Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-09
A MlSSlONARY'S FORECAST vERI.
FLED.
(From the Boston Herald;


Herald, Rev. Clay NlncCauley, who
spent some time in Manila just before
the outbreak Of actual war between
the Americans and the Malays, is in
clined to trace back the virulcnt hate
that now seems universally 10 animate
the natives to causes anterior to the
passions enkindled by bloodshed,
wholesale burning of villages and
towns, or even instances of cruel tor
ture.
mo people, says the writer, were
ever more dealized. or welcomed with
more hope by another people, than we
were by those Christian Malays. But
temperamentally, and by national hap
it, the ordinary American looks upon
the rk-colorcd races as his interiors
At the outset our soldier bore himself
toward the natives as superior and
soon afterwards as master To him
L speak generally they were niggers'
almost from the start. and any asser-
ton of right as allies in the war against
Spain became an irritating and intoer-
able presumption
1t was, then, to the dominecrins and
brutal contempt of manners manifest,
ed by us from the outset that was
mainly due 80 Mr.. MasCauley thinks
the rapid change from love to hate.
Maluys, first and foremost, are all gen.
tlemcn, said of them Sir Andrew
Clarke; they may be assassins and
pirates, but always and everywhere
they are gentlemen, assiduously care
ful, each one, to conduct himself in the
spirit OF Byron's hero
| He was the mildcst manncr'd man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat
Our brusque and democratic way, OF
the other hand, Of showing them off the
sidewalk into the gutter, and calling
them ''niggers" many of them mci
/ of European university education ant
them our real virtues of inner loyalty
to the principle OF the Declaration OF
Independence, that 'all men We're ere
ntcd free and equal, and entitled TO {
fair share of the sidewalk, courteous
treatment, and a that and a that,
and to ally us rather with what arc
custoinariy called hoodlums, tough
and. brutes.
With all tropical peoples, grace ant
charm Of manners go great way
Living necessarily large part of tn,
time in the open air, and thus con
stantly thrown promiscuously together
life would be intolerablc were 1t no
cnlivened and enriched with gay an,
easy address, ceremonial courtesy, var
led agreeable and dramatic talk, an,
all that goes to make outdoor inter
course as delightful as play. In
deed, it Is in such climate alone tba
anything like Il spirit of gracious an
charming social equality is ever wit
messed, state Of things at the larthcs
conceivable remove from our highl
indiyidualized ramrod or porcupin
manners indeed, so fascinating whe
first witnessed as easily to seduce an
traveller into translating on the spo
the familiar saying, II can get alon
without necessities. but viii have luN
uries,' into Il can freely put up wit
low morals II only you will give III
such manners
IT is no more than what is due (
Mr., MacCnulcy TO say that three year
: ago. and before the outbreak of hosti
. tiles between the Americans and NJ,
lays, lie emphatcally prophcsied in le
tcrs from Manila to the Boston Tran,
/
= cript the harvest of wrath and hat
that would have to be rcaped of I'll
seed then being sown broadcast in I'll
way Of overbearng and brutally insul
ing manners, The question of polite;
u independence or of American sovc
eighty seemed to him to present I,
less momentous issue than the socii
question, the question of treatment an
hearing as between human being an
humnn being one single epthet
~ contempt like 'niggers,n stored up,
in b0mbshell, more rending dynami
,t aud suf'ocating lydditc than any in II
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