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Show B It is now proposed to build a railroad the B whole length of the Island of Luzon with one or 1 hV" JUTOllOa t0 tJlO f!0M8t. VS M'O told WlHt jty advantages will be, how it will bring products from the interior to the coast, open up a great area of land to profitable cultivation, reduce greatly great-ly the cost of keeping garrisons in the interior and greatly reduce the work of policing the island. That is all. right, but for the same reasons and to facilitate the work of putting down Aguin-aldo Aguin-aldo and his Tagals; the road was advocated by a Salt Lake paper shortly after the treaty with Spain was signed. It was shown that the building of the road would give employment to the natives who mtght desire to work; that it would enable the army to run down swiftly any hostile force; that it would open up the interior of the island and reveal its resources and be a work of progress and peace as by it in the far interior the people could find a market for their little crops. After Ave years it seems the government has caught on. |