The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-09

| ed a big agitation in Manila for the
establishment of some sort of a rescue
home for the children of Filipino moth
ers. abandoned by American soldiers,
OF still living with worthless fathers.
The letter was in part as follows:
"Your little Human Interest story
in this mornings issue Of the Cable
news regarding the abandoned chill
dren of the sick detective and their
deplorable condition opens up a big
question and one that bespeaks the
best efforts of the great-hearted Anne
ricans to be found in all communities,
who give of their time and store and
human sympathy without stint, for the
alienation of suffering, especially Of,
as are the many abandoned American
mestizo children in t. csc islands.
at somehow gives one a queer
catch in the throat to ride through al
. barrio and encounter dirty little
chap clothed in rags, but with the
frank, blue eyes nd the light hair,
and maybe the freckles of a typical
American boy and upon addressing
! him in English have him answer in
some dialect, as he looks up wistfully
at the white man whose heritance OIL
= language is even denied him by cir
cumstances.
"This story is an old, old one and
= i has been threshed out thoroughly in
Spain times and provided for by those
who aided in founding the orphan
asylum known as the Asilo de Huer-
fanos and which received the deepest
/, sympathy and help that could be given
:. by both the fathers of the Augustinian
church, upon whom the burden finally
fell, and of the government.
at has often been noted that the
= American soldiers abandoned child
o has for a mother a woman of tie
;, poorer classes; which makes it i'm
possible for her to properly care for
:, her children and give them the place
- in life that their blood entities them
to.
r. what American lady can contem
~ plate with equanimity Sthe fate of
,r these little slips?
IS American girls growing to woman
n hood rapidly in the provinces and
ic whose poverty subjects them to the
fell designs of whatever person would
IN willingly obtain possession Of then
under the old customs Oh this country
I'll that makes slavery for debt a rea
it, thing, though the law condemns it anC
everybody loudly disclaims its exist
IT. ence.
he Nevertheless these little girls will
nd fall prey to the Chinese money-lenderl
IL and the sporty mestizos of the country
tn who will soon awake to the real signi
nd ficance of the situation and contro
Gu it, unless something is done in an OF
10 ganized way to protect these unfoI
ls' tunate children from the fate that lie
'p- in store for them.
vi ITO me the thought of meeting al
''e American girl barefoot in rags an
nc poverty, toting rice along the mudd
ne carabao trail in some barrio with he
owner and master trudging along bt
,,o hind, carrying an umbrella or rooster
is unbearable. How does it affeC
you? Are you willing to forego tn
nf ,,f hrfI q
in. cost OIL game Oh prluse' DoA
the opera, little dinner to friend
and put the price of it into an inst
tuition that will care for all deservin
cases of abandoned or needy Amer
to- can children, giving them home wit
ton Americans, if possible, an orphan
home otherwise, where they will hay
ian an opportunity to grow into men an
1pe women as BELTS their blood instead
rdi growing up as slaves and WORTHLESS
ami vagabonds? A nations culture is me
ger sured, not by the number of i
van schools, authors or rich men, but
van the attitude Of its people toward IL
van unfortunate.
Am l the keeper of my waywal
brothers children? must be answerC
in the affirmative by definite action
: this country, or the American COZ
in munity as whole must stand co
ich victed of holding the same attitu,
nee toward life in the Philippines as Il
IN transient soldier or civilian who
re- state of culture is such that he do
ain not and can not realize his respor
civ Utility before God and society for
moi. actions.
hen Those of you who have concerns
the yourselves so earnestly as to the W
len. fare Of the patient carabao, and
lith overlooking by his avariclous maste