Show innnnnwuintAnnumAJUinnnnAruuunnnnnriJuuutr = HEAVY TAX ON LABOR Manila Conditions Described by Eliza Arclinrd Conner Handicap to Business Sueeou pte I its Bxorbltnnt Taxation nnd Tea Systems Still In Porco In the Phil Ipplnot Tho nigld Military noglma Amarlcnn Tonoliors for the Nntlvai Needed In Manila e iiuurmnruuuvvuinnuuuuuinuuuu Manila June L There Is I one serious handicap that If I Irksome and annoying lo the free American who would ei Plait himself here and that Is I the lax on all kinds of labor I Under the Brian tell rule every human being was fined for wanting to work Every mechanic and peilller down to the old woman ho sells peanuts on the streets was obliged to pay the Spanish government a Rood round sum yearly for the privilege privi-lege I of doing so This was collected tat h three months In advance regularly and Inexorably Wbn the Americana got possession file Iniquitous system was continued ireclsely as It had been maintained The poor natives saw they were appar costly no btttr oft condor American masters that Hey ha > been under Brain Ith Ones II may well bo said that this I very thing had Its share In edging 1 on uuiruvuvuumnruinnruuwiAiA tnu fiberAllittly necessary and whore It Is ad mlollltd as wordir AI possible to nol may or convenient 10 live under AI nh IN I AI oor AI neaten now AM I the severity oC the soldiers rule might wn be relaxed sonitwhaL Thor is I not a I better or concert room or even a rhureh open In the evening one cannot hate a social iimrinvt his hall In the evening If his filends hve to ito homo mo than half a block away goTire ordr Is I that all must be Inloors fear I oclock and all who are not are cohiallenored r ana oftentimes sent la the calaboose aM not day fired I myself have been halted twice One evening some gubeen rm 10 our house unOlPltdl y tor din her and the supply DC Vreadgav out A Walter was sent a block awsy lo Iris So k err tor some more itll did I not re turn The guard arrested him and took him lo prison and It 1 required the com Jo f = UIUh blned eloquence of three good Americans Ameri-cans Real true one of them a lawyer lo get the poor scared brown man off next day at 4 clock without a fine The 7 clock order was Issued at the time of the Insurrection In February It was necesssry then for Insurrection I I were sneaking from street to street an 1 llempllng to shoot and stab whll rolnT the back and II It their m The order recalls the curfew of William the Conqueror There Is I tertalnir room In MinlH for Americans 10 make tracer The person who shout 1 bring her IIIQo1 Yards of American mosquito netting could do a great stroke of business It he could get It here safe ht know ledge of tin Hpsnlih langusga helps much but Is not absolutely neres angry Many Americans now here iste learning that language with a view to 1 remaining permanently One lawyer coming merely on a tour for his health happened to have a good knowledge I of ih i fH 1 Hittnlih Immediately he wan caught up and put In harness and has found I buslnss so lucrative that he will re main A man from Italian has discovered that one fatal Institution holds all these 1laoa In an nil NPIL That Is the Spanish sluts It has extended Itself till 1 II lasts all day long fsstenlng I both Ppanlsrd and native stupid anl Im movable Like the enchsnted princess he repo e only they are nol sleeping beauties I by any means nol by ollatrer scora Ure Americana are breaking tho iiell of centuries With proper civilise ronvenlenc and development Manila and themes Inlands could I too mad an earthly pars dlse I have aometlin thought It eould bo the beat thins that could hop 111 l for Ihs whole old town to burn dawn as Chicago did so As American Ameri-can ocelot begin over again and buildup It build-up exactly rlcht I Th very markets where food rl I 4 bought 1 art < it H piece with everything elme 1 The main one I centered In n collection of gram hut along the I wig flier In these hut Iho nstlvc live year after year On the tMkirdv whir they Wallace and I sleep rror Put up their winter Cr at 1 tat I er t-at ei withered llltl msngocs lon toctlk chicken and duck eggn Tl e sight and the smells are inough lo make one forswear cannot Chicken not case am more obignolmilit thrus I i r oJo f Nor r thing flee llccauso wo could get notIng not-Ing wise 1 we have devoured 10 many egir and chicken that we can hardly look i ne mother In the face without fcellng a Imposition to crow They Bar the fruit and vegetable t l were better Were the war It Is lo lot hoped I ao Food abundant and delicious li to let I had her i for the raising uj would almost be nisi lo live CO years longer lo sen vhal the American will gotten ot this wonderful and beautiful Ian I A detail ot American sclioolmlslreise shoull So sent here rum Ibo Hlales lo tench the igllsh language pure and slmil The schools maintained ty the Hpanlsh government among the na live rhlllnm have beet I continued by ur authorities for want ot better Nalhe teacher much na they are ire side ur them The Tagslo teacher themselves do not know correctly tire language Ihey 1 prafe but pk 44 001 DC placeigge Ipiu lh which Is I Indescribable It rnut ho fnrmetl altogether and niillsh taught In tie Msnlla schools as It li I In three of tile lUitallim Island It may be mentioned that many Hpantard btre Sonnet Inc a which girlis their bread I a buittilvd are ulouly learninst Hncllh the IAngo50 oC the present and the future IJy the way peskrnff of the Hpanlsh IsJuruags I I ostw that one of the funny paper of the KUitrs ham been making a rhynu on the looms ot the > lllsgo of laransque a bubt Manila II to hrtotrAhr yjnl lea makes qI Ihs I last pr I art rhyme vllh I I cracky which Is I Incorrect Tito Hianlh 1ai Is I Invariably broad like 111 In bard To Illustrate by another rhyme This hlllpplne 1 town 1aranque You progaunce Shot last riot II 1 yncky And I tell fnU Shoo I vologne though Z know you Aill claim That niy rhyi li I uncommonly rocky lLUA AUCIIAIIll LOSN1C1I |