New-York tribune., 1902-01-30

that island for eighteen months There are q
few Negretos, or hill tribes. back in the interior
who never pacified peaceful and who
are different race of people from the main
body of inhabitants. They never farm for
livelihood simply living in the forests They
made raid one of the villages in the pres
ent month There only few thousand OF
them. On the western coast of NegrOs there
100000 people. Visayans. growing sugar alone.
They have highly improved plantations. There
are numerous individual houses there costing
! from $4,000 to S2O.OOo each, in Mexican money.
There is one house near Bacolod that cost
100000. and another few miles further in the
! country that cost $4,000. These people all
| farmers. interested in growing their crops
| AMERICAN IDEAS IN NEGROS.
IAN insurrection in that island to-day would
cost these people hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. This province turned out 1O6OOO tons Of
] sugar last year. Now their fields ripe with
| sugar. and any insurrectiOn would simply dew
| astate the country. They do everything In
| their power to keep down an insurrection. They;
| have American teachers in all the principal
| towns, and are sending their children to these
! teachers TO learn English. The little tots are
! beginning to chatter in language in the
streets They have taken to Americans and
American ideas. If there is any thing there
! that shows the people are kindly disposed tow
| ard the Americans. it is the fact of the well
come that has been given to the school teachers.
| 1 spent four five weeks on the island. and
F! left there last November. I have been all over
4 the western anu nOfJncIH part VI the
The same conditions obtain everywhere in that
| tract"
/ How about conditions in Panay?'
: THE island of Panay has over million peo-
pie. 1t is the most densely populated island in
! the group, and there is not a single village or
i town of that entire island where American
cannot safely go unarmed The people are
| largely engaged in growing rice and sugar and
ccpra. and the women manufacture the Just
| Visayans, the same as all of the southern group
! of islands,"
4 tr,a
| confding manner?'
The island of Mndanao has never had any
! north. The island of Cebu also is pacifed
| There is no semblance of insurrection in IT.
| You don't even see it mentioned in the dis
patches"
| "Samar never was under subjugation. The
| Spanish made attempt to subjugate the ma
| tives. They had two small garri-
sons the island and made no effort TO go into
the interior. A larger portion of that island is
under American control than ever was under
Some of the dispatches in question lay great
stress the alleged policy of concentration as
| practised in the unpacifed portions of Luzon-
Do you know anything about that?"
| AS TO CONCENTRATION
Il know it as it is practised there. 1t is a mis-
nomer to call it policy of concentration, be-
| cause the world has learned TO put significant
! meaning to that word. The policy practised
| in the Philippines has element Of cruelty in
| IL
| particular locality TO move from one portion to
| another and there they reside and carry on
their operations and business. II the locality into
| which they have moved does not afford them
| ample support. the United States Government
| provides them with food and shelter. The peo-
| pie are pleased with it, because they are per-
| mtted to lead easy life, much easier than at
home There is element Of punishment or
deprivation. They are simply requested to come
|
They are moved out of danger. then, for their
| own beneht?''
| Exactly; because those who are inclined TO
| favor the Americans are assailed by the ladrones
| or the rebels, and unless they came within the
| lines of the American army they would be COM
/ PEELED to pay tribute TO the insurgents. These
| people largely accept this concentration. il Is
| practised a relief instead of punishment
1t is relief from a punishment inflicted upon
them by the insurgents. with whom they have
no sympathy.
| INSURRECTION NOT WIDESPREAD.
According to your observation. then. the IN
surrection. while it may be very troublesome
and stubborn in certain quarters is not at pres
ent widespread"
| In the Philippines. where the insurgents are
gathered in force. in the region around La
| guna de Bay and in the outlying districts OF
| Samar. the resistance is stubborn. but the peo-
| pie in the other large areas 1 have described
to you not affected particularly by this
| tinued resistance. What keeps them in a con-
stant state OF unrest is the agitation in this
country. The harm done is in discussing these
| matters here was in Iloilo when word came that
President Mckinley shot, and a few days
after that word received and circulated
| through the group that Bryan to be Pres
/ ident. 1t a well known fact that the agi-
| tators in Samar and Cebu which at that time
| were in open rebellion, actually believed that
| Bryan would become President Immediately
| and that they would then receive their inde-
| pendence. 1t is thought by the officers there
| that that is why there much trouble.
which resulted in the assassination OF American
| troops.
| WHERE THE REAL TROUBLE Is.
| 1T has been said that the FiIipinos do not ac-
| cept the situation. and that there are threat
ened outbreaks. That is not the trouble in the
Philippines. The trouble is. the American peo-
pie don't accept the situation. II the American
| people would accept the Filipinos they would
| accept the American people, but long as there
| is an element here constantly urging them to
| rebellion the trouble is going TO continue. Let
| the American people accept the situation
and the Philippines, and the Fflipinos VIII accept
| the Americans This is not the time discuss
freedom. In the first place, 1t does not enter into
| the question. IT is impossible for the Americans
| TO get out of the Philippines at present From a
| sense of duty TO ourselves and others we must
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