Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-04-29

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E Toned man In fauIt-
less evening dress
and accosted him
with the inquiry,
II suppose you are
"a japanese, sirT"
IL .x1SN The man I'd.
dressed r. piled.
~ mo. madam"
0S<A "Then ron must
j1ssoesnv be Chinese" che
said
~ - mo, am rot
! em . Filipino" 10 replied.
slows thatr asked the LADY. II
0ousht they were oil savagss living u
~ woods"
swsll. ri tell you how came hsre.-
~ said "a month before ] left The
Philippinss was living II the wocda
bot ~ American Governor decided -
catch - many Wild men q possible
train them and send them over here
- hsre ] en-. Just - you go" And
~ q Louis lady actually believsd
him.
That 10 what Jon would call fanciss
about ths Philippinea The fact L.
Aewsvss. hat the 100000 Ttliplnoe
asd thsir ancestors have besn civillsed
Ind Christians for 500 years; that the
oou-C Christian population, according to
tAs census Of 1918, 10 only 10000. and
even these ars not oil unclvilised
Another fancy u that not until tho
coming Of the Americans were school
buildings sssn 10 the Islands, roads
built or substantial houses erected.
Do you know that for hundreds Of
ysars the rillpinos have had colleges
and schools and that the University Of
0anto Tomas d only twenty-five years
older than Harvard That ~ early a.
io06 out Of . population Of 4,000. 900
people. there were 84l schools for boys
and ass for girls1 That In 1902. eight
years before the coming Of the Ameri.
cans, there were 2.l37 schools1
ITO grant self-gove rnment to Lu1on
under Aguinaldo would be like grant.
ting sclf-governmen to an Apache rec.
ervation under some local chief" Thus
spoke former President Of the United
States during the FilipinO-American
war. Exaggeration could be an excuse
ct time when the dignity Of the Am.
erican people demanded the extinction
Of Filipino opposition, bat do you know
that the Philippine Republic, before the
American Occupa ton Of the islands,
had the approval of prominent Amert.
cans who were on the spot--llke John
Barrett. Director Of the Pan-American
Union. who compared Il favorably with
the Japanese governmentf That Ad.
mirai Dewey considered the rilipinos
better lifted for self-government than
the Cubansi That they had drafted a
constitution at Maialos which elected
the approval Of distinguished Repub.
Mcans like the late Senator George r.
H0arf That before the coming Of the
Americans they had produced national
heroes like the martyred Jose Rial
pronounced by q Republican congress
man. Representative Cooper. AZ the
noblest victim that has ever fallen into
the clutches Of tyranny
And do you know that the Filipinol
have not had for hundreds Of years any
caste system, blood distinction or roya
families. and that, unlike their orienta
sisters, they are the only Christian PEG
pie In the orientf
People have pictured an ignoran
mass Of Ftliptnos, illiterate. poor. iiv
ing = life OF servltude for q few
wealthy hand owners and foreigners
with no houses or farms or propert,
Of their own. Do you know that n
per cent Of the people above ten year
oe age can read and write and that TIL
percentage Of literacy 10 almost a. hiyl
~ some Of the states Of the Union
That Il n higher than In any cOuntr.
OF South Anne RIGA. higher than the III
eracy Of the Spanish people. and IN
Questlonahly above that Of any Of tn
new countries recognized In Europe
Do you know that there are a millio
and half farms In the Philippine
and that % per cent Of these farm
are owned by Cilipnos. In other word,
that out Of the ll.o0O.O00 Christla
NstsssVSs OtVSNsV<V VA tAiCtu ~ tc0Nk uN
on their own farms. with houses q
their own. independent Of any absente
landlord or foreign MASTERY That
per cent Of the urban property co,
sisting Of houses and lands 10 owns
BY the natives Of the Philippines. au
only Q per cent u In the hands OF 10
signersi Yet tlsse are facts cabled /
Acting Governor Charles Emmett Ye
ter to the War Department from u
recent census estimateA
Having solemnly promised the n
piaos their Independence and havi,
some before the world ~ the champi,
Of INSTRUMENTATION. the Filipino DC
pie canne1 understand how Ameri
can consistently refuse to make 70.
theoe promise&
CLIMATE or rhg pAlllppiN0