| Show PHILIPPINES SHOW I A Annual Report of Secretary of War on Island Pos Pos- sessions RAILROADS ARE IMPORTANT Government Making III Good Its lib i and amI Maintaining Peace and ami I Order Firmly Washington Dec 14 H. Conditions In fri Inthe i tho the Philippines V hO steady ste Improvement Improve improve- mont ment and the commission lon has cut down the expenses ts o of government go In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Islands while Increasing Its efficiency efficiency effi ern- according to lo the lie annual report of the secretary of war var made public tonight The rhe report In part Is a as follows fol fol- fol lows lovs It gratifies me to me-to to bo ho able to say that conditions in Iii the Philippines show steady Improvement The Thc commission has used e every effort to cu cut t down the I expenses of or government o ant and has found this not inconsistent with rendering the government more mor efficient In Iii ever every part of oC the Islands except In the two provinces IHO of or Leyte and Samar peace and tranquillity obtain The capture or surrender of or eight or ten of thi th the leaders of ladrone band banda In tile tue Island Islan of or Luzon Lu Lu- zon comprising all alt but one of those who vho have vexed the peaceful ants of or the ra alog provinces huts has Brought hl about a a. better hetter condition than over evel before existed In the islands These men who were vere captured or Ot who surrendered surrendered sur sur- rendered ha have been tried tIled before beCore a Fill Fill- 1 ino 1110 Judge and have been shown to have been guilty without exception of lOan many and und cruel murders murdens and andall andall andall all hut but one have been sentenced to death that lint one being sentenced to thirty years years' Imprