| Show J J I fl ML A n Region gIOn tit Immense Immen Timber rIm bel Sugar FRED GRANS U IN I THE P III Ir iii and hies About boUt the People and TI Tb Ir The and Their Th lr I sj Among the N or Undo Same they d LI Live In the Tre top and Shoot With Poisoned Arrows lie Ile Sonic of His llis Queer Experiences In Campaigning in AVord A About Otis bits and hits JIls Condu Conduct t of the I Grant Orant Not n a Candidate for tor the VIce Nomina Nominal f I N Northern or tl J rn L Luzon ilea t l D j ji I 1 jy y 4 Y RANK G 1 i Copyrighted 1100 b by a Carpon i t tor r 2 1000 I wet Olin On Fred today ns as he f came In from the tho IRI 1 to with about In north wt ant Lauon l tbt on had n a chat with him about his work and the 1 pro pie among whom he hall been cam eatn Orant came camo hero here After lUer leaving Puerto I 1 sn saw him at Ponce lonee laving tray trav traveled Bled with him from San Juan Ground the island He Took looka today the thu picture ot of health and he tull tolia mu that he has been lleen well ever sin since he came cume to the lie line been In the field neld and un on the firing line cline last July I and aUlI has haa been campaigning In both tile the northern and parts of at Luzon GEN OEN IA TON AND TIm TILE FILl FILI FILIPINOS PINOS OUr first words wore wurt about Gen Oen Genf f Lawton whose bialy by the time lino this thie letter Is 18 will have hlo been licen In Inv i In thu th United StAtes Salt Gen Oen fl Grant Orant Till The death of Oon Gan was Willi 1 a great lose to the army and I believe It H was also a great glent Iou Ions to ho Filipino Oon Oen Lawton was their friend although lie fought them to tM the deaths lie He was and generous generou and ho he often otten cautioned me that I should be careful In my tre treatment ot of the peo people lie wanted tile the wrongdoers and the tho rebels but In hr such Cuch a WilY way that the natives hero might realize that the government was lust Juat and You Y u were not hat near General Lawton nt at the time ot of hIs deAth were you general I 1 No I In th the mountains ot of the tho berth bOrth lie Ifs wee was killed d at San Marco within a short distance of Ile t was do the front and nud was IS as pay paying ing no attention to the bullets hying him It has seemed to me inti that he was not careful enough In luch euch matters lie enjoyed the tho action ot of lint bat battie tie and was anxious to push the war warto warto to n a finish lie thought It was almost ended and had advocated the Increase ot of tM the army that peace might come lust jut ns as soon ns as pOI AMONG AMONO TilE GS GSTell Tell mo me something general g about the tho people whom you have been You mean the I suppose replied G General There are arl you know many different races hero with different The tire ure the strongest race tn In Luzon and th they y are the tho most ot of the all III limos They make up the greater grenter of the tho population ot of Manila and there mUst nt at least n a million and 1 a halt half ot of them on this island They Thoy are the richest ot of the natives and the they occupy the beat lands about the holdings of at lands here general I Nava hlo thought the es estates tales tates were nil all small That Is so ot of nearly nil all the tho proper property held by the natives replied General Grant Orant There Thero are come Ome large estates I i which belong to the church and to for tor There are acme Bome nisI also which be belong belong long to the mestizo the d descendants ot of n natives Ues ho have Intermarried with foreigners Give Ovo mo me some lome Idea ot of the General Grant said I liar how do the they look The are much like the Iho Ma Malays lays tn in appearance replied General Grunt fh have about the same features and many of at the came char They arc I believe n a cross betwEen the Malays nail the aborigines They are a 0 cleanly both as to their persons and hOUS houses 8 They are not so BO well educated us as I had supposed d deon eon their churches and other advantages I have found In fact very u little education outside ot of Manila and am to rent dy this by schools wherever I RO go ROAM AM TIE lIo flow can An sou OU do this I asked I thoUght the whole Island was In Q a state of 01 war It Is done dono wherever we Ve have hae driven out the Insurgents and have held the country for any length of at time What I have done us as soon as I have taken possession ot of n a municipality was to give ge Its Ito people n a civil government Q a police and schools I would cn call the principal citizens and tell them I wanted them to rn manage their affairs hereafter for tor I 1 would have them choose an alcalde or presidente who should hould govern thorn them as 8 thE head man of the town and ni point und under him who should be the heads ot of th the divisions ot of the them m A municipality h here re In eludes Moro than the town itself It Is isa a 0 You might compare It to one ot of our counties and antl the In It to the ton townships The president Is the head ot of the whole and the are the tho h heads dH ot of the townships After Af er these men have been they In meet t In council and pass pall ordinances us to taxes revenues and time g general government of It the The They appoint the tho pollee and collect the tho taxes S on tn meats n Is markets etc They issue INUI nil all licenses and In feel fact govern the town How do 10 the people like It They Th say MY they are with It end and they thoy take hold of at It It is 18 Very ery lined however to make them l that the bulk of 01 tb the taxes should not be over to us liS The Spaniards have so 10 ac them to and ex that they CAnnot realize that we ste Ge ao not want ant to do as 04 they did Stull I am well pleased oo with the tee rev Grant went on In Ull ha coot for instance hero her there are H 14 Horo oro people In the I lIh n a civil government In July and schools to In and October The Tho latter are doln doing very ery well and the pee leo pie Ille seem to be well d with the of th their lr government They al appear to be grateful tul and J I think I he have persuaded then them tint we are their friends rather than their enemies Do you ou really think general I asked that they can be made malle good American citizens Not at once was the generals re rev pI ply but I ballove we can Americanize them much sooner than flan our p people think You must inUIt remember that this country has hall for years been overrun with a large daze ot of brigands and thieves wh who have intimidated the peo lIeo pie and n l It will be some time before they can bo taught reif and independence nce of thought We 0 shall first have hILY to wipe out the tho theet es show the people that they have rights and that vve 8 Intend to Irot protect ct them In the tho exercise ot of them pI Des you ou eVer hear henr the tho people express regret that the tho Spaniards have been driven out Ne ND I think the natives were Glad to see se the go 10 AMONG AMONO TilE NE NEGRITOS GRITOS Tell me something ot of the Negritos general I suppose you OU mot with some somo ot of them while In the north Yes I did replied Grant Orant You see Boe them In the Tn Tag towns ot of the Interior They live In th the woO woods and usually In the noun moun tarns I carne CIUllO across a number ot of their little villages In crossing the mountains luring during my last camp campaign when I was chasing Thy They are aro savages i and their are aro usually lit littie lit littie tie mote naoto than hamlets They build 1 theIr houses In amon among the trees rats Ing them art the ground Oil on 1101 poles and I 1 saw paw many houses built high up In the tho branches ot of the trees The Thu houses are hum hula made of poles with walls and roofs ot of Cry ss and palm leaves Tho They take the palm leaves which are long and wi wide do and Platt them with the mountain grasses 11 sel The Tho grass In that part ot of the country grows from six to ten feel teet high It often otten reached above m my head while I was riding through It iton on horseback It is III yer very stron strong and with Ith the tho palm Vilim leaves It can lie be woven oven Into Inlo n a very ery close mat As 8 Wl we carne came to th these I villages the thep p ople scampered red away like so many monkeys Th They were afraid of at us and usually hid themselves behind tl trees es or orrock rocks rock peering out at us Ul and ready rendy to torun run tun It if we e showed any Intention or of corn com corning ing near them Some of at the men melt were armed with bows and arrows and we had been warned that their arrows are pO poisoned The They did not attack u us and we did not bother them OUR DWARFS What kind ot of looking people the Negritos general I asked They are area I Ia a race ot of dwarfed negroes re replied General Grant The word negrito means lIttle negro The Negritos we saw lIaw In but to few cases came up to my shoulder and some were pigmies In size Th They have woolly hair which stands oUt In curly lurly ma masses se over their heads as black IlS as those thole of the African thick lips and flat noses nOBe Most ot of them were III ht breech clothe the tho women wearing a strip about two feet teet long about the thighs and waist Bath oth sexes are puny and sickly looking They have havo enormous atom ache made so b by their living almost en entirely on roots vegetables t and traits The Tho stomachs reminded me or of the banana stomachs of the peasant ehll dren of Porto Will WI ve have any trouble In con them themi 7 I see no reason wh why we should both or er with theta them nt at all replied the gen general eral They The are comparatively few tew and andare are ro FO weak mentally and physically that It would to make Amr Amer Amerlean lean out of oC them They are near nearer nearer er to the than the Amen merl can enn Indian In the scale ot of possible civil All they would need would be bea n a email r and It If well treated they would bother nobody flow about the I dont kno know much about them said Gen Oen GrAnt They aro In the north pert of t Luzon My corr r lug Ing has been beon chiefly chien In the south and northwest are I urn told en nt from the Negritos and savage firs a fine race IN LUZON What kind of n country did you ou find In northwestern Luzon general The or of Luzon is IR n a land ot of mountains mountain and valleys The northern part le Is trade made up ot of ranges rangos ot of mountains with fertile nile valleys helwe between n them The valleys are usually well cultivated be lag Ing covered with rice fields and sugar plantations Some ot of the mountains are nrc tremendous They Jh rise up from the sea Sla In piat es sometimes reaching an 1111 altitude of