Arizona republican., 1906-11-11

are of about the same physical type as the seven great tribes to the north of them. but in vigor. aggressiveness. and perhaps intelligence also. they are so much superior that their eventual su- premacy can not be doubted They successfully withstood all Spanish ef- forts to couquor or convert them to Christianity. though some beginning fla the way of control had been made when Spain's war with the United States put a stop to further efforts
 In the eastern part of Minanao there is a collection of small tribes. having no relation to any of the four types of MaIays already described It is said that they are tall and have wavy hair. a narrow. prominent nose. and com plezion resembling the Polynesian race which extends from the Hawaiian Is- ] lands to New Zealand. They have giv- en rise to much speculation as to their l origin. and the only thing that can be l definitely said is that they are not Ma ! lays. They are presumably. an off shoot from the inhabitants of the Pa ! cific islands to the east.
 ! Quitting. the few thousand Negritos and the more numerous primitive or 1 pre- Malays and the AIoros. or late Ma i lays. it is thus seen that the bulk of ! the Filipino people are Of a distant 1 type of Malavs who originally migrated ! from some part of Southern Asia not ! far from Sumatra. if not from that is ! land itself. They are the farmers. fish 1 ermen. and laborers of the laud-in- l deed. the real people. How long they ! have been there no one knows. though ] it can not have been very many cen turies. They drove out lower races and were saved in the nick of time from being driven out themselves
 Were it not for the arrival Of the l Spaniard there never would have been
 a Filipino problem to bother us now ! Indeed. it is quite likely that the in creased cultivation of land which re-
 suited from Spanish control has act
 ually increased their numbers.
 ]. There is a final element among the FilipinOs which must be considered
 apart. for it is a type or collection oi types having nothing in common with
 the Malays. These are the half breeds of Mestizos- descendants of European
 or Chinese fathers and Malay women
 They are not so very numerous-per-
 haps one-tenth of 1 per cent of tn.
 whole, perhaps somewhat more thar
 this.
 They hold themselves as much abov, the Malay as our educated muIatto i' above the field negro. CuriOusly enougl
 they look upon themselves as the req Filipino people and strongly resent be ing grouped with the races mentione,
 above. There is nothing in this coun try comparable to them. so that thei
 status is extremely difficult to under
 stand
 The Spaniards held themselves as .l special caste superior to all natives and the Mestizo was a halfway cast
 between the rulers and the read natlv ? and born of both. The unfortunate Flu rasians in India are in the same posi- tion ethnically, but are vastly differen } socially. for they are accepted by nef ther race
 | The Mestizo. on the other hand. i the social leader. the land owner. tn
 wealthy class. and the political leader ? If a small number of mulattoes Of ou ? South. or quadroons. could get posses 3 sion of the land. wealth, and politics , and the white race should leave, "