The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-03
America in the Philippines
H.-MANILA, AN AMERICAN CITY.
Ry Frederic J. Haskin.

fore the Americans came. as nobody but
the Spanish and a very few rich natives
wore them. The Spauish-nlade sn0e a.
long, pointed and flat, very instrument
OF torture. European shoes OF any MAKE
are Dil5SfUltE innocent OF an arcnlLecluIal
design which takes into account the es-
sential difference between right loot ana
left foot Shoes viii wear out ana al
around the mail boat circle of the orient
one hears suffering a Americans say ing
had TO get these blamed shoes because my
good ones wore out But just wait unlll
1 get to Manila; then won't j throw these
things away and set some sure-enoush
shOes!'
OF course. there are American shoes on
sale in other oriental cities, but they nave
been made Cor export trade on Enellsn
/ lasts, and no American can wear lhehl
with comfort.
The newspapers have their news on the
first page, have headlines, have JOKES,
and look exactly like any other American
newspaper that can't afford DIG tee
Srdph service. IL costs thlrty-SlN cents
a word, press rate, to cable from san
Francisco to Manila, so the newspapers
worry along with scanty bulleune. But
they are conducted with charactefisue
American energy and one OF Inein mas
paid two dividends since Jan. /, 1919.
Manila, being "a Well-TegulaIed Amerl-
can city. has "a carnival each year IL Is
/ held in February. when the weather here
is ideal, and this year the people came
from all over the Philippine Islands ana
from Australia and from all up and down
the China coast. Represa ntauVeS or All
/ the English newspapers Of the Chinese
cities were invited as guests of the city
They came dD1 had a royal time ana leIJ
characteristic souvenir. They were as
founded that Governor General Smith met
them and treated them as if th-y We're
real human beings even though they
Were only editors. No British governor
general would so far forget himself. 30
when Martin EEan the editor Of the
I
paper one day they accepted, declaring
| they would write editorials approaching
| the great hospitality with which they had
| been received.
| The Times came out that afterHoon and
struck Manila with dismay. Men threw
/ il off the street cars and 'Cussed' the
newsboys for selling it. 1t didn't look
/ Ike q newspaper. The first page, OF
/ course, was all adveT tisements. The sec
| Ond started off the same way, but in the
I third column came the leader followed
/ by dozen other heavy editorials. Then
| there was the news. No miserable re
porter was driven TO brain flag by being
] forced To write q smashing new lead
/ Tor the tenth day of the carnival Not a
/ bit of il. The head line was The Car
HivaL' Under that in slightly smaller
/ type was the second head The Pro-
gram" The first sub-heud was 10 a. m.
| and SO on. 1t was the official program
| of the carnival and being official had to
/ so just as it was.
Some of the Americans of Manila who
/ read through the leader and the heavy
editorials rolled up their sleeves and
( wanted to fight but Martin Egan prom
/ ised them it would rever happen again
and the British were saved There WASH
( anything offensive in the editorials, they
merely expressed surprise that Manila
was a civilized city sfter ten years OF
/ American rule. In fact the editorials
| We're intended to be highly compliment
/ airy, but somehow or other failed 10 reach
] the Yankee comprehension of praise.
s
/ Philippine islands hardly realizes the eX-
! tent Of the territory Uncle Sem acquired
eleven years ago by enc Of those aCcl-
/ dents that are sometimes inevita BILE. even
/ in the best of regulated nations After
/ visiting the islands and looking them
/ over and especially after having visited
| Manila and observed the transformation
I that has resulted from American Occupa-
ton. the same American feels that his
country might have Jared worse, although
it could hardly have gone further. The
port Of Manila is more distant from the
/ Jnlted states than almost any other port
for which the American globe trOtter sets
| sail. No matter whether he comes to tho
Islands an ardent ''lmperiaEst' or an i'm
4 movable opponent of ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
territory ana enL2nTllng foreign inter
estS.' the pleasing prospects before hin
cause him to smile upon smiling tropiC
land.
Whether it is the Stars and Stripes ovei
the government office the soda fountain
in the corner drug store, the shoes on tn,
feet of the Filipino. the ice in the glas-
of drinking water, the Mississippi gentle
man Of color cooking for the short orde,
restaurant, the high price of street cal
transportation. the baseball uniforms. tn.
newspaper headlines. the Irish policemen
/ at the corner; whether If Is the combina
ton of these things and more Of the sam,
order or whether it is simply TO be agar
\ among 'min5 own people the traveller
seeks his bed at the end of his first day
in Manila with a happy little flutter il
Il the region of his heart. He is an Ameri
can and he is at nome, the widest oil
oceans to the contrary notwithstanding.
/ Tomorrow" America in the Philip
pines III-Everyday Life in Manila.