The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-10
zAMBOANGAM SAYS
MOROS ARE M|SJUDGED
One who Knows Them Thinks
the MahomedanssAre Much
in the Right.

"To know the Moro, you must speak
the Moro. dialect. ''ss
This sentence epitbmizes, says the
Manila ablcnews.American of May 3,
n hong interview with resident OF
Zamboanga, who arrived IN Manila yes.
terdav. charged to the bursting point
with indignatioit at recently published
accounts of conditions IN the MORO
Gone ihahdltIRisll A;raggcdl sshpany
of followers has. been cncaimped at ms
home near the summit of Bagsak. TO
imagine him fierce and nntamabie IN
dividual, secure against attack IN
craggy fastnoss and defiant OF all au-
thoritv. is worthy of a better leader
than is Anil and better eraggy fast
ness than Bagsak.
NOn the stones of Bagsak, and almost
TO the summit of the mount, there are
many barrios and villages populated by
| friendly Moros who are not in sympathy
with Anil. The peaceful residents of
the vicinity constitute majority OF
the thousands of renegades who have
fastness than Bagsak.
| "'You people in Manila have no con-
ception of the real condition which
| led Anil and his followers to quietly
retain their arms and decline volunta-
rily to surrender them to the Ameri-
cans First of all there was the re-
port that the general disarmament was
in preparation for independence, when
the Morcs would be turned over to the
Filipinos against their will and with
ont means to render effective their OBJ.
lection to the suspected change. When
the news was spread abroad the Moros
were panic.stricken. Some of them
we're intellectual enough to realize the
error of this report when it was ex-
planned to them, but others, with the
simple drectness of semi-civilzed peo-
PIE, took to the bosque, where they re-.
NAMED sometimes in force, until people
they trusted convinced them that it
was not the purpose of the American
government to dsarm them and turn
them over to the Filipinos.
"The work of winning these people
back to their onetime loyalty to the
; American government was no easy task,
, but il was accomplished without force
, of arms, which in itself was most
crcdtablc piece of work. That patience
and forbearance in the face of con-
slant and irritating resistance was the
better part of valor is shown by the
lutl lHl' WIS ItOHlC iidNt uuiCtis
, obeycd the disarmament order and re-
4 turned to their homes and normal pur.
G suits.
"Ami is the exception. Whether
/. from an insane idea that he could per-
4 pctually defy the authorities and gather
[ around him formidable army of rene
i gades, or through entire distrust of the
v people through whom he communicated
4 with the Americans, he has steadfastly
n refused 10 surrender his arms or even
/. to visit Jolo for "a conference with the
IS authorities. His home is on the slopes
' of Bagsak and with him there is the
:. ragtng and bobtail of the once nuIner
!. Gus body of Moros who suspected the
!. motives of the government in taking
/, away their arms.
/. every few men in the Moro district
understand thoroughly the Moro Ian
% guagc. 1t is difficult to learn, and 8
: smattcring of it is handy thing II
70 get in trouble with because of pecu
m iarities which make it easily misunder
stood and often incorrectly spoken
n Many Moros who understand some Eng
% fish do not enjoy the full confidence o.
ID the people, but as mono of them full,
nj understand our language they make va
In fious errors in translating, some o
n them unwilling ones.
IN cit is now charged that certain o
no the official Interpreters have not deal
F. squarely with the Americans, especial
al in tho attempts made to effect the sui
20 render of Anil, Whether or not thi
ri is true am in no position to say, blu
Ne it would not surprise me in the leas
!, if developments prove that the author
Of ties and Anil have never been clos
Go enough to each other to make mutus
-, understanding possible. Misintcrpreti
NO. ton could easily create such situs
=, ton and continue it indefinitely unit
really trustworthy interpreter cam
to the rescue.
The much-heralded battle on Bal
SAX will never take place, becau:
rs sooner or later some one will preva
upon Anil to abandon his foolish att
Al. tude. Then he and his men will con
Of down to Jolo, surrender their arms an
,a return to their FARMS
m This story of the Jolo situation, r
an lated with the assurance of man tho
az oughly familiar not only with the di
,cr ferences which have resulted in Il
IVY Anil affair, but with the condition
OF which make such affairs possible, Civ
ils' the Bagsak sensation something of
the new aspect, and is contrary in maj
ess respects 10 the general belief outsi
Of Moroland, that trouble eonfronts T.
ut military and civil authorities in eS
of cutting the disarmament order.