It five or six she thousand feet They nr of volcanic origin and the sides ot of many mally ot of them are with I lava In some sections there thero le Is n a thIn strata ot of limestone over oyer the lava thIs forth n hollow ns you over over It on horseback and and I I times my horse might break bleak through m The most or of the regions are covered with a dense Ilene growth or of vegetation and those thoo which have any depth or of coil Ire are heavily timbered I 1 east INI hinge lorle tracts of it magnificent trees including many varieties ot of valuable hard woods I 1 sin saw houses and furni tune ture made ot of th the wood It Is s In man many oozes all as hard n as Iron and It takes take ij ay polish like mahogany any I cant tell YOu the varieties You must most remember that I 1 vas VIlS more interested In watching out for tor the angry Filipinos who might be hid behind the tr trees es with their guns than as to how holY the trees would cut UP fur for lumber J I could see In passing that the lire timber is II ot of immense value About bay for tor instance there thero nrc thou sonde of at acres of virgin tot forest t which have hare never neer been lieen touched This timber 1 Is easily got ot nt al for Cor the bay will nIl ad nut mil the largest They mIght In tart fart sail all Into It upside down it if such sucha 1 a thing were pOI possible I and ond their masts would not graze the bottom It I is I Iam Iam am told about 1900 1300 feet teet deep and amI a great depth le III found even oen at the shore shoreline line The Oregon had to put lut out about fitly filly fathoms ot of chain when It come came to anchor at Q a swimming distance ot of the theland land The Spaniards appreciated the value ot of this timber continued Gen Oen Grant Orant and wore were mn matting Ing arrangements to get It out to use In shipbuilding at the time the war wor he began an They ha have graded n a lit hit littie hittie tie railroad up one ot of tM the and the rails lie beside the track ready reddy to be laId There Thel I is I should sa say about three or tour four miles of this roadbed I should 1 think the timber would offer some opportunities for tor American capital said J 1 The trees could be easily got gol down downto to the tho little rivers and Into ba bay tram from where they could be shipped to tonny any part ot of the world Row lIow about the other parts paris of the tho COUll country try What are the tho chances for tor agricultural development In some Bome sections they are very fry gooI The product of at rice and sugar Bugar could be largely increased with scientific tion The sugar lands Janda cnn can be made to yield a 11 larger product pl per r acre and with good maeh machinery ner more Inore sugar could be got out ot of the tho cane ane A number ot of modern sugar ugar mills milia might be tithed here to grind cane canu for tor the small planter Th They could pay fillY the people as al much for tor the th cane eane as they now nos get from Crom raising and grinding It and still make II a big profit oft orr the Increase In n the product There Is more good gool land hero here than is generally supposed I 1 went over overa a 11 low pus pass In the tho mountains north ot of bay and found myself In Il a thriving Ing agricultural valley alley Inhabited by about people It was from twenty to thirty miles wide having a rich soil soli and luxuriant crops There Is 18 n a great deal ot of rice and many cocoanut groves grov The people raise water buffaloes chick chickens chickens ens and pigs There are many such valleys In Luzon and also much unde undeveloped undeveloped country There Is really no I book which gives on an adequate Idea Ideo of time the Philippines Much of at the country still awaits the advent ot of the prosper tor torno no about mines I asked I cannot tell you It Is said that there are large deposits of at coal and some omo gold KOld Jut but so 10 tar far 1 have seen none The chief minerals are found on some of the tho other islands TIlE ES AS POSSIBLE STATES OF TIIE UNION Do you think general that the Islands are worth what they are cost costIng costIng Ing us usI I think so 10 anti and even cen were they not I 1 Ido do not see how the United States could have taken any Rny other course It If after matters are lI settled the Filipinos want to lie be treed freed from the United States It becomes n a question which the people at home cnn can decide At present they have fired on the ling flag ot of our coUn coUntry country try and we cannot tolerate that OUt Our honor demands that we have hae havethe the arrangement of at the tho matter to our own satisfaction Personally I think the people will loon coon become loyal and Contented I believe belloe they will In time govern ov rn them themselves selves ns as II a part ot of our own people and that one or lr two States can be added to the Union from the Philip Philippines pines with as 1001 citizens all as tho those of an any ot of the States we made from the territory which we got from Mexico There are from eight to ten millions ot of consumers h here re and the Islands will furnish n a good market They will be n a base bORO from which WI we can push our commercial comm relations with China and the r rest t of If the Far East Enst These I islands 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