| Show PHILIPPINE LIBERTY DREAM OF FUTURE SAYS BISHOP J i Intelligent ent Natives Opposed 1 ty I to Independence Says L Visitor Fro From Islands DENVER May 9 Millions 9 Millions of dollars worth of copra and hemp which cannot be shipped on account o of a lack of boats in the warehouses of Manila and ether ports of the Philippine Islands ands And war prices which make the high cost of living in the United States look insignificant are are current there according ac according ad- ad I c cording to Bishop C C. II Brent whose Episcopal diocese extends all over the islands Bishop Brent is In Denver visiting his sisters Gasoline co costs ts 50 cents a gallon double the price car owners are bewailing In this country he said Butter Butter Butter But- But ter costs 55 cents a pound In gold and was unobtainable for some time Flour Flours FlourIs I Is 2 for fifty p pounds s There is no fresh and large sums are paid for condensed milk which is shipped in Philippine grass cannot be used to feed mulch cows and regular hay cannot be grown on the islands Other foods particularly canned ones and merchandise sell for the same correspondingly corre corre- high prices t Natives Not Hard Hit I j But with all these high prices and the tying up of commerce and industry T on account of a lack of shipping there t sr Is no suffering among the common commont i t i t people Bishop Brent said Nature Natured is d so kind and life Is so easy In the Islands that hard ti times times' s' s is not a bugbear there 1 A A. native who can strip a few bananas t- t f from a tree cook coole a little rice and lunch and dine satisfactorily j p- p breakfast wi sf is not going t to worry himself over the cis' cis high cost of oC living r It It is rather the moneyed class who t arc are suffering on account of the war It t has has las probably touched the lives of the Common people people people-of of the islands the least yd wI any class of oC people in the world Large factories built within recent oil from the 3 years ears for the removing remo of opra pra or dried cocoanut are unable to torun run w-un because their product cannot annot be hipped r-hipped The hemp is all stripped by 1 hand and it is hard to finance this Jf work worl too There is is- no substitute for Manila hemp in the world so all the thet f raiser has to do is to sit still sun and wait walt t for shipping to open But o of course t this takes capital And those who haven't I v a a surplus must go under Things are areso areso so desperate that some small boats which have been used for traffic are now plying the Pacific carrying carrying carrying car car- out the sugar and hemp and copra cop cop- ra Ill But they scarcely make an impression don sion on the great stores ready to ship is considered Thirty five cents a day r f living wage in the Philippines 1 but hut hut- ut even even with this cheap labor it is impossible impossible im im- 1 possible to produce steadily and not t Independence Not Wanted t Intelligent 1 igent Americans and Filipinos 1 y nuke like do not wish to see the islands given self sel government I have ha lived i fi there for fourteen years ears and 1 am am more more and more moie confirmed In the opinion that we should go slowly I would like to see seethe seethe the United States rule the islands for another fifty years By that time they lt Would be sufficiently educated to be Tready ready for self government One difficulty is that there are seven distinct languages spoken In the Islands X hep there are places like the Island jj of Sulu to civilize The people of the islands are not vicious They are do domestic domestic do- do and industrious Americans to the contrary notwithstanding They are 1 up before the break of or day working In theIr fields They do not nol work in the l heat heal at of the day which is wise The f s schools schools in Manila can cant can't t hold hoid the number number num num- ber tJ L' L of people who wish to attend t Something about self sel government i 1 should be settled at once once The wrong I I f i would be better than this long ig delay which has crippled business j e and been bad for the general morale of offS tl the the people 5 aF t My church has Just started a school oLt i of agriculture a and a hospital In the J x heart of the famous Sultan of Sulus Sulu's gj realm There is much work to be done w 7 there thre The Koran allows four wives jT kr and most of the citizens have that num- num ler er They were converted to Y In the l Fourteenth century 54 f aid and still use twenty letters of ot the Arabic c characters instead of the Roman Roan Roman Ro- Ro man an |
