Show MEAT WAS AT PER POUND MIlItAry Acton Action In Re Reduced i It to 60 Cents Cent II OJ OF C in hi 1 hil of Llo 1111 IBI Early 11 hUlls Apri April ot of otti ti tb Manila 11 edi editO tO tb the correspondents of lel here hen a are hoping that t the 1 ot or the civi civil commission wih result In a reform of the present cn cia I Cablegrams ins ap appointment of t the commission were lt r b by two o of tb the Mani Manila I newspapers bt but tb the el censor foad forbade them to print this nw news Ue lie Ia Iatt ban as tt that b be suppresses 0 only that M news inimical to tb he IntI interests or of tb the military fricton friction r between t the ad and th the previous clor censor wili while the 1 uranA commission was u here ove over me messages to the commission ad and there was Wa sometime much trouble In gettIng through nw news the commission h had gIvEn out for publIcation Th The editor ot of tb the lol papers cm corn hd and unanimously that te the u a It I is managed inflicts up PD them wholly boly needless bahl hardships and nd greater loss The Th only Filipino Piper lr which supported the AmerIcan administration ba has suspended public publIcs teu lion on account of tb the censorship and th thi of the oldest and 14 mot most roe and nd friend friendly I journal that I it Intends Intend to clOe close It Its buiL as and leave Manila bW because It I is to a newspaper un In d the restrictions Imp imposed by br the present government Th The etor edItors alue argue tbt that U the lion o of newspapers which support the gove policy a as 1 of te the Ma Mania nia ails do is an enterprise that should b be encouraged rather than boo ha raised that they p pay almost lve tive tate a to lurt secure cablegrams that they are rt ared served b by reputable and eon con prel press agencIes ent and that own Inte interest lead Id them to In their correspondents not lIot to way away money mony on cablegrams rr wc which could not b be They ae at U that no correspondent could pal sibly r Ib foresee that such uch nw a as labor p strikes trl 0 or the appointment of a sloe Ion to the Philippines woul would be erd ered Inimical tl tu the interests ot of th the government and that the nw new which comes come tl to th them I Is not sup suppressed up pressed but t melly merely postponed belau the FilIpinos relve receive th the Inia leading news newspapers papers tm from tb the United States Itte aD and red read tem them wit with the greatest care cre creT T The Americana are r Jut just beginning to realise that in the island of Mindanao until Jent recently merely a bl big bt blot o on tie tiem the m map they bae have a wonderful empire pOtentially tb the m most t 1 eli elithe al the Philippine Although nearly I as larr large an inland is LIn Luson with a much better clImate hd and capable ot of bein made a second Cub Cubs In rm corn mercial value the Spaniards never really I controlled nor even explored I it Tb They lived In ter fear or of the n na and aad frittered awa away enough Ive lives to bY have made tb the conquest or of an em empire empire pire without gaining Plon possession or of more than fringe of coast towns Wih With two 10 the which he Jt recently distributed among mon the towns town on the southern louthern and eastern etera out coast and the Fortieth which he be ha has jut just In tb the north General tt Bates acquired rr for the United Itte Mates I an mue much territory a is held beld and whet Spain never ner could ret get the friendship of all the tribes which the Ibe American ba have VI encountered tempered wih with wholesome me fear Inde Indeed experience with the Kor Mores ot of Ia has convinced many ny of aM cers tre thit the treaty wih with lb the sultan ultan ot of was a a mistake In that tbt I it con O feme UP upon that picturesque person a f fictitious appraisal ot of his importance whIch may be ot of more mon tru truble tent hie ble th than a dlela display ot of the mailed nt flit would have bv been Te They do not think th the Moro loros such terrible warr warriors b agaInst been ter modem ur weapons as te they hv have In 1 some 0 of the mO most Important gain ni IDof soul of Mindanao notably the policy polk h ha been adopted ot of impressing upon the chIef the fact that t the propose to give Ive Ib a Jut it but bUI all alSo em VII very strongly that any a har harm donI done tl the Americans wi will h he followed b by swift l ad bloody punishment The lit lat at any n rte rate I is one that the Ko Moto min mind can grasp n especially n it I ii I by the tell facilities PO fo lt which the ar army Ud and nV navy The e Aerl Ste re convinced th way to 10 deal with Ib the MO 0 ass are at t hurt heart Y nf M the m most will b be t tO jow w them no mercy when once onN tM they become hostile eVen en I if some Inn inca cent 1 liv hl have to 10 b be sacrificed for tor Ih the 11 goad OH M Most nt or of tim In iii tl the MOM Mesa country wih with whom n ol tb the cot r rr r cat of nf the bt Associated P Prep are re that Imf some sort ort of Ml with th she Moron will I In time h be hi To a avoid t I it wi will require 11 11 lm n of th them t think that Is IP Mor More I Is cx o e ilk th Ih American Indian AW ot of dars I tIeu in t the of t a portion f at M Oe nr it II thi 10 iso was a 0 of ti thin thus thU described bP I If It f 6 Officer ar are trios to tn f net along II with I t thee people t without ut a fight bl he sail M hn want a scrap what ws Dd Mr W We af nl II these It pessi ill aU we ea eon when he we get a chance p sad a We aN bun bound to pit t 11 them III stirred an P 1 nl emith of the cla Yo la is In Manila ii fo for a wish lt R reports conditions I in ta the lt nf ag Vf very f fairly i civil hl government be I lu baa bUI there I is p prospering t It f tb the most irful din r ton thin orl tb the nat native tl civil sad II tf b be bt betit t framer of Dt 11 laws I 11 n triton thereof H l d dle tie nips le t the stories toriN that b he discovered a ln a ron hIs hip native II to I th Mn ron In N And that he hod n to Imprison D of h I m mish h tie ha Ih the sf nf Ih the leg ot at I his hl W were v t lb lints In or rp 10 In Ih tite 11 rr of hil his hit 1 pal In Negros 1st 11 a n 1 A lar large pert 0 i thc town nr 1 n on ti the W west roast t f NI hl his d tIe liv bv a of accIdental orIgin 1 Tb N ot 1 comment mOl most favorably on the n tie work rn honc tn nt f th lb Sixth uh Infantry In pr Ing 1 the Pt t h he Within hil th h RI Ics P tAt ha hath th h It price rr of 1 t r In Inthe th the history r I Manila hl has I it b been 1 en Th Tb prIce In Ih the market has baa been fourteen c cents nt a pound for years ar and nd the Amer American len ican government brings beef frosts from Australia and nd sells to the ar arns I loeS today for seven evl rents gold eual equal I I this prIce of f cents cent Mexican It ba bee been dIfficult to 8 at count for tor this excessive price of 1 one local newspaper openly char charged the meat inspector with fraud and show how howIn In meg favoritIsm to crin certain In passing their while thO those ot of other me men wr were refused cle clean bills bUl ot of health Tt This ebar charge resulted In an e cx by the authorities into lato the causes accountable for the high prIces The result tit or this inquIry while ble not proving fraud as originally alleged laud caused the price ot of met meat to drop drof from SUO IO to I cents a pound In 24 hours and nd It if tb the dealers daler lan can obtain tree free entry for tor theIr tc In Into into to Mania Manila It la is stated talf they wi will cor corn pl pete with lh the Ibe local traders and by this method prices will 1 probably b be kept dow down to a proper level |