The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27

At the Filipino school I visited, /
learned that the best scholars were
ambitious to become teachers. Isn't
this the case in nearly every school
in the world? Were it not for the
teachers now in the work" and the
teachers who are coming on, with
salaries in view wouldn't our educa-
uOnal system be greatly changed2 The
young girl who accompanied me has
been through it, to graduation in an
expensive school in Washington, and
she was counted an apt and enthusiast
tic student; yet she cOnfesses she has
forgotten nearly all of it. Our boosted
schools, after they pass certain point,
are for the benefit of pupils studying
to be teachers.
At home, when a gang of workmen
stop a few weeks at a place. they live
in tents. Here native huts are built,
and this fact illustrates the cheapness
of native houses. Not nail is used
i'm the average native hut.
You may think the American gov
eminent at least buys q good deal of
American beef and pork in the Phil
ippines. I am informed that this is
not the case: it comes from Australia,
which is nearer. The Australia pork,
shipped over here. is cured in queer
way. the entire side of a pig in piece,
including the ham and shoulder The
butter used here also comes from Aus
trala. Milk is also frozen in bottles
i'm Australia, and shipped here in re-
frigerating ships.
Although you would think the Phil
ippineS the paradise of the vegetable,
the native tomatoes look like little red
warts. / visited several of the native
markets, but the Americans and Euro
peans do not patronize them. Splen-
did vegetables and fruits are grown at
Uncle Sans experimental farms, but
the natives seem to be pretty well sat
isfied with the old way
A good American and an intelligent
man. told me that the taxes collected
by the United States government from
the natives are three times greater
than the taxes formerly collected from
the natives by the Spanish government.
But the statement may not be true:
You can hear anything over here.
The railroad over which I made a
trip today was known as the Kansas
& Utah Short Line" during the war,
as the Kansas and Utah regiments OPP
Grated it for time. A Topeka man
was general manager. Many of the
stations were burned by the insurgents.
and the owners of the property were
between two fires.
The horses in Manila are so small as
TO be laughable, but the further you
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horses. In the country. the horses are
compelled to take run to get cart
over a clod.
All the native women have big feet
At the railroad stations. I would see
girls standing, and thinking them pref
ty until I looked down and saw that
their feet were as big as hams sup
pose this is a result of going barefoot.
one of the school regulations in the
Philippines is that no teacher is per
mitted to punish a pupil. As a re-
suit the pupils are said to be very
impudent; occasionally pupil kicks
a school teacher on the shins. and
very frequently every pupil ia school
viii take his things and go home. The
Manila papers say the regulation is
foOlishness. and so do the teachers:
but foolishness is no new thing in the
Philippines The policy of Benevolent
Assimilation advocated by Secretary
Taft is not endorsed by the American
residents, who contend that the islands
should be managed as a business prop
osiuon, and the natives treated as sub