The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-02-21

No, ] an not
Ts- Filipino. be replied
'Hoos Matr" asked The lady -
though 'hey were All ss,sges living 10
tbe moods
We'll. IN tell you how came here,
Ls ssld \ month before left the
Philippines Was living Ia the woods
Bat The American Governor decided 10
catch as many Wild men ss possible,
train them and send them over mere
50 here J am, iusi as you see" Ana
the ST. Louis lady actually believed
him
That n what you would call fancles
about the Philippines The fact In,
however, that the 100000 Fllipinos
and their ancestors h8ye been civilized
and Christians for 300 years that the
non Christian population, according 10
the census of 1913, is only 900 900, and
even these are not all unclviized
Another fancy is that not until the
coming of the Americans were school
buildings seen IN tho Islands, roads
built, or substantial houses erected
DO you know that for hundreds OF
years the tilipinos have had colleges
and schools and that the University OF
Santo Tomns IN only twenty Ave years
older than linryardl That as early as
1860, out Of n population OF 10000
people, there were Sil schools for boys
and b33 for girls1 That In 1882, eight
years before the coming OF the Amcri-
cans there were 2, 1877 schoos1
"'Io grant gelf government TO Luzon
under AguinaldO would be like grant
inr self government to an Apache res
erVation under some local chief" Thus
spoke n former President Of the United
States during the Filipino
war EIHggerntiOn could be an excuse
al n time when tho dignity OF the Am
crican people demanded the eItinc don
OF Filipino opposition, but do you know
that the Philippine Republic, before the
American occupation Of the islnnh,.
had the approval OF prominent Ameri.
cPns who were ON the spot--like John
Barrett Director OF the Pan n-Americnn
Union. who compared II fnvorHbly with
the Japanese government That Ad.
mlral Dewey considered the Filpn0s
b'AA'i HNA'i l'l h'l' HbNFl llull
the Cubansf Tint they had drafted n
constitution at Mnlalos which elected
the approval OF distinguished Repub-
licnns like the late Senator George r..
iourf That before the coming OF the
Americans they had produced national
heroes like the mnrtyred Jose Rial,
pronounced by n Republican congress
ltattTsuAHfutIta fsa.,ar l.
nohirst victim that has ever fallen into
the clutches OF tyranny1
And do you know that the Fillpinos
have not had for hundreds Of years any
caste system, blood distinction or royal
families, and that, unlike their oriental
sisters, they are the only Christian peo-
pie In tho orientr
People have pictured an ignorant
mass Of Filipinos, iii!terate, poor, llv-
ing u life OF servitudc for few
wealthy land owners und foreigners,
with no houses or farms or property
OF their own. DO you know that 20
per cent. OF the people above ten years
OF age can read and write and that this
percentage OF literacy ls almost as high
as some OF the states OF the Union 7
That It ls higher than In any country
OF South Anne ricn, higher than the lit
erncy OF the Spanish people, and un-
queBtionahly above that OF any Of the
new countries recognized In Europe 7
DO you know that there np million
and II half farms In the Philippines
and that 90 per cent OF these farms
are owned by Fillplnos In other words.
that out OF the 100000 Christian
Filipinos, 5000, 600 OF them at least live
on their own farms, with houses OF
their own, Independent OF any absentee
landlord or foreign master1 That 0l
per cent OF the urban property con
sisting OF houses and lands In owned
by the natives Of tho Philippines, and
only . per cent Is In the hands OF for
elgners1 Yet these are Facts cabed by
Acting Governor Charles Emmett Yea.
ter TO the War Department from the
recent census estimates
Having solemnly promised the FIJI.
pi1os their Independence and having
zone before the world as the champion
~ self-dsterminntion, the Filipino Deo.
pie cannot understand how America
can consistently refuse TO mako good
'hese promises,
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