Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-23
DR.. SCHELL talks
ON PHILIPPINES
SECOND OF SERIES GIVEN BE-
FORE BROTHERHOOD OF
FIRST M. r. CHURCH.
SHOULD HOLD ISLANDS
Disaarees With Policy Of Present Al.
nninistration In Colonization Mat
tiers; Says Living Conditions
Are IntoIerabIe.

| H. EuWln "A. Schell, president OF
Iowa Wesleyan college, gave the Sec
ond OF series of lectures on the Phil
lprine Islands at the regular meeting
OF the Brotherhood of the First Meth
odist church in the Sunday school
rooms Monday evening. Dr. Schell
told of the appointment of Governor.
General Harrison to the islands and
how his policy had resulted in living
conditions rapidly becoming worse,
and of the consequent emigration OF
the Americans in that country. He
| stated that the present administration
had not successfully COPIED with the
situation. His address in part follows:
! In 1871. when the star of Spain was
fastening to it's setting, Legaspi sailed
in past Corregidor and made the first
civilized settlement at Manila. The
new province ran the gamut of all the
Spanish governors Year after year
| representatives of old SPANS families
! went out as governors general. Office
! in Manila for the past three centuries
| has not meant chance for service,
but an opportunity to enrich ones SELF
| at the expense OF the government.
With the Spanish officers came the
Spanish church, and the very blood OF
the Philippine population was corrupt
ed by these Spanish dons and priests.
And then one day the unexpected
happened. There came the Maine dis
aster, and in the events which follow
ed in rapid sequence an empire was
thrust upon the United States A little
brown baby was put into our hands.
and the question today is, shall We let
the baby squall or turn it over to less
capable hands for management? In the
first ten years of it's possession of the
Philippines the United States did the
finest job of colonization in the history
of the world.
eve had hardly cornered and con-
quered Aguinaldo until we began in
the school master business. OF all the
grafters that have ever grated, Agui-
raldo was one of the greatest. He
decided to himself twelve hundred acres
of the finest agricultural land in the
islands, land that is worth today all
the way from five hundred to thous-
and dollars per acre. There we're some
seven hundred thousand pesos in the
treasury, which Is about three hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars in Our
money, and which he quietly turned to
his own account. But the natives ex-
cused him, because they had learned
to look upon all Offices as opportunities
for acquiring personal riches.
u. S. Develops Resources.
Immediately following the war the
United States set about to reform
economic, religious, sanitary and edu-
cational conditions. They got busy and
developed the natural resources of
the islands, in order that the natives
might be given chance to work. They
taught them how to weave straw and
make hats which are sold in the shops
for 'panamas' They made Manila
hemp one of the most helpful indus
tries of the country. The sugar and
tobacco industries have progressed by
leaps and bounds. They taught them
how to eat three meals a day, and how
to raise corn. The teaching of the
Filipinos how to raise an Iowa crop
of corn was one of the most remark
able things in our civilization"
DR.. Schell told of the improved sani-
tary conditions in the islands, of the
new water supply and the consequent
decrease in contagious diseases. In
1902" he said, there were one hum
dred and twenty-one thousand cases of
cholera in the islands, seventy-eight
thousand of which resulted in death.
Since 1907 there has been but one case
of cholera in the Philippines, and that
was a Portuguese sailor who was
'tanked up and landed on the islands,
and who later died.
Should Keep Order.
THE first thing a government must
do anywhere continued the speaker,
lis to keep order. 1t should have
some law and some government, and
it cannot have law without order.
That is the prime business of the gov
eminent, and il any fellow cannot keep
order, he should be licked. It is the
business of the colonizing nation to
keep order. without which there can
be no civilization,
"The natives of the Philippine
Islands have always been poems and
slaves, and it is to our shame that
since we have taken possession of the
country thousands of persons have
been bought apd sold in servitude. The
first thing the new Wilson administra.
ton did was to take the Philippine
government by the throat and shake
them until they passed penal legisla.
ton to remedy this condition.