The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-05-13
And FaRCiies
About the Philippines
(By Maxine M. Kaiav, Secretary OF
the Philippine Mission)

WASHINGTON, May IA GER
tain lady at the st. Louis Exposition
saw at ball room brown complex
toned man In evening dress, and ac-
costed him with the inquiry Il sup
pose you are Japanese. sir?"
The man addressed replied. mo.
madam"
Then you must be Chinese" she
said.
mo. am not, am Filipino, he
replied.
"Hows that?" asked the lady. I
thought they were all savages living
in the woods"
Well, I'll tell you how 1 came
here" he said. "A month before /
left the Philippines was living in
the woods. but the American COVER
nor decided to catche as many wild
men as possible. train them and send
them over here. SO the American
forces were Immediately set in mo-
ton, we were taken from the woods
and kept for a month at the COVER
nor's palace. taught how to dress
and speak little English and then
sent over here. So here ! am, Just
as You see. Ad the st. Louis lady
actually believed him.
That is what you would call fancies
about the Philippines, Thefact is,
however, that the 10000 Filipinos
and their ancestors have been civil
lied and Christians sfof three nun
dred years; that the non-christian,
population. according to the census
OF 1918 is only 100000. ~ y
Another fancy is that not until the
coming of the Americans were school
school buildings seen in the islands.
roads built, or substantial houses err
ected. Do you know that for hun
dreds of years the Filipinos have had
colleges and schools, aud that the
University of Santo Tomas IL only Is
years older than Harvard? That as
early as 1856. out';of population Of
100000 people. theer were ,S41
schools for boys and S33 for girls?
That in 1892 eight years before the
coming Of the Americans. there were
2,137 schools?
ITO grant self government to Luz
con under Aguinaldo would be like
granting self government to an Apa-
che reservation under some local
lchief." Thus spoke a former presi-
Ident OF the United States during the
Filipino American war. Exaggeration
could be an excuse ut time when
the dignity of the American people
demanded the extinction of Filipino
Opposition; but do you know that the
Philippine Republic, before the Am
lerican occupation of the islands, had
the approval of prominent Americans
who were on the spot, like John Bar
rett, director of the Pan American
Union, who compared 1t favrably
with the Japanese government? That
Admiral Dewey considered the Fill
pinos better fitted for self govern
ment than the Cubans? That they
had drafted constitution Malolos
which elieied the approval of dis
tinguished Republicans like the late
Senator George F.. Hoar? That be-
fore the coming OF the Americans
they had produced national heroes
like the martyred Jose Rial, who
has been proclaimed by an Austrian
writer, Ferdinand Blumentritt. as
the greatest man the Malayan race
has produced and pronounced by a
Republican congressman. Representa-
tive Cooper, as the noblest victim
that has ever fallen into the clutches
OF tyranny?
! Possibly the geographical situation
of the Philippines had something to
do with the fanoiful estimate the st.
Louis lady had. The Philippines are
just next door TO Borneo, where sci
entists have hunted in vain for Oar