The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-01-18
Interesting Letter.
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and vehicles Just as horses do slse
where. On the Canton river there
are thousands of house boats in which
one class of Chinese live and you
would be surprised to see a small boat
the home of from 10 to 20 Chinese.
While in Hong Kong ! went to
real old English circus and had very
good time. Just imagined / was boy
and that, my first circus, so bought
balloons, red popcorn, peanuts, pink
lemonade, etc. Admiral Frain was
the receipt of numerous honors from
the foreign officers. The morning we
left the Rainbow passed between two
lines of foreign men-of-war, English,
German, French, Italian, Chinese,
etc, the bands Of all playing the "Star
Spangled Banner" with our flag flying
at the fore and every officer and man
saluting at attention, and as we
passed the drums and bugles gave the
admirals salute of three raffies, and
the guns rang forth their salute. 1t
was certainly grand and a sight that
would thrill any true American. 1t
clearly shows the immense prestige of
Uncle Sam and the awe IN which our
nation is held by foreign powers
We had an extremely rough passage
after Hong Kong was left behind and
the Rainbow seemed delighted in try
ing to do stunts that a circus perform
er would never attempt. AT one time
there was bout three inches of water
on the deck of this office. 1t might
be needless TO state that for a couple
of days | didn't eat much, but that's
merely an incidental. I'm not sailor
enough yet to stand too much rolling,
but ordinarily it doesn't effect me.
On this trip men of 20 years service
course they wouDdn't admit it.
On the Goth we left here for a short
cruise among the islands of our south
ern possessions. We visited about
eight ports, stopping first at Fam
boango $50 miles from Cavite. This
is the largest city Of the Philippines
Manila. One sees here the
Moro in his almost primeval state, al
most savage. These are the people
whom some would wish to make
citizens of the u. S. You would need
only one glimpse Of them and their
life to see the absurdity of the thing,
and in my opinion il would be just as
absurd to give them self-government
at the present time. In my opinion
the only possible way to subdue or
civilze these people is to wait until the
present generation die or are off and
then start in on the young genera
ton.
From Iamboango we steamed to
Jolo, Sulu, the capital of the famous
Sultan of Sulu." The governor of
the Philippine Islands and party of
civil and military Of
icials arrived about the same time as
we did and the entire population were
out in full rcgulia. The Sultan and
his personal staff have recently adopted
the American dress, but his people
appeared in the full glory of their ma
tive costume, headed by their dattos
or chiefs and we had noisy reception
to say the least OF IL. \ typical
Moro'S dress consists of pair OF
bright colored trousers, a Jacket of
color and sort of turban of
still another color. The women dress
in the same bright colors. BY some
means they make one
piece OF goods answer for Il dress and
hat, all 90 barefoot. The children, up
to about 10. do not wear enough
clothes TO write about so the word
''nothing" describes their dress ex-
actly. The Sultan keeps his domestic
establishment of 800 wives at the vii
lage of Meinbum, about 20 miles from
the capital. CottobatS, Mindanad,
was our next stop. This is where the
present fighting is going on, and the
population are armong the most
treacherous Of the entire islands. The
army have large force of men
stationed here but cannot do much as
the Moros fight always from ambush
a good deal the style of the In.
dams in the early days, and after the
manner of all unciviliZed tribes.
From here we went to Pollok, then
Parany, Malabany, Ingan and from
the latter place TO Manila. This trip
was very interesting and instructive
to me and ! shall always count it
among my most valuable experiences,
as IL enabled me to see the exact con.
ditions throughout the islands and |
think that the L. $. is pursuing the
right course out here and the most
effective policy.
] find quite number Of diversions
out here now and many interesting
things TO see and do. Just now our
entire fleet is in the bay and that en-