Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
FILIPINO UNREST
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use it's endeavors to get the F1liplnos to
take up this land, and at the same time
appropriate several million dollars year
for educational purposes and use its
efforts to get the Filipino children to at
tend school, it would be the beginning
of confidence and sympathy between
them and us, which would gradually
remove the hatred which they now en-
terrain toward us. They would then
understand that we were actuated by
lofty motives and that our greatest con-
Germ was their good. We have placed
over them a government of our own
This government of Americans appointed
by the President administers the laws
collects the taxes and manages the de-
tails of their political life. We tax the
Fi1ipinos for the schools and for the sur
vey of their lands, and the Filipinos are
not able to bear the burden, and mas
much as it is our government and they
have nothing to do with it, it seems to
me that Congress should appropriate the
money for these two purposes.
Although these benefcent land laws
have been in existence for some three
years, the Fi1ipinos have not taken
advantage of them. Not single Filipino
has acquired any land under them. The
fact is that the Filipinos do not know
that there are such laws. Our officers
there should inform them in regard to
this and use every inducement to get
them to become landowners.
There is a racial difference between the
Oriental and Occidental which it is i'm
possible to reconcile. The Oriental mind
does not understand the demand of the
white race. Their ideals are different.
1t is unfortunately true that white people
do not assimilate with dark-skinned
people, and there is no Disgusting the fact
that white-skinned people regard dark
skinned people as their interiors. This
feeling of aversion becomes stronger and
stronger when a comparatively few
white people are surrounded by great
numbers of dark people, as is the case
in the Philippines; and when this small
band of white people know that they have
behind them a great and powerful
Government which will protect them and
which will resent any injustice done to
them, this feeling of superiority is devel
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stantly expressed for their dark-skinned
neighbors.
had the privilege of spending several
days in China and Japan eight years ago,
and during my observations at that time,
and in connection with my recent visit,
this lack of sympathy between the Orien-
tai and Occidentalwas strikingly apparent.
In talking with numerous Americans who
have lived in that country for fifteen or
twenty years, each one of them said that
they never had been able to become
intimate with an Oriental. There is a
racial difference which absolutely pre-
vents an intimacy or sympathy either
of the mind or soul.
We are likely at any time to give them
mortal offense without knowing it, and
they are likely at any time to mortally
wound us, without in the slightest degree
comprehending that they have given
cause for offense. | will use broad
illustration which is perfectly fair, to
demonstrate the impossibility of recon-
cling this racial difference:
Let us suppose that Japan has conquer
ed the United States, and is ruling us