The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16

urply satisfactory.
Mr.. Latflin. who has charge of tie
extension OF the Manila street railway
SAWS that he would ask for no b'llrI
rr more industrious WOrkmen than
HE Filipinos in his employ The
whole question of using them lies, he
says. in learning how to handle them.
''Iher- IS another tax the revenues
OF which 90 to the province and
municipalities. This is the zeal es-
tate tax. ia" maximum OF which Is
e\tn-cighth of ! cent. Usually the
maNiuiu is levied. and when i is III"
revenue is divided like this: One
uarter Of | per cent goes to the g'n-
elal provincial expense. one-elght OF
one ! per cent goes TO the provincial
road fnMd: one quarter OF ] per cent
goes to the school fund: and the
other one quarter Of | per cent goes TO
the general municipal fund. II any
surplus should occur in this. provls'oi
is made tor 1t to 20 to road hHildIhg
for everything possible is turned to-
ward developing the country. I'M
| proved and unimprOved property is
taxed the same: in short. the princi-
pie is that of the single tax. There Is
no personal property taxation.
''At first there was general objection
to the taxation of real estate. 1t had
never been paid under Spanish rule
and the people could not understand
, it.. There were men whose income was
$50 900 and more a year who paid no
taxes at all. Siuce the tax was put
in force and they see the justice and
necessity of it,, there is no longer any
objection.
municipalities are governed much
on the same plan as in most cities IN
the United States. There are from
eight to eighteen councillors, whose
term of Office is two years, half being
elected each year. These elect a
president and vice president, the
former corresponding in duties and
powers with the mayor of an Amerl-
can city.
Each year this council must make
up a budget of its receipts, its bal
ances on hand, its Indebtedness and
an estimate of what it believes Will be
needed to run the municipality during
the coming year. This must be sub
mitted to the provincial treasurer,
and if he thinks some items are I'M
necessary, he may wipe them out. la
short on finances. the provincial
treasurer is a court of last resort. |
have never had any trouble IL this r.
| gard, for | always talked matters over
with the councillors and they have al
ways met me cordially and when our
discussion ends on a subject we never
fail 20 agree.
AS to the conditions there | mus
say that they are excellent. When |
left for America, there were just eight
teen inmates in the n PROVINCIAL prison
and remember hat the population
of the province is about %. 600.
Crime is at a minimum. liz this prov
incial prison we contine criminals
whose sentence is two years or less.
Others have to 60 to the insular nri-
son at Manila.
II consider myself and property
perfectly safe in the province in which
| live. | think there are very few
communities in America which can
tell as good q story.
II wish to say also that the condl-
tions in the province AmbOs Camar-
ines is on a par with hal in the var
iOus other provinces in the islands In
general
MIR. Braden was asked if he thought
much of the somewhat general talk in
America to the effect that some OF
these days the United States would un-
load the PHILIPPINES on some other
alton. Said he:
II don't think that will ever come tC
pass. | believe our island possessions
in the far east are ours forever.
America has a great duty to perform
and | am happy to say is performing
it splendidIv. America is DIN tC
make the FiliDinos a much create I
people than they have eve been and
dents and breakdown> than most. and