The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-16
CAPT. CREAGER GIVES
VIEWS ON F|L|P|N0S
He Also Talks Interestingly
Of Great State of Wash
ingtOn.

Capt Noble II. Creager, an officer or
the Official staff OF the United States
Army. arrived in the city Saturday
evening and registered at the Kenyon.
When seen by O. Tribune representative,
the Captain said!
II am on my way from Walla Walla,
Wash. where | have been stationed dur
Ing the past two years. to Baltimore, to
report for orders. Walla Walla is a city
OF about 10000 inhabitants and very
wealthy place, many OF its citizens being
Independently rich. The city IS sur
rounded by rich agricultural country
and about the finest eat-growing re-
gion In all the country. IL is not unusual
to grow @ crop of wheat that viii aver
age nifty or more bushels to the acre. /
saw one man receive q check for s6S 900
for his one crop OF wheat 1t ia n treat
to SEQ the harvesting machines in oper-
alton. They are propelled by thirty-two
horses. These machines cut, thresh and
sack the grain as they go along. and the
sacks are sewed and dumped on four ot
time and are picked mp, put aboard
cars and shipped to market The soil is
volcanic formation and is sowed TO
wheat every other year. Washington is-
a great, but as yet, only partially devel-
oped country"
Before coming to Walla Walla the Cap
tain served three years 10 the Philip
pines. or tho peoples of those islands
Capt. Creager talked interestingly. He
said: The eduated classes, who by their
shrewdness and clever business ability
make rich OFF of the ignorant producers,
by buying what they produce at price
less than half OF what the middle man
makes, are generally in favor of inde-
pendence for tho islands, for the reason
that II left 10 themselves there would be
no power TO interfere with their wealth
accommodating schemes at the expense OF
n pla
United States Government is In control
the masses Will In a measure be pro-
teoted IN their property rights and civil
liberties, which would not be the case
were the protecting power OF the Govern
ment to be withdrawn"
And here. the Captain says, Is where
tho distinguished visitor gets an er-
roneous. idea OF those peoples fitness for
independence and self-goyernment. "A
visitor OF distinction never comes In con-
tact with or mingles among the masses.
He is received by the educated business
class, who are bright and shrewd and
who apparently and in fact are we'll
qualified for self-government. He goes
away firmly In the belief, based on tho
knowledge thus gained, that the Fillpiuos
are competent and OF right should be ac-
corded their independence. When in
truth and In fact he knows no more Of
the condition OF the ignorant masses than
pelore ianQlnB On thelr snores. lheIe
is not an army officer who has served
his Government among these people but
knows and will tell you that the Filipino
people are wholly united for independ-
ence and by their ignorance In meas
ure helpless. In many of the Islands
1t Will be necessary for the old stock TO
pass away before such an evolution In
a political direction can be thought Of"
Capt. Creager will pass the day sight
seeing. This evening he leaves for the
East over the Rio Grande railroad.