The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-09
FROM PH|L|PP|NESA As
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE
Robert F.. Manly Didn't Know
Ii When He Left Home.
Though.
so FAR Is UNRESTRICTED
Progressing Slowly Here. He
Read in Spain Of His Choice
at Election.
so FAR rs UNRESTRICTED

lhe first delegate from the Philippines
TO the forthcoming Democratic national
convention has arrived at the Wal
dorf He is Robert T. Manly Of Albay
and Nueva Caceres. in southern l.izon
MIR. Manly didn't head this way with the
intention of being "A delegate. and the
Democratic convent ion out there didn't
meet until he had got to Europe. on a slow
progress in this direction. but while in
Barcelona, Spain. he got hold of Manila
paper. and il told Of his election 50 far
Mr.. Manly ia uninstructe<i
Mr.. Manly went out to the Philip
pines with the North Dakota volun-
teers in lsas. He came back and went
out again in 1901, and he has remained
there ever since. practising law and
getting into the mining business and
growing hemp He said yesterday thai
nobody had ever informed him that he
bore strong resemblance to Gov. Waiter
Roscoe Stubbs of Kansas
The district | am in is in the great
hemp region" said Mr. Manly. "Outside
OF those engaged in mining or who are
in the Government service there are few
Americans in that part of the island
The only way We have of getting to Manila
is by one of the interisand boats. journey
of thirty-six hours. We have been trying
10 get the Government 10 make Albav
an entry port. There is very deep water
there, and we could accommodate any
ship that could enter New York harbor.
but We still have 10 send all our produce
to Manila before i, can he shipped from
the Philippines
The gold mines of the Philippines
are in the Paracale and Mamhlilao dis
tricts. They have been worked for hun
dreds of years. though until few years
ago the work was al canning Three
or four years ago We serted in TO dredge
the Paracale River AID similar work was
started on the Gumaus and the Bulacao
The average output has been 100 to 200
ounces dredge week. which has paid
The first dredges We got were second hand
machines from New Zea aland and some
what an,quated We are now putting
in new American dredges which will give
better results.
There is keen interest now out there
in rubber planting. Such experiments
as have been made have been satisfactory
for they have demonstrated that rubber
can be grown quite as well in certain
parts OF the Philippines as in the Malay
States. and a number of concerns have
gone in for rubber cultivation. Then
there is a lot being done in cocoanut
planting. for copra. or dried cocoanut
commands a good price.
There are practically no Europeans
left in the part of the Philippines where
! live. Their departure from the pro-
vincial towns has been noticeable. They
have been crowded out. and the business
that was formerly in their hands, such as
dealing IN hemp. rice and copra, has been
| absorbed by Chinese merchants.
Practising law in the Philippines diff
fers to some extent from here. The Span
ish civil law Is still in force. with minor
changes. hut the procedure il the same
now as under American law At the pres-
ent time the law is being codified The
civil law il very good. Criminal law ont
there doesn't conform in many rcspec, =
to American ideas of what is right and
Just FOR instance, tn" punishment in
! flicted for Justification of a public docu-
mcnt. no matter how inconset,,l ,,lpn, ial
the amount involved would carry with il
u sentence OF about fourteen wears i'm
prisonment. 4 case came up only last
year where justice of the peace failed
to account for some fees he had received
There were probably half dozen re-.
to give. the sum total of them being he.
tween 81 and 81. He was convicted and
sentenced to fourteen years some months
and some days,
"On the other hand. the law out there
for something We should punish in the
States by a sentence Of two 10 three wear,
might provide "A penalty of n mere fine
or thirty days in Jail,
southern Lizo is in some respect,
a sportsman's paradise There are an,
quantity Of deer, and all kinds of ducks
canvashacks. mallards. teal and wha
not and an abundance of wild boar
There il no close season. Why, have sa
on the porch nt my rice plantation and sho
numbers of fine ducks.
We are now importing rice into th,
islands at the rate of nearly half a million
dollars worth "A month. whereas we should
he exporting much more than that. Tn,
rlnderpest in 1900 killed of probably NOR,
than Is per cent Of the catt 10 and cara Lao
and the surra killed lot Of horses. Tha
left many parts Of the island wlthom
farm animals. They are now getting botl
diseases under control. and the Caraba,
are gradually increasing, As it is. no
more than 25 per cent. Of the arabic lane
IN the islands u under cultivation