been
made, had the blood of the Caucasian in
their veins. Their wavy hair and certain
elements in their speech point in that di-
rection. More probably the later brown in
vasions, with their alphabets and cults
from India, beginning 200 years B. c.. were
purveyors also of racial mixtures. Copper
images from India have been found in
graves Of British Columbia. doubtless left
there by the Spanish fleets.
These trifling ingredients however may
be disregarded in comparison with that
whose presence dates from the very be-
ginning OF the sixteenth century first
through the Portuguese, but largely
through the Spaniards. In this connection
it will be advantageous to read the life of
Magellan. but chiefly the volume of De
Morga in the Hakluyt Society's publica-
tons. 1t would far transcend the limits
Of this narrative to trace the tri1ing tur-
moil Of races under Spanish rule for nearly
400 years. 1t is concerned here with kin
ships, with the mixture of blood contained
in the word Spanish. Semitic and Hamite,
Iberian and Basque, Goth and Vandal,
Roman and Kelt, all are there. On the
confusion Of breeds IN Spain one must read
Deniker. Ripley and sergi.
II there be a kind OF white man from
Europe or northern Africa that the Span
iards did not bring the United States has
completed the tally and added him to the
list.
The Islamism OF the sulu islands is
Semitic and swept to the archipelago traces
of Parthians, Mades, Elamites, jewellers In
Mesopotamia and Arabia. The name Moros
Moors is suggestive OF Berber affinities.
MANY NATIVE TRIBES.
There are in the Philippines $50 native
tribes with names. Some of these are
small and live IN out-of-the-way areas.
They never succumbed to Spanish rule or
the Catholic religion, while others are vast
ly more numerous than all the Indians that
were ever in the United tSates at one time.
Let us call them all Filipinos. 1t will be
impossible to characterize them singly. For
this purpose the Smithsonian Report of
1899 must be consulted. Just few native
peoples whose names occur in the news
papers may be noted.
Igorrotes-Head hunters Of the province
Of Benguet, in northern Luzon, never
tanned. But the name now applies to all
wild Filipinos, the same as our word Injun.
The christianized islanders would say,
There's no good Igorrote but dead Igor
rote"
Observation-Disclosures. civilized, literary,
brown-yellow peoples of northwestern
Luzon.
Pangasinanes - Christianized, civilized
brown people about Lingayen gulf. 112 miles
north of Manila. They have just been
made a separate political jurisdiction by
the President under the provincial organi-
cation act"
Tagals- Christianized, civilized, literary
brown-yellow-white peoples occupying all
the provinces OF Luzon about Manila bay
They are the most numerous and powerful
of all Aguinaldo is a TagaI
Vicols or Observation-Disclosures brown peo-
pies Of southeas stern Luzon and islands ad-
jacent.
Visayas or Bisayas-Next 20 the Tagals
the most numerous Filipino ethnic group
occupying all the central islands-Samar
Masbate. Panay. Escalante, Cebu, BohoI
Leyte-as we'll as the northern and eastern
shores of Mindanao It was in the midst
OF them that Magellan was murdered in
1921.
The Moros have been previously con-
sidered. An excellent map of the islands
will be found in the new Century atlas.
Surely the ends of the earth have come
to us in blood, language. industry, social
life. knowledge and religion through this
beautiful and teeming archipelago. The
possibilities Of infinite development and
blessing to the missionary in every depart-
ment of cult and culture are there, where
their good work may be prosecuted without
let or hindrance. OTIS T. MASON,
Curator OF the National Museum.
Washington, ID. c.