The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-02

You read often of school teachers
sent from the United States to teach
the Philippine people. But how much
good can be accomplished in tt.ts way
is at least problematicaI. Tine lessons
taught thus far have been severe, spe-
cially worse for the senders. The New
York Evening Post says:
Much has been heard about our ef-
forts TO educate the Filipinos. but the
people who have really been going to
school In the Philippines. and who have
learned most, are Americans. We are
wiser. If also sadder, han when we be-
gan sitting under that stern pedagogue
of the islands-Experience. His tuition
fees have been frightfully high. som.-
thing like 5000. 600. 900. a year"
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An interesting announcement has
been made. 1t is that twenty republi-
cans in the congress will visit the south
20 study the real situation as to the
negroes. 1t is not a paul Pry expedition
negroes. 1t is not a Paul Pry expedition
round" and spy out the land for hos
tile or sectional purposes. Not that
It is a movement by a southern repre-
sentative. Hon Charles Thompson. of
LIN leohcSce t<Aid-t iSliitI Ut hdE
invited thirty members, Crumpacker.
the officious. among them, TO go with
him to spend a week at his plantation
home in Macon county, Ala. They are
to leave on the Goth of May. The New
York Evening Post states that they
will be shown the southern negro ia
his highest type, represented by the
students of nnkar UaahinofnnfS
school. and also In his lowest type. az
represented by the ~cotton-field hands.
In the party will be Senator Frye. Of
Maine. Representatives Crumpacker. OF
Indiana: Littiefeld. OF Maine; Jenkins.
of Wisconsin. Ketcham. of New York
Southland. of Ohioj Conner. OF Iowa:
Smith. of Iowa: Leavison, of Iowa: Ear
ney. Of Wisconsin: Brown. OF Wiscon-
sin: Roberts. of Massachusett; Gillett.
of Massachusetts, and others. Speaker
Henderson has been invited. and viii
go If he can leave congress"
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This country ships a great deal Of
meat and cattle. II 1t kept all at home
the trust fellows could not flourish so
well. In 1901 the United States sen.
Great Britain 403. e4s cattle. as agains.
SS.-s AAoLh tint Co0ilTtSs. VI COuESe
the increased price will tend &c make
Great Britain go elsewhere for her sup
plies with the consequent effect OF
leaving US more cattle for our home
market.
The water cure" horror and ~atrocity
Is still the theme. The torture OF Father
Augustine, a Catholic priest, IN diabcs-
ism itself. He was murdered In the
most cruel way, and people OF proper
feelings the civilized world over have
only condemnation for such deviItry.
The account OF his shocking murder by
American soldiers Is given By Albert W.
Bertrand. a former United States sol
der In b Philippines. He says the
father was suspected of knowing where
insurgent gold was buried. Here Ii the
statement:
Men from Company d captured him
IN december. 1900. and dressed him In a
uniform OF the United StaUes artillery.
he was then taken to Banato and kept
In a well. He refused 10 tel where the
gold was buried. and on the night OF
formerly occupied by the presidente Of
the village. Upon his arrival there,
Bertrand says. the water cure was
given hem by the iwater-cure SQUAD
The men succeeded In getting nearly
all the water out Of nim. but he did not
revive"
There a be but one sane opinion as
to what should be done with such saw
ages.