Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-05-30
How the Money
Was Spent.

| Gen. Isaac r. Sherwood, al
old Union:veteran. now a membe
of Congress from Ohio, In speak
ing of the way the public money
was spent under a Republican ad
ministration, said:
Only short time ago my at
tention was called by a promi
nent Republican Congressman
from Kansas to a contract fol-
hay for consumption in the Philip
pines, The Quartermaster's De.
partment let contract for 49,.
600 tons of hay for the Philip.
pines to contractors in the State
of Washington at $32 per ton,
when Kansas contractors had
offered to put Is, 600 tons Of hay
down at Manila at $22 per tom
just as good hay.
THE difference between the
lowest bidder and the big one''
who secured the contract was
$50, 600.
Judge J. M. Lidde1l, formerly
of Carlton. Miss, a prominent
and reliable gentleman, told me
that he was in Manila when a
$35, 900 cargo of mules arrived
from the Pacific slope. These
were the mules that were ex-
pected to eat this S32 ton hay.
When this mulish cargo left the
Pacific slope we (Uncle SAM
had our $35O,OOO invested in
these extraordinarily high-priced
mules,
when the cargo arrived at
Menila there was just one mule
left on his legs, and the high
salaried quartermaster general
at Manila reported his death two
eeks later.
One of those tropical typhoons,
tyoical of the Chinese sea, struck
that $350,O00 cargo of mules,
destined to assimilate our west
ern civilization with Filipino
civilization, and the mules that
were not thrown overheard or
drowned on deck were leg broken,
or neck broken, or back broken,
or neck broken, and had to be
destroyed
Mr.. Jones, chairman of the
Insular Affairs Committee, in an
elaborate and carefully prepared
speech on the floor of the House,
delivered January %. 1912, said:
president Taft said in New
York that the Philippines have
cost the United States to date
only S3,OOO.OOO for civil expenses,
and that this money was ap-
propriated to save them from
starvation Well do 1 remem-
Der that Congress donated this
money to save the furnishing
Filipinos from starvation, but
does President Taft know that a
considerable part of it was ex-
pended On the .Benguet automo-
bile road? The act of Congress
declared that the money should
be expended for the relief of
distress IN the Philip p e
Islands In the estima tiou of
the commission these starving
Filipinos stood more in need of
an automobile road than of the
rice to purchase which the
American people in their gener-
osity gave this money, The
Benguet Road is a highway less
than 20 miles in length, built at
cost of several million dollars
in gold through mountain gorge
to health resort or residential
park, called Baguio, to which
place, at great expence, the seal
of government is transferred
from Manila for several month:
each year, and where American
officials have handsome homes
club, houses, polo grounds an(
other sources of recreation ant
amusement. The Filipinos hav'
from the beginning been violent
ly opposed to these vast and abso
lutely inexcusable expenditures
Not only has it cost millions t
build this automobile roa'
through rugged mountains;
highway that is used solely TO
purposes of recreation and pleas
ure-but the cost of its upkeep !
perhaps not less than 500, 600
year."
i Francis Warning Lewis, 9
years old. died Tuesday at hi
home in Prince William county
of pneumonia. Mr.. Lewis wa
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