Show o 0 OF tEa I THE ifE RECENTLY completed c of L the tIIe Philippine islands would weaN seem to show dhow ow that u the Ute Filipinos are being civilised at the rate of about bout 1 MM a ar year r At least fart I there r are taste some st eo less Leas Filipinos now 0 than Ulan there were in to 1900 if U the census ce taken in ill that year Y was waa accurate In Ia the tile census ee bu tu bureau bureau reau gave cave the die population of ot the ands n as 8 The Tile new places the dIe dIet total t tal at T 1 It W f entirely probable le that the 1900 census ceu u was inaccurate I Surely Burely there Is to no satisfactory manner of accounting for foe the decrease on any anT other oUter theory j True since ince Its 1 there t has been bee there mere or toss less cholera In III the alae Philippines J and lid our oak fighting ting m main t Lave have tined killed a great many of them but l ut cholera and our I troops have not killed Filipinos FIlipino leaving out of ot the to question que ti n the natural and Dd normal Increase that might have ve been expected The n Tb new De ce shown how 11 some ere ig Ida In Jn th try arat first place it gives the names DameS of MS I 43 separate and distinct islands in the tM archipelago In addition there are numerous others though t h mainly mere dots of mad land that are without names The largest as well welt as the Use most meat pop populous ta lh ulous island Inland to Is Luzon Luson on which hi Is Located lo located located the city cUy of Mantis Manila Lenart has a population of almost half bail the tM total population n of the entire archipelago archi pelago Something like UtIe 8 per cent or H of at the natives native of are classified cJu as wild That to Is ill they do donot donot donot not recognise the authority of the United States State and nd they th y have attained no degree decree of The Wand island of Panay contains of whom wheat 14 are wild Ud Cebu has baa aU ail and nd Mindanao comes coma fourth fourt with 49 II 04 of whom considerably mote more than halt half are uncivilised The province 0 of to has hM erg a es smaller siaM Jer Ir proportion of uncivilised na natives natives tives than t any of at the stands islands Only ODly 2313 zm out of profess prof any y degree depee of o civilisation Job Jolo oJo has bas out of which 1270 are wild Ud The city of Ma Ka Manila Manila nila has haa a population of 21 Ut of whom a large percentage are of for tor foreign eign elan birth berth A summary of the tile shows that only about tt 9 t per er cent of the total population are Ue uncivilised or wild if the terms teems are synonymous However it Is to probable pr that ui the t e ac actual actual l t percentage of uncivilised to s very ve much greater peater than this L And AAd among other things thiD that go 0 19 tp strengthen this to the te fact fa that Ul t the tM right of ot trial by Jury bas haa been denied to the Filipinos Filipino If It 91 it 1 per er cent of them were wen such a radical step as the tile denial of the right of Jury trial would hardly nUy have been en necessary |