Show AMERICAN MERCHANTS NEGLECT PHiliPPINES New ew York Jan M r Moil Moir judge or of the court or of fIrst Instance ill In Inthe the tho Philippines who Is 1 On n a visit to thIs country after atter an absence of five years said ald here yesterday ln in all an Interview that American m are neglecting ex cx opportunities for business in inthe tIme the archIpelago He declared it lament lamentable lamentable able that wIth the Islands entirely paci tied lIed n a general system of railroads s In course of construction and the rich re resources resources sources ot of our far eastern possession be beIng beIng Ing wen well developed time the business meno menothe of the United States as a Whole are pay payIng paying Ing virtually no attention to what will Villi be beIn beIn In time the course of time one of the great In Industrial Industrial marJ markets ets ot of the world worl There are few Americans In thE Phil Philippines In business now except thos en engaged engaged in the work said Judge Moll This project W was S begun lately andis and andIs Is rapidly being pushed forward so that It has already given a great impetus to general conditions The s system Stem will wiil con connect fleet nil aU the tho principal Islands from Luzon on the north to the on the south With those lines Jines finished the proposed agricultural bank established there will willbe m be nothing wanting toward the thc prosperity or of the Philippines and we ot of the United States will find that we v drove droYe n a good goo then we took them ver 0 J |