The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-09
LIKE P0MP OF
SPANISH RULE
D .IcuIty Experienced in Ameri.
canizing the FiIipinos.
BUSINESS IN THE ISLANDS
EUROPEANS SEEM TO BE MAX
ING THE MOST HEADWAY.

HERE are no two men to whom
the commercial future OF Manila
looks quite the same Or. H. w.
Elliott says that the people seem to
End it difficult to break away from
their former methods of living. their
time nonored customs and the old
memories OF Spanish rule and mis-
rune. Ehe old town is as truly Span
lsh today as it was on the morning
Nhen the inhabitants looked into the
Diack muzzles of the guns trained on
them by Dewey's war fleet.
II Eihott who ranked as a captain,
was a surgeon with the Ninth volun-
teer infantry OF New York state His
regiment returned last spring but the
oocSoT remained He has Just returned
from the Philippines and is spending
q rev days with his cousin, l. a. Ben
toh' general agent of the passenger
department Of the Rio Grande West
ern. he said that the natives in Office
VINO are drawing pay from the govern
nleht ike the change. The middle
classes like the Spanish regime best.
Ihey lived under Spanish rule so long
tnat they regard with more or less dis
favor any change of government, no
matter how superior it may appear to
+ De 10 former systems of rule.
Slow Progress Made.
1t is this aversion, he thinks, which
VIII make slow work Americanfzing the
islands The poorer classes, he saws.
are indifferent. They can see no diff
ference and the change means nothing
10 them. They have to work lust as
hard as they did before. and thew get
no more for it. Socially the natives
are gradually pulling away from the !
foreigners They attend all the big /
receptions given 20 people of distinc- |
ton but they are beginning to alb |
sent themselves from functions of les. !
ser note given by the outsiders. They
used to mingle with the others. but |
they don't do it any more. Captain /
Elliott was asked if the older fami- /
lies have high cultivation.
Ihey think they have" was the re-
ply. They love the past and they live
IN It, We are too prosaic for them.
Ihey begin TO miss the pomp of Span
Ism social life 1t was surrounded with
a splendor and Incidence that is alb
sent in the brisk, matter-o f-fact GUS
toms OF this new race that is absorb
ing their commercial life. They are |
trying TO preserve the old customs and |
manners They are unwilling to let
them go. For this reason they are
craving away They are proud of the
social glories of the Spanish past.
spanish laws still prevail. Trials are
also held under military laws. a
man can't tell under which law he is
going to be tried if he gets into diff
nculty. This is one of the things the
Americans do not like and it is one
Of the incongruities that will have to
be righted. Business there is not so
good as it was when the soldiers were
on the island Business is getting down |
to a normal basis and the prospects
pier no allurements to Americans.
TsffIa Av,oar;cay, ra,,;4o1
Very little American capital is he
ng invested. An English syndicate
has bought UP the gold and copper
mines there and expects to put in y
machinery and develop them. 1t has I
been reported that coal exists, but the
captain was not aware that any mines 7
we're being worked. [
There are occasional outbreaks in J
and, but these affairs are trivial and )
IS soon as a stand is made by the
soldiers the offenders surrender and :
promise to be good. Their penitence .
continues until they hatch up more \
and they generally manage
o do this every two weeks. =
The inland natives are of a low order 7
# Intelligence. They are not SO in
elhSent our Indians were and they e
on't seem to know when they are :
They are cowardly or they n
you'd not have been whipped Twen- n
y-hve Of them could have held
fhole regiment at bay in the noun r
aims If they had any fight in them l
Mexican money is used and when he
1T an American gold dollar was worth
40. The trip across the ocean costs
800, and it takes quite a pile of Me-
ian dollars to make up the amount. A
or this reason there are not so many :.
no come to America to be educated. ! -
here are about 100 Philippine stu +,
ents at san Francisco. but the larger L
spresentation goes TO England, France ii
nd Germany. Spanish is spoken al a
lost exclusively on the island. D
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