Show SOME mi FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT THE there has been much misrepresentation sen tation in america about people and conditions by MAXIMO M KALAW secretary of the philippine mission A certain lady indy at the st louis exposition saw at a ballroom a b brown r 0 w n complex toned boned man in faultless evening dress aress and accosted him A with the inquiry 1 I suppose you are arc japanese sir air 1 the man addressed replied no madam then you must be chinese she said bald maximo M kalaw no I 1 am not I 1 am a filipino he replied hows that asked the lady 1 I thought they were all savages living in the woods well ill tell you how I 1 came here he be said A month before I 1 left tile philipp philippines ines I 1 was living in the woods litt the american governor decided to catch as many wild men as possible train them and send them over ove r here so here I 1 am just as you see anil and the st SL louis lady actually believed him that Is what you would call fancies about the philippines the tact fact Is s however that the filipinos and their ancestors have been civilized ind and christians for years that the non bon christian population according to the census of Is only aud and ven even these are not all uncivilized another fancy Is that not until the coming of the americans were school buildings s seen in the islands roads built or r substantial houses erected do you know that for hundreds of years rears the filipinos have had colleges ind nd schools and that the university of santo tomas Is only twenty five years tilder dider than harvard that as early as 1866 out of 0 a population of 00 people there were schools tor for boys and tor for girls that in 1892 eight years ears before use the coming of the americans there were 2137 schools to grant self belt gove government to luzon under aguinaldo would be like granting self government to an apache res ovation tion under some local chief thus thug spoke a former President presidente dentt 0 the united states during the filipino american I 1 war exaggeration could be an excuse it at a time alien the dignity of the am people the ex q df at F opposition but do dj ap apu U know I 1 that the philippine republic i before american occupation of the islands biad te app roMil of prominent americans ho were on the spot like ilke john bisirri it t DiCeL direktor Di reitor tOl of the pan american t HI alio iio d it favorably with will ilu naj that ad ni u iii e cs cona 0 arird 1 l tile lie amter iwed for s sif sf if government overn ment than lie ia t C I 1 i is alini tiit N biad drafted a u ion 11 ll at h goeb enc elicited itei ill he oa albro ta 1 if f till di tino anguished ingui shed icons ns like tile the lite late senator george F boar that before the coming coining of the amei leans they had produced national heroes like the martyred marty red jose rizal pronounced by a republican con congressman ress represent representative active cooper RS as tile the noblest victim that has ever fallen into the lie clutches of tyranny and do you know that tile the filipinos lill pinos have not dot had for hundreds of years any caste system blood distinction or royal families and that unlike the their ir oriental sisters they are the only christian people in the orient people have pictured an ignorant mass of filipinos illiterate poor living a life of servitude tor for a few wealthy land owners and foreigners with no houses or farms or property of their own do you linow know that TO 70 per cent of the people above ten years 1 of age can read and write and that abi this percentage of literacy is almost as high as some of the states ot of the union that it is 1119 higher her than in any country of south america higher than the lit beracy of the spanish people and unquestionably above that of any of the I 1 new countries lecog recognized nihed in europe 1 do you know that there are a million and a halt half farms in the philippines and that 98 96 per cent of 0 these farms are owned by filipinos in other words that out of the christian cb F jil pinos ot of them at least live on OB their own farms bilth a ath houses bouses of 0 their own independent of any absentee landlord or foreign master that 91 per cent of the urban property con of houses and lands Is owned by the natives of the philippines and only 9 per cent Is in the hands of foreigners yet these there are facts cabled by acting governor charles emmett yea ter ler to t the war department from the census estimates having solemnly promised the fill alios pt los their independence and having sone gone before the world as is t the he champion of self determination the filipino people 1 ie cannot understand how america van ean consistently refuse to make good these promises |