The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
BRYAN WITH AND THEIR

The superintendent of the railroad from Manila to Daeupan. an English man, speaks very highly of the Ffiipi- nos employed on the road. He says that he uses natives entirely for the train service and that he has not had an accident on the road during the thirteen years of its operation.
 A large company of men were un- loading stone and gravel from barges near our hotel, and they were as m dustrious and as cheerful a lot or workmen as one could wish to see. They carried the material in baskets and accomplished more. as far as l could judge, than the coolies whom saw at similar work in China. The Filipino demands better treatment than that accorded to the coolie, but when employed by those who understand him and show him proper considera- tfon. he is both competent and faith full
 In the government printing office nearly nine-tenths of the employees arc natives (and the proportion Is in creasing), and MT. Lcech. the public printer, informed me that they readi- ly learned the work and were able to run the typesetting machines and presses, do the book binding and stere- otyping and other skilled work con | offices of the city also employ native labor, and I need not remind the read CTS that the members of the various typographical unions of the united States are among the most intelligent of our skilled laborers. We visited the largest tobacco factory in Manila, the Germina1 and found between 1,200 and 1.500 men and women making cigars and cigarettes by hand and by ma oh Gaunrat smaller fac tories and all are operated by native labor,
 Ono of the leading furniture manu- lecturers of Manila Is authority for the statement that in wood carving the Filipino soon becomes the equal of the Japanese artisan. The Philippine islands are 70 near the equator that the heat of the sun during the middle of the day and the almost twelve months of summer must be taken into consideration. When due allowance is made for the climatic conditions and for the fact that the inhabitant Of the tropics lacks the spur of necessity which ever urges on the dweller in higEer attitudes, one is inclined<to ex- cuse any seeming lack of industry. Sure 1t Is that those who come here from America and Europe do not, as a rule, do enough manual labor to ena-
  them and the natives.
 Besides those who work in the fields, on the streets and in the factories, there is an. army of fishermen and boatmen. Fish forms considerable part of the food supply of the islands, and these are brought from the ocean, from the rivers and from the lakes by a hardy and active people. Much of the commerce is carried by water. and tha hoafs are manned by natives. Except where the Chinese have monop- olized the mercantile business, the stores are kept by Filipinos, the men and the women sharing the labor, as they do in France.
 And speaking of the women, it must be remembered that woman occupies much higher place in the Philip pines than in any other part of the orient. The Filipinos contend that even before Spanish influence made it. self felt in the islands woman was &C., corded an equal place with man and divided with him both the honors and the responsibilities of the home. How ever this may be, it cannot be doubted that at present the rights of woman and her position in the family and in society are respected fully as much as in continental Europe. Her influence is felt in industrial and political life. as well as in the church. At one re- ception a lady law student delivered an xcellent address.
 Under Spanish rule education was