Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-07
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun
dreds Of Different Towns
end Communities.
DESCRIBING FILIPlNos.

the Philippine islands, has just writ
ten a letter to Fank lllgan in which ht
gives a highly interesting description
of the Filipinos as he sees them. The
letter is dated al Manila, June -, and is
as follows:
AT last | am in Manila, city With i
past. 1t likewise has a future and .
present. 1t is older than anything that
/ can think of except an Egyptian mum
my. 1t is much livelier, however, thar
1 imagine Il mummy to have been ever
in his palmiest days tyou know they
We're addicted to palmistry in those
days..
1t is said to have a population OF
100000. and / am willing to confess that
1 believe it and that three-fourths OF
them are still in the same condition SC
far as clothes are concerned. as they
were when they first made their stage
entrance upon terra firma.
The population is "Gugus' Q'ilipino)
Chinos, Spanish. American and a small
sprinkling of every other thing on the
face of the earth.
The Filipinos of the city and the sur
rounding provinces are worthless lot
of mortals, lazy, dirty, and naked. with
a desire to live merely, and that as
easy as possible. The Chinese are
fmuch to be preferred for everything TO
a Filipino. The Chinese are indus
trious and honest, the Filipinos are lazy
and thieves. l am speaking now of
| those here. l am Informed that some
| of the tribes Qhere are about thirty
different ones in the islands) in the
northern part of the islands are very in
dustrious and we'll disposed towards
the Americans. Those here are bit
terly opposed to us and were it not for
the soldiers, | doubt if an American
would dare show himself in this city.
| This hatred is. however, injected into
them by the Spanish and the priests.
especially by the latter. who fear their
occupation as robbers of the people is
to be somewhat curtailed.
| But to the city. 1t is a mass of two
story structures with three foot thick
stone walls and projecting balconies
over narrow sidewalks for the second
story.
| A description of one will suffice for
| all. Ina gine if you can, q street about
| twelve feet wide with a sidewalk two
| feet or so wide on each side. A SOL
| id wall of stone from one corner OF the
street to the next along both sides,
broken here and there by a window
with heavy iron bars across 1t (thiS is
| to keep out our little brown brother
as the insurrectos at home call them)
! from stealing everything in the house.
/ Probably in a block there will be on
/ each side three doors, each of which is
| the entrance to casa or house.
These doors or entrances are about
sixteen feet wide and set in them
lhi v heavily studded with iron belts
with heads as big as a small saucer
and fastened when shut by a heavy
iron bar.
| Entering thru this passageway you
come to square court in the Very
center of the house and around which
the whole thing is built. This court
and the entrance way are paved with
heavy fagstones about two feet square.
OFF each side of the court and in the
lower story of the house, are the sta
bles, where are kept the horses (ponies
we would call them. Weighing about
500 pounds ii they happen to be large
specimens. and so on DOWN. the car
riages and the servants. Upstairs are
the apartments of the family, each
room opening on the inner court and
having projecting balcony over ii, as
the front of the house has over the
street. The rooms are mammoth struc-
lures, but poorly arranged, as are the
other houses, for purposes of ventila-
ton. These are the Spanish houses.
The natives live in anything from a
flour sack up.
LACEY, REESE AND THE MINERS.
[Ottumwa Courier.l
Commenting on the nomination of
John p. Reese, president of district No.
13. United Mine Workers of America,
for congress on the democratic ticket,
to run against Major John +. Lacey,
Dan Thomas, one of the most promi-
nent men in miners circles, who until
about one year ago resided in keb,
says:
I'VE see in our daily paper that John
p. Reese has accepted the nomination
as a candidate in the Sixth district
against John f. Lacey. | have nothing
against John p. Reese going to con-
gress. If ne wants to get there, he
should run against a different candi-
date. We don't want to overthrow a
man that's doing all he can toward
the elevation of labor. Lacey has done
more for the working people this year
than all the people of Iowa put to-
gether. He secured the release of John
Haddow, and had a bill passed in con-
gress providing for shot -firens in Indian
territory. A candidate against La
cey this next term might as we'll run
against locomotive If there are 5000
miners in the district. it is their duty
to vote for a man who has done some
thing for their benefit
The situation in regard 10 the cam
paign in the Sixth district is Well por-
trayed by Mr.. Thomas The question
that conf1onts the voters of this dis
trict is, Shall the miners assist in
sending man to congress as their rep
resetntatiNe who is known TO be their
friend and who has already shown his
sincerity in the matter and his ability
by securing legislation in their behalf,
or shall they try to elect a man who
has had no experience in the methods
OF the workings of congress, and who if
elected, would be in accord with the mi
nority instead of the majority of that
body"
1t is simply a proposition such as
comes to every citizen and business
man in every day life. shall we have a
man as our representative at the ma
tional capital who is thoroughly famil-
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