Show TRADE OF MANIA MANILI COMING THIS WAY AY Americans Profit by Islands Business Boom oom B BURNHAM PLAN i 8 SAVAGES DISGRUNTLED BUT B T EVERYBODY DY ELSE CONTENTED CONTENTED New N York April 3 Arisen Burlingame Burling me who lc was was United States consul cOI sul Amoy China during the Span Sp n ISbA war and arid who afterward was instrumental Ins in ln starting the electric traction company in Manila and is now flow interested In that the exportation of ma m Z and several other lines of bus bURI busness b si siness ness out there has arrived at the Im penal from the Philippines He says bust busi ness is good in the Islands and that the number of American residents is ing Capital Is coming in more readily he ho said yesterday The city of Manila when it was taken over oer by the Americans was was purely Spanish In all Its social customs in marked contrast to most of ot the ports of that part of the Orient Today Manila ManUa Is like Uke an American city in customs and styles though the tha latter are modified to suit tropical climate The American tour who reaches Manila nowadays after an Oriental tour feels as If he had reached reach d home The English and Germans who thava have always had heavy Interests there are not increasing either In numbers or in Business The Americans are ing in both What about the Filipino merchants That question Mr Johnson replied with a chuckle reminds me of or the order I once got from the state department for fora a report on the public roads of China I 1 had to reply There are none It Is the same way about Filipino merchants The Filipinos do not constitute a mercantile class in the islands In Manila all the leading establishments are owned and con controlled con controlled controlled trolled by Europeans E Americans or or Chi Chinese Reset nese All AU over the Islands In the hundreds of prosperous little communities the merchants are Chinese The wealthy w Fili Fill Filipinos FilIpinos pinos are either elther eith r planters or are real estate owners in the cities Now and then you find one engaged in some line of or ship shipping shipping ping There is no trouble In the Islands so 50 far as this government Is concerned and there been any for some time be tween the Filipinos and the Americans Those little matters that are cabled back here hero do not take place among the civilized millions of Filipinos but among anong the few thousands who composed the savage tribes Politically they have no meaning Still there never will be a time I Imagine when Oriental people embrace embra e with open arms the rule of any western government It will be remembered that just prior to the granting of free tree trade between the Philippines and the United States ef efforts f forts were made by the Filipino assembly and by many leading Filipinos to defeat the free trade movement They Th Y were clever enough to know that If free frel trade was granted and prosperity to the small farmers and imd the masses they would lose their power as agitators The American element In the Philippine gov government government government ignored their protest The result was that immediately fol following following following lowing the passage of the law the islands began to enjoy a state of prosperity such as the agitators have been unable to check The little farmers are doubling their acreage and incidentally are getting even with their assemblymen and political agitators who induced them to join in inthe Inthe inthe the protest All of which goes to show that the element which opposes American rule Is s svery very small but probably It will always ex exist exIst 1st and keep In the public eye while the mass of people simply wish to be left alone As for the savages In the remote Islands Islands ands and practically nothing has been done with them Probably no inroads upon their savagery will be made for genera generations generations It is not worth the effort Such efforts may be Interesting from an anthro anthropological anthropological anthropological standpoint but the savages of ot the outer Islands are lazy and diseased removed only by an almost imperceptible stage from the lower animals Manila is becoming one of the most beautiful cities clUes in the Orient All AU the pub public public lic lie buildings are being fashioned accord accordIng according Ing to the general scheme laid out by Burnham of Chicago Including a million peso hotel now under construction which is to be the finest In the east enst Manila never appeared to be attractive ivo to the tourist until recently and it was largely due to the lack of good hotels The lumber business is becoming one of the leading industries We ship ma mahogany mahogany mahogany all the way to New York but out the curious thing is that though we havo to send it mites away way a we have to sell seU It for or less than Cuban mahogany brings The Philippines ought to be an object Jesson for some of our citizens Mr Johnson added Although we have hove a country of or sJ people who hp are governed by a handful of ot Americans from all parts of the United States yet yat yatIn in ten mrs of occupation under most try tnt tryIng Ing circumstances there has never been beena a charge of conspiracy to graft It Is true that here hero and there indi individuals have gone wrong but those are re remarkably remarkably remarkably few On the granting of a franchise or the tha awarding of a contract for a big public enterprise the officers of the tho government stand st 1 without suspicion |