The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-08

U&WXDU IN savage formed the same opinion, in a general a ii
dents of Cincinnati, Ohio. UsA. who knew Bill when he RAJ a youngster
there and worked at the newspaper business. Honorary degrees and Office
holding have not changed the bent of the youthful twg. it would appear
Here is the editorial:
eomplexioned la clad in faulhess evening dress, and accosted him with the
The mn addressed replied, NO, madam"
Then you must be Chinese? she said.
NO, I am not; 1 am a Filipino" he replied.
"Hows that?" asked the lady. Il thought they were all savages living
in the woods
Well I'll tell you how I came here" he said "a month before I left the
Philippines 1 was living in the woods, but the American governor decided
to catch as many wild men IS possible, train them. and send them owe here
? Tn american forces were Immediately set in motion, We were taken from
the woods and kept for a month at the governors palace, taught how to
dress and speak a little English, and then sent owe here. So here I am.
just as you see" And the St Louis lady actually believed him.
That is what you would call fancies about the Philippines. The fact is
however, that the 100000 Fnipinos and their ancestors have been civilized
and Christians for three hundred years; that the o. -Chrsian population
according to the census of 1918. is only 100000.
Another fancy is that OF until the coming of the Americans were school
buildings seen N the islands, roads built or substantial houses erected. Do
you know that for hundreds o years the Fihpnos have had colleges and
schools, and that the University IF santo Tomas is only twenty-five years
older than Harvard? That IS early as 1866, gu o a population of 10000 o
people, there were S41 schools for boys and S33 for grls? That in 1902
eight years before the coming of the Americans, there were 217 schools?
TO grant self-government to Luzon under Aguinaldo would be like
Saanne over 10 an Apache ervat under some local chief"
Thus spoke a former President of the United States during the Fuipino-
of the American people demanded the extinction of Filipino opposition; but
do you know that the Philippine republic before the American occupation
spot like John Barrett, director of the PanAmerhan Union. W comnared
it favorably with the Japanese government?
That Admiral Dewey considered the Ffnpinos better fitted fol- self-goy-
eminent than the Cubans?
That they had drafted a constitution at MaloOs which elected the an
prevail of distinguished republicans like he late Senator George F. Hoar?
That before the coming of the Americans they had produced national
heroes tx TN maryIed lose Rial who had been proclaimed by a Aus
tran writer, Ferdinand Bumentritt, as the creates mn the Malava race
las produced pronounced by a republican Congressman. REPRESENTATIVE
Cooper as the noblest victim that has ever fallen into the clutches of
tyranny?
Possibly the geographical situation of the Pbilnnines had sonathno 10
do with the fanctul estimate of the ST. Louis lady. The Phuippines are inst
next door to Borneo, where scientists have hunted in vain for Darwins Miss
"a IN between ue monkey and the supermonkey. They are close II Law
where the small country of Holland has ruled for hundreds O Years through
a system OF native princes and royal families STEPPED in mediaeyal ideas O
government
Farther east is India With her teeming millions divided nm into scores
OF native states and by almost impossible caste barriers. But do ron know
that the Ffipinos have not had for hundreds of years N caste system blood
distinction, n royal families; and that, unlike their Oriental sisters. thew
are the only Christian people in the Orient?
People have pictured a n ignorant mas of FIipinos, iIHterate. boo living
a life OF servtude for a few wealthy landowners and foreigners with no
houses farms n property of their own. Do you know that 70 per cent
of the people above ten years of age car rad and write and that this nor
That it is higher than in n country of South America, higher than the
lteracy of the Spanish people, and unquesionaby above tina of anv of the
ley countries recognized in Europe?
Do you know that there arr a million N a half farms in the pbfunnne
N ia 30 per cen OF these farms are owned by Fflpnos? In other words
that out of the 100000 Christian Fiipnos. 100000 of them at least live
ON their OWN farms, with houses Of their own. depende of anu ah.on..
landlord o r foreign master
That 81 per cent of the urban property, consisting of houses and land
is owned by natives o. the Philippines. and only 8 per cen is in thu hands
of foreigners?
Yet these are facts which have just been cabled by Acting Goverpor
General Charles Emmett Yeater % the War Department from the recent
census estimates.
The Philippine legislature recently sen a special mission IN tho Tnitaa
States to request the fulhnnent Of Americas promise to grant independence
autonomy-the establishment of a stable government-is already fulfilled
Their representations re Endorsed in every particular by Francis Burton
Harrison, who has been the American governor general in the Phfippines
for sx years, and is in a position to speak from actual observation.
by temperament, by experience. by financial ability" ys Governor
Harrison. in every way the ter millions of Fnipnos are entitled to be free
from every government except of their " choice. They are inteuipant
enough to decide tor themselves"
Looks sort of fraternaL. somehow. to see LIE FrancoCalfonien (f San
FTancscol speaking Of foncle Sam