The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-03-19
Uncle Sam Abroad.

would burst in SplendOr upon his Wis
ion after weary way across sun
scorched seas From the land that
his discovery introduced to the world,
strong sons have arisen whose sails
track the ocean toward those shores
across the deep the two are now as
one BY an overruling Providence the
country to which his heroic faith gave
birth has fallen heir to the oriental
jewel formerly in the crown of that
nation which served as foster-mother
Of his proud conquests.
Mr.. Dooley remarks to his friend
Hennessey: Some folks hardly know
whether the Philippines are islands
or canned goods" One good brother
knew for he said he would read a chap
ter from Pauls epistle (sounding the
t. to the Philippines.
This insular group is a magnificent
rosary that nature has hung above
the heaving bosom of the Southern
Pacific. The combination of lake and
stream, mountain and plain, rich with
glossy LEAKAGE, clustered growths of
bamboo and palm; fields of yellow
cane, groves of bananas, great reaches
of growing rice, resulting from an
abundant rainfall, rich soil, an even
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equatorial waters, tend to make pic
lures richer by far than Nature ever
paints in the temperate zone. The
Water-cOlOr artist has not yet discov-
cred them. When he does they should
take their place in the magazines, the
editions de luxe, and in more perma-
nent art, as among the beauty spots
of the world.
The Philippines have been known
under many names since the mediae-
val Chinese traders, who We're we'll
acquainted with their possibilities,
wrote of them in ideographs of their
own. TO the earliest Portuguese voy-
ayers they were the Eastern" and
to the Spanish the ''Western" Islands,
showing the historic fact of the meet
ing of these two empire buildings ma
lions at this point in the course of
their triumphant progress around the
globe. The present name was given
in honor of King Phillip II Of Spain.
Being entirely in the tropics, the
islands have but two seasons-a dry
and wet, the former from November
to May. The coolest months are De.
cember and January. The aboriginal
people were unquestionably race of
pygmy blacks of whom small rem.
nants still exist under the name of
Negritos, little negroes" Aside from
these who are less than l per cent
of the total population (now about
eight millions) the whole of the pres
ent people belong to the brown OF
Malay race. A part of the non-chris
tian people are of the Mohammedan
faith and continue to be known by the
Spanish name of Moros, literally
Moors. These are very much like
other Filpinos, with a strain of pure
Malay, and a slight dash of Arat
blood, but their religion marks then
as the peculiar people of the Archi
pelago.
The Pampangans have a military
spirit. They served with the Dutcl
troops in Java during the 18th cen
fury. In the 18th they helped to make
the fame of the Ever Victoriou!
Army" under Gordon against the Taiu
ings, and followed the French flag il
Indo-China. Today they are an i'm
portant element in the Philippin,
Scout.
March &c. 1921, Ferdinand Magellan
the eXpatriated Portuguese noblemal
and navigator, sighted the coast O
Samar. Sunday, April 18th, he reache
the Island of Cebu. One week late
the history Of Christian missions il
the Philippines began with the bal
tism Of the ruler and many of his TO
lowers, accompanied by nominal sui
mission to the sovereignty of Spair
The first permanent settlement wa
effected by the expedition which sc
out from Mexico in 1864 under con
mand of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, VIII
became governor of the newly acquire
land. From this time down to the los
of SPANS American possessions tn
| islands were a dependency of Mex
co rather than of the mother countr
itself. In 1874 there was an attemI
\ at conquest on the part of the Chimes
\ With Japan the relations of tn
Philippines were at one time rattle
close, suggesting what may easil
come to pass again, by force or othe
wise, if the islands are cast adrf
The massacre of missionaries and tn
suppression of christianity in the TO
mer country, however, put an end