The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-04

that the average daily wage is about
twenty-five cents. This money was
spent nnlawfully. Under the law If
frage is denied when any tax is UNI
paid. What these candidates did wa
ito pay delinquent taxes and in sane
instances debts.
Only about three per cent of tho
population of the islands eve have
voted: but.were 1t not that politicians
paid taxes and other debts only about
one per cent would vote. The law
grants franchises. to those who held
Office during the Spanish regime: or
who speak. read or write English or
Spanish or own property OF the value
ofx*2S0. or pay taxes to the amount
q NS$15. AS there are five distinct
tribes, speaking nearly seventy diffeS-
ent dialects. more than S5 per cent
Of the population is disfranchiscd in
the first instance.
Result Of Release From Peonagc.
The American system has released
the small farmer and laborer from
peonage and it has worked injury to
see. no reason for working while he
has food and shelter. This is one of
the greatest drawbacks to agriculture.
A motive for work is necessary. The
motive may be a debt, desire for a
holiday feast, Il pair Of shoes, Il dress,
or money to bet on a game cock or
some other unimportant reason. De.
sire to dress we'll is ono Of the great
est, incentives. All Filipinos like fine
clothes.
Release from peonage has caused.
the abandonment of much land near
former ccnters of population. There
are also thousands of quare miles
practically u%nexplored in Luzon. Min
danao. Mindero. Eegros and Palawan.
The provinces adjoining the metropo-
lis itself have vast tracts virtually
u~ninhabited.
Don't Want Americans to Leave.
After years of American rule, the
question arises: Are the lTilipinos hap
Ply: 1t has already been stated that
lthey are; Then why do they desire us
cent do not desire us to leave. The
great majority have never been ION.
Suited To damn the government and
preach the rights Of man is as fas-
cinating to the Filipino as to the
American politician. The Filipino
may listen to a speech on the immedi-
ate independence Of the Philippines.
but he knows it will not come about.
And If there should be a decree to-
morrow, that the American control
was to cease at once, there would he
a panic OF the large property wners.
Much has been said about schools.
Man! eulogies nave been written of
results accomplished. True. phenomena
al work has been done. Thousands
have written of the thirst for knowl-
edge. how the Filipinos were crying
for schools rather than bread. It may
he so. but their crying is not so loud
as to disturb. One great mistake liz
the work Of education was the at
tempt to o~ccidentalize the Filipino
without recognizing the fact that he
was an oriental. This same error was
made in other branches of the govern
ment as we'll. It is recognized that
there is an oriental mind: that racial
traits. environments and heredity have
made 1t so.
Filipino Imagination.
The climate has made the Filipino
abnormally imaginative when COM
pared o the American. In the NOV
ing picture theater I have heard hun
dreds shout Run! Rum" when the
villain pursues the fair lady: and
when he is about to strike her they
would excitedly shout Don't! Don.t!"
And when the Cyclops picked off the
sailors of Ulysses they cried ooh! OH"