Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-02-03
FILIPINO
GRADUALLY
REFORMING
Some Killing Necessary 10
Bring Results.
REPORT ON THE PAST YEAR
SHOWS VAST IMPROVEMENT
Only the Moro Still Shows DISPOSE.
tiOn to Doubt PhHanthropic Pur-
pose Of His Uncle Sam.

Washington. Feb. 2-The annual re-
port of the Philippine commission for
l9O4-5, together with the separate re-
ports to the commission of the COVER
nor-general of the islands and Of the
heads of the four executive depart
ments, has just been published by the
war department
The encouragement, in his report
to the Philippine commission, states:
With the exception Of the provinces
of Cavite, Batangas, and Samar, peace
and order have generally prevailed
throughout the islands. Except in
these provinces the instances of law
lessness have been few and insignifi-
cant. Cattle stealing, which was COM
mon two or three years since, has al
most entirely ceased, and this, togeth-
er with the sense of security which has
come to the people from a vigorous
pursuit of these evil doers, has princi-
pally contributed to the increased cul-
tivation mentioned above. The prov
inces OF Cavite, Batangas and Samar
have been much afflicted during the
which for a considerable time past
have terrorized and plundered the peo-
pie at intervals The effect of their de-
predations resulted in the abandon
ment by many of the inhabitants OF
their richest and best agricultural
lands and the moving into the towns
of the farming class, where to some
extent at least police protection was
afforded them.
The wild and semi-barbarous hill
I men OF Samar, fired by the fanatfcal
teachings Of an old Filipino who call
ed himself Pope" Bulan, who sup
piled the soldiers with charms called
'antig-anting which they were told
rendered them invulnerable to bullets.
banded together under the direction OF
several shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS lead
ers, some OF whom had been outlaws
from Spanish times, and began a Sc
ries Of attacks upon the isolated de-
tachments of constabulary and the
peaceful and inoffensive people who
did not want to join them. in which
they committed many cruelties and
barbarities.
The governor general and two mem
bers Of the Philippine commission
made a personal visit to the island OF
Samar and held a number of hearings
with the people and officials, from
which it appeared that the discomfort
OF the people was largely II not wholly
caused by the fact that the local offl-
cials of the coast towns were acting as
the agents Of the large export houses
3 In, 40 saf
the principal product of the island,
and that In many cases they had not
dealt fairly with the poor, ignorant
people who inhabited the more remote
barrios and the hill country, as they
took their hemp at a merely nominal
valuation and very much below the
market value and turned IL In TO the
export houses at the market price, and
when the producer protested against
/ this imposition he was arrested on
some trumped-up charge and thus
both despoiled and punished. With the
sense of injustice and wrong ranking
I'm the BREASTS of these ignorant aud
credulous people their feeling of dis
content was readily famed into
fame by few agitators, who told the
government was planning to tax them
60 pesos apiece as poll tax and 40
pesos for land tax The leaders took
ON religious rather than political
names, and the disturbance had no po-
litical significance whatever.
1t seemed both polite and Just that
the causes which led to the outbreak
should be eradicated, which necessar-
lily involved total change of adminis-
tration, both provincial and municipal
In order to prevent a recrudescenee of
these outbreaks II was necessary to get
more closely In touch with these re-
mote hill people, many Of whom had
never before seen white man, and In
order to accomplish this the new gov
ernor who speaks the native dialect.
has been industrlously occupied In vls-
iting and reorganlzing various munlc-
ipallties, establishing schools and get-
ting in touch with the people and the
good work done by him Is already very
apparent as many OF the 'pulahanes'
have voluntarily surrendered, bringing
in their guns a few Of which were
captured by sudden attacks on outly-
ing detachments OF the constabulary
al the beginning Of the disturbance
and 1t now looks as though the worst
Is over in Samar IL is not doubted
that when schools are established
among them and they become moro
enlightenedsand are made to appreci-
ate the benefits and blessings of decent
and orderly living. they will become
law-abiding and prosperous.
The province OF Cavite. known az
'the mother OF ladrones." has again
been the theater for the operations OF
4 Is class OF people. generally recruit
ed from the idle and vicious classes
who have preyed upon the peaceahle
and inoifensIve people. Their leaders.
mostly OF whom had criminal records
during the spanish regime styled
themEelvos BY sucll names as "Dicta-