Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-27


fuses, beheld their work first deridcd
and then destroyed while they them
selves, discharged with insults, found
themselves scorucd and Inundated lbs
those they had lahored to help. There
resulted an assertion Of native super
iOrty over Americans and every
where throughout the Christian prov
inces Americans and their own gov
eminent refused to protect them II
soon became known to the FilipInos
that whenever an American and a
Filipino clashed the government was
with the Filipino
Government Lands Stolen.
About half the land area of the
islands is government land and this is
the richer half too. All the immense
forests belong to the government A
/ splendid land and forestrg department
service has been built up The land
department was one of the first OBJ
1 iects OF attack. A Filipino director
began the villainous work He had not
E been In year when it was charged
4 he had stolen from the government
something like 5000 acres of the bes
4 land and had obtained land for prac'
+ tiCally att his relatives, even going 50
! far as to change records In the office
] that he or his relatives might get q
! particular tract This condition wa'
I generally known
Resigns With Honor
was he prosecuted No indeed
he belonged to the right political par
/ ty. He was allowed to resign and tn,
governor general in accepting his res
4 ignauon Fave him one of the finest
/ professional testimonials one ever
read. 1t was sent to America in this
form and Washington was led to be-
neye our government mad lost the
services Of most excellent official
Health Work abandoned.
THE biggest achievement Of Ameri.
ca, / think, was the couquering of dis
ease in the islands-a land afflicted
lquite as badly as Panama ever was
and infinitely harder To- clean mp. il
was a marvellous triumph of American
medical skill and American admins
tration. Many good Filipino doctors
had been educated and were enlisted
lin the work Hundreds of trained
! Filipino nurses were bringing health
safety to the millions there Domestic
animals We're being protected from
disease and crops were shielded from
insect pests The Philippines had
been turned from a disease cesspoo
into delightful and sanitary abiding
place
Plaques Rayage Country.
But many of the laws and regu-
lations were not popular because the5
ran counter to customs and prcjudIces
SO the efficiency of the whole struc-
ture was sacrificed Rindcrpest Is
Strengthening work ana domestic ami
mails throughout the provinces. while
hordes of locusts for two years now
have devastated vast areas Of crops
The appearance Of every barrio and
city at once shows what has become
Of the excellent sanitation that for
merly prevailed, The details would
only shock Now and then, however
as in the case of the city of Cchu the
appearance Of the city has very mae
/ terially improved
ut would be interesting to ascertain
what becomes of the money appropr-
ated for municipal purposes was
/ told many times by those whose duty
iit is 70 know how money rs spent that
of late common practice is for the
officials to do as little as possible Of
municipal work and appropriate All
the rest to salaries. II later they
found they could further Top off mu-
nicipal work, they promptly increased
their salaries One man was pointed
out to me who had thus raised his
own salary three times in one month.
Famous Hospital Wrecked.
Il must say one word about the
fate Of the great general hospital.
This was completed "A few years ago
modelled after "a famous Berlin hos
pital. and physicians pronounced IT
one Of the finest. as il is one Of the
largest. in the world was Of the
utmost importance to the government
and to the people Two years aso 1t
was the pride of every Filipino and
every American In the Islands To-day
il is dead mans chamber The hos
pital force has been disorganized and
Of the old force there remained only
two or three. who have herolcalH
struggled on hut now have given up
"The government institution which