The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10

| ,~tn and. being per-otaity a~cquainsed
| .x4fn an. leaders 81 nouEh ~"
| able 10 bring rs into cotA4e
| those thos- Uho reflected the @3"
- *re people. while capt Mos 90
-. cnrDsn4 personal ~tan. and '"l-
i.-.f1r Shuster r-rre@eottug 81" 4hss
lar kept - N to0ch
~. Americans IN military ana ftstf
9ff.. kN. found every EEslv esfHN-"f
tfgn OF the educational system e0
It~B4I by tins Americans. + Is the
No.. aerartmenf ~ work instituted oH
onr governments which seems 10 nave
ay0Ifed serious Criticism ! pTe.tf*t*
This universal commentator a. 49,
d4nce OF the good intentions u our
PEOPLE. poin'iHs oui (" ine Fi'iPh
sat people at- nut 80 a>~rs lheit
NIGHTS in PROPORTION ~ tl.eA increase
IN Intelligence ana th.t aHu peoitc
Guild not Dr foolish enough - r1-
.s1Tage education II they really IN
tended - do Injustice q" n ftfi-
lpo~
me large increas. in the number
81 students ana the interest taken 40
ina Establishment Of schools must De
aken into consideration 10y anyone
Who attempts 10 forecast tAe fdtiit
~ The islands. IN many communities
there are more people speaking ms
Ii-n today than could ever specs
>1aEfsh. and the multitude Of dialects
VIII soon be dissolved into q common
14np-agp. one superintendent ot
schools told me that i'm his district ta-
was more thar - per Cef1t.
above the school population, owing
!. the fact thar grow men n No-
men with children insisted upon
| studving. Another superintendent re-
/ ported thai she could not find teach
! ers for all the villages which oft"F-
"a 10 erect School houses. An incident
| was related by still another teache-
| which illustrates the ambition Of tho
| Filipino youth. \ Filipino boy who
| was working in the home Of an Eng
llsh woman notified his mistress that
ne wanted 10 20 70 sahool tens
anxious TO keep him. she offered To
raise his wages from 20 pesos Der
| month TO 10, but he rejected the offer.
saving that n loved wisdom more
than he loved money.
Besides the public schools. primary,
secondary, industrial and normal,
there are 6 number OF religious
! schools. Tho Jesuits IA their schools
and colleges under Spanish occupa-
ton, one Of the boys hoo when
we visited at Cebu being older thai
Harvard university. h Catholic sis
throughout the islands. At Manila the
Jesuits have an observatory and
weather bureau which, for equipment
and scientific accuracy, probably has
no superior anywhere.
The Protestant churches are also
establishing schools, some Of them IN
dustrial. Who viii measure the effect
upon coming generations Of these
multiplying agencies for the training
Of the boys and girls OF the Philip
pines?
The northern islands are Inhabited
by Il Christian population. Whatever
may be said of the governmental
,,,.f nod Of Cna5n on. of rho nlIitip1l
corruption of her colonial representa-
tiVes, she established the Christian
faith in the islands. Prior to Aneri-
can occupation the higher officials Of
the church and many Of the priests
were Spanish, but since 1900 Aemrlc2n
and Filipino bishops and priests are
being substituted. Under the lead of
Archbishop Hartv. the work of the
church is being vigorously pushed and
q large number of baDtiSmS are re-
churches are gaining a foothOld. there
being upwards of 10000 Filipinos en-
rolled in the eVangelistical churches.
The Presbyterian church of the Tondo
district. Manila, has something like
400 natives, Senior B~uencamino, secre-
tary of State under A~guinaldo, and af-
forwards a member of the civil ser
vice commission, being president Of
the Tondo congregation.
No discussion of the religious stu
alton in the Philippines would be
complete without a reference to the
Independent Catholic church of which
Senior Gregorio Aglipay is the head.
"Obispo Maximo" Aglipay is a native
Filipino, 46 years Did. with an intelli-
gent face and fine presence. In three
and a half years he has established a
church with some 800 priests and
about 700 congregations. He claims Il
membership of about 1000, 600, but
the clergy of the regular Catholic
church do not cOncede nearly so large
a following. In fact. they deny that he
mas made any considerable impress
ion upon the Catholic population, and
as there is no accurate church cen
SuS it is impossible to say in what
proportion the Catholic membership
is divided between these two church
organizations
AS to the honesty of the average
Filipino, different opinions are to DE
heard from Americans, but we were
tod that less care was taken to lock
the doors than in America, which
would indicate less fear of burglary.
The Philippine court records would
embarrass US il we became too harsh
in our reflections upon the integrity
of the Filipinos, for during the years
1902-3-4-5 80 office-holding Ameri-
cans were found guilty of shortages
and d~efalcatiOns, the total amount en-
bezzled exceeding $4,000 gold. Bill
ibid prison at Manila is the peniteG-
tiary for the northern islands and most
Ct think all who receive more tnan
q Jail sentence are confined here.
There are now about 800 prisoners
in Bilibid, nearly LOO serving terms
for brigandage, Instruction, rebel
lion and sedition. the remainder for
other crimes. If the convicts average
a years sentence each, the number OF
natives sent to the penitentiary dur
mo fOlC Naa1 re would Ha wa t0 hn n 1a4,+
$4,000 to give the native population
q criminal class equal TO the propor-