The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-28
SALVADOR PATINo RETURNS TO THE
 PHILIPPINES.
Ward of Lieutenant Harris Says He Will Not Live in America if He Cannot Associate With
 White Men.

Savador Patino, a bright young Fiji pino boy. 16 years old, passed thTougn Montgomery, en route from union is full of trouble. For Savador Patino has been up against problem that IS worrying the wisest statesmen of the land.
 According to the statement of the Filipino boy he leaves America for ever, because his skin is dark and the mixed blood of the. spaniard and Ma lay runs through his veins.
 The little Filipino cannot understand the reason therefor. He was taught to believe that he would be given every advantage in the homes of the brave Americanos, who conquered the Span tards and captured Aguinaldo. The big young lieutenant who adopted Saw sdSr patino and sent sen him to his F,ISn hom is sad. For in his brief stay in Amer ica he was made to understand, in ad- dition to the lessons he was taught In the schools .of America, the lesson that the Anglo Saxon brooks no equality
 The Story of savador Patino is as thought thought in sH1 his sDbs story. He was g hap py, contented, ignorant little fellow, three or four years ago, when the noticed him. Among those who noticed his native brightness especially was whose home is Union Springs. Ala
 " ahe boy and adopted him. The young soldiers wanted to do well by his little brown ward. He wanted to give him ang He sent the little fellow to his brother. Dr. Scale Harris, in Union Springs.
 of Union Springs and learned rapidly. He became acquainted with and loved the American boys and he was treated kindly by all the people of Union
 savador Patino was indeed happy. But a cloud came in his life. Murmurs arose that the boy had dark skin and Bociate with the white children. The negroes of Union Springs began to murmur. If the white people allowed the brown Filipino boy In, the white katto boys enter?" they argued.
 The climax came when the editor of The Bullock County Breeze publish. which was as follows:
 Right here in Union Springs we have Filipino attending the pupnc school with our white girls an ana id,,isn; boys; young fellow, we do not consider him pne whit better than a bright mulatto American boy. His blood Is no purer. He is a mixture of foreign blood with the native Filipino.
 we would not prevent him receiv- Ing an education. but in order to ac- EOmpllSn IHlS we QO nOL n eommunity should be subjected to the humiliation of our own sons and daugh- ters being thereby forced to associate with him. in school at least, as an equal.
 "Should a whole community be forced to recognize him as an equal by allow> Ing him to attend our white schools, and entertainments on an equal footing with the fairest, gentlest,. purer girl pf our own Anglo-Saxon blood, simply because of his aversion to mingling with the negro? Must the white peo- ple of a cultured community lay aside their race pride in order to gratify the ialse pride of one little Filipino, who though bright Is not more so than many mother colored boy of his age; and we know that his behavior at public places s not exceptionally good The school board should draw the line on his ent- sance to our public school for whites, lust the same as on any other colored bhild.
 "The colored people are already mo- Hcing it and only a few days ago we heard of one asking why it was that