The National tribune., 1906-08-02

like people to ask him about it. There
is difference between being a candi-
date" and being made a candidate" of
course All patriotic citizens always
place themselves in the hands of their
friends. and If those friends insist on
making them candidates. why, what can
fellow do, don't you know!
Word comes back to US that there is
q strong "Nationalistic" movement in
the Philippines against the teaching of
the English language in the primary
Filipino schools. 1t is fostered by the
native Manila press. more especially the
Renacimiento. which appeals to Taga-
log parents not to permit their children
to become estranged from them by
adopting foreign language and Gus
toms. Filipino girls are seriously ad-
monished not to receive the attentions
of those young mon who ape the man
ners and affect the language of the
Americans. "If we now study the
Anne lean tongue" one of the articles
says, ''it is because we are subject to
the American people, just as in the
past we studied Spanish. because we
were under Spanish domination. Who
of us can tell what may happen in the
future, after we have been sold to Japan
or when China wakes up?"
Il
ment is all right but the temper is all
wrong. and that will in time correct
itself There is no reason on earth why
the Filipinos should not learn and hold
fast to their own language and dialects.
In fact. they should be taught to speak
these perfectly. At the same time the
schools established by the United States
Government should certainly teach the
English language. There was a fool no.
ton once that the only way to civilize
the Indian in the Indian schools estab-
lished by the Government was to teach
him only English, and to sternly forbid
him TO speak his own language; in fact,
he was ordered to forget it. This was
a very foolish notion. indeed. The In
dian spoke the aboriginal language Of
this country. 1t is valuable from many
!. .standpoints. and 1t is barely possible
: that an educated Sioux. Navajo, Zuni or
Moqui could help some day to unravel
some of the secrets of their people
which sleep under centuries of dust II
they had been permitted to remember
their own native language and its many
dialects. / remember having seen tiny
Indian children given demerits In school
because in their eagerness to show that
they knew what they were reciting they
sometimes had recourse 20 their own
language. 1t seemed to me to be very
pathetic, and all but criminal. We have
scientific men who spend years and
years, practically burying themselves
among the Indians for years to learn
their language and their secrets, and
tablishing great schools to teach its
children to forget those same languages
It seems to me that the very wisest
thing to do is to teach Filipino along
with English. Retain the language In
all its purity. For many years no at
tention was paid to the Gaelic language,
and it is thought that but a handful Of
people are now living who speak 1t in
all its purity. At the present time there
is a serious attempt to revive interest In
st, and classes are being formed in many
of the large cities to study the now
practically dead language of the wits
of the world, the Irish. A century hence
there will be classes for the same pur-
pose, but it will be to revive interest in
the Filipino languages.
Tney do say that the Wrights have
made a great hit in the home of the
Mikado, Tokyo. Japan. Miss Wright,
who is very beautiful girl, has quite
taken the people of the imperial court
by storm. There was a good deal of
question as to how they were all going
to be received in Japan, for Mrs. Wright
is very high and mighty. She is a
daughter of Admiral Semmes, of the
rebel navy, and of unsavory fame in
that connection Mrs Wright has abat-
an6 of the divine institution of servi-
tu6e for some" and makes more or less
trouble for her genial husband wher-
ever they go. Gen. Wright was Cover
nor of the Philippines for a time, and
had to quit because Mrs. Wright was
persona non grata to the people there.
- She considered them all ''niggers," and
refused to associate with any of them.
no matter what their social position
and SO Gov. Wright resigned, and was
appointed first American ambassador to
Japan, where 1t seems they are getting
aiong all right.
Organized labor is after Littlefield. o.
Maine, and his defeat has been ordered
by President Gornpers. Consequently
there IS fun a-olenty up in the Pine
Tree State about now. Speaker Cannon
has anlimbered his guns, and will heir
Littlefeld win. This is the first real
open fight that the American Fedora
ton of Labor has made In the political
field. and the organization feels thai
much depends upon winning, for 1t will
be of great assistance in future fights
against candidates who will not promise
to support in Congress those method:
and measures ordered by the Fedora
ton of Labor.
When a good woman dies all hel
friends and everybody in the ccmmuni
ty mourns. Thus II happens that there
is scarcely home in the civilized worlC
where there was not genuine regret a
the early death Of Mary Leiter-Curzon
She was a beautiful woman in body
soul and spirit. She was the true typ,
of American girl OF whom we are proud
While she elected to marry an English
man 1t was purely love match. and h,
was not titled, nor was there any pros
psct OF 1t. Yet he rose in power secont
only TO that of the King of England
and our beautiful Mary, his wife. ros
with him, filing every station In lif
with dignity and grace and honor to al
concerned. Moreover, she made hersel
loved by everybody. Lady Curzon's de
votion to her old father was one of tn
most beautiful things in her life, an,
he failed visibly after she went abroad
When she was married in Washington
as she turned from the altar and face,
the guests crowded In old st. Johns, sh
threw back her filmy vail and caugh
her father in her arms and kissed him
1t was q beautiful thing to do. She ha
never been strong since his death The
were all in all to each other, and sh
grieved herself into an illness becaus
she could not come home to the funera
Her third child. third daughter, wa
born shortly after his death, and sh
never fully rallied from the severe Ill
ness of that date. Honors have bee
paid her such as have heretofore bee
accorded only royal personages. and sh