Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-01
PHILIPPINE CONDITIONS
There are Nearly Seven Million
Civilized Filipinos.
The Natives Classified MS "WiId" Num-
her about 100000 According to the
New Census-No Legislature
in the Philippines until 1905.

II is now pretty well determined that
the Philippine Legislature will not be or
ganized until January 1, 1905 and prob
ABLY not until after that date. This de-
Jay is made necessary by the fact that
me census figures for the islands will
not be ready for "A year from now. and
the apportionment is to be based on the
results OF the recent enumeration, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle.
Henry Gannett of the United States
geological survey, who had general
charge OF the census undertaking. under
the direction of General Sanger, has re-
turned to Washington. Mr.. Gannctt
Drought with him a tremendous mass of
papers, embracing the results of the re-
cent canvass of the Philippine archi-
pelago. They cover facts relating to
agriculture, manufacturers and transpor-
tation, in addition to the enumeration
of the inhabitants of the islands. These
papers are to be handed over to the OK
pert corps OF clerks and tabulators in
inc census bureau and will be put into
shape Tor publication as rapidly as pos
slbl@. The act directing the taking of
the census of the Philippines provided
that the expense of the enumeration
should be borne by the insular govern
ment. while the national government
VIII FOOT the bills involved In putting the
gathered statistics into book form
We found" said Mr.. Gannett that
the civilized people of the archipelag 90
numbered little less than 1000 00O about
6.9l5.00o This was something more than
We expected, as we were led to believe
that the Christian population numbered
only about $500, 600. The Filipinos classi-
ned as wild are about $50 900 in number
The standard adopted by us in classify
ing the civilized and wild people was a
religious one. II native has been hap
Ins ga 4.
subjects. The wild people were not con-
fined to any particular island or province
but were scattered all through the
archipelago. They are not all wild in
the sense of being savage. although
many of them are head hunters of the
most dangerous type. Tho standard OF
baptism is the one usually employed in
classifying the civilized and wild people
we found great many natives who
Knew nothing about baptism residing in
the northern section of Luzon and in
Mindanao.
THE work of enumeration was all done
by the natives. and they rendered highly
satisfactory service. As a class | never
saw more intelligent, faithful or capabl,
enumerators than those we got in tho
| Philippines We employed more thar
| b.Wo of them. paying at the rate of s.
day. Some finished up their assignment.
in week, while others were engaged fol
month or more. We had a very effec
tive system of instructing the natives
| in regard to the facts of what W.
wanted. We first explained to the gov
errors of the different provinces tn,
nature Of the undertaking, and engaged
them to act as supervisors. They in turI
taught the presidents. or the mayors o.
the sub provinces who finally told tn,
| individual enumerators what was ex
| pectcd Of them. No trouble was expert
| CnCOd i'm Ppttipp tho 10 I'm cl
the information that the government de
sired.
"A great deal Of interest was display
ed in the census taking, especially by thu
moro intelligent class, who appreciated
! what it meant. The last previous census
| of the Philippines was taken by thu
| Spanish in 1851 The church authorities
! however, were in the habit of countin,
noses among the Christian people ever.
! year"