Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-02

ultimate richness Of these new posses
sions Of the United SLstss, while the
mining products, the sectiohs c1 lum-
Der, the exhibit Of hemp in all stages
Of manufacture, and other things cob
lected by the United States Goyernmens
are all displayed there to show the peo-
pie Of this country that under proper
direction and with faithful assistance.
the people OF the Philippines can, in the
long years to come. demonstrate their
capacity and their fitness to be consid-
cred among the peoples Of the earth
The Savage Tribes.
Over In another corner Of the reservA-
ton one may find savage tribes brought
to St. Louis as types Of the people whs
still roam over the islands. who have
! never been properly classified, who make
no returns to census officers, who were
never controlled by the Spanish Govern
ment and who are the people above all
others over whom the United States
must extend the genius Of its own civil
zation.
1t was the Sunday after the hysters-
cal convention of the Democratic party
had closed its labor. The gates Of the.
big Fair were barred to all but the priv
ileged officials of the Exposition. In the
Igorrote village the 1.-the, active, dor
eating savages were amusing themselves
after their own fashion in their weekly
holiday. There were no crowds to in
terrupt them. They roamed around the
reservation as free from care as II In
their own forest. The youngsters car
ried on a sham battle. and the older men
and women of the tribe smoked and
laughed and enjoyed themselves in their
simple, savage fashion.
On the steps of the headQuartsn
house sat the shrewd, good-natured, az.
Yankee soldier, who had secured the
concession and brought these savages t.
st. Louis where they have since been.
the most interesting feature Of 4 most
exposition. He had Just IN
ished reading a newspaper which con-
tanned copy of the Democratic plat
form, pledging that party to the uIt1-
mate independence of the Filipinos and,
as he laid down the newspaper, glano-
ing from time to time over his brown
skinned charges, whom he had learned
10 love and who looked up to him a.
father, he expressed himself with nat
Iral quaintness as to political situation.
Democrats Changed Their Opiniena.
Look at those people now. They are
unable, good-natured, tractable saw
lges, but they are savages just the samA
t seems foolish to talk of independence
or people who don't wear any mors-
lothes than they dc. I went out to the
Stands in a regiment which had whols
OF of Democrats in it, but there were
Mighty few Democrats came back, be-
ause we were in a place where we had
put up to us every day how danger
us it was to talk of independence among
eople who were wholly untitled to un-
erstand the responsibility of political
reedom. What do you suppose those
eople over there, who are now enjoy
ng themselves throwing stones at each
Their, and saving themselves from In
ury with their shields, would do If ths1
we're turned loose on the streets of St
louis and told to hustle for themseIyssf
n fifteen minutes after they had bseA
ttacked by some street Arabs, there
would be the biggest row you ever saw,
nd all the statute laws from here b
Washington wouldn't keep those nice.
tile, brown men from sticking 4 knife
lto every white man they saw. l stayed
Democrat more time than most Of eur
egiment but | am done with it now.
his talk of independence, if persisted
d, will sooner or later provoke bloody.
evolution in the Islands A promise Of
Immediate independence is a serious
hing. The Finipinos themselves viii
hink they are entitled to liberty before
re do, and the result would be a differ
nee of opinion which would mean blood
for one don't propose to belong to
ny party which deliberately shuts tn
res TO the great duty of the American
eople, which is to meet the conditions
, we find them now, to educate the peo-
e of the Philippines up to a condition
comparative civilization. and then to
the future be determined by the fu-
re-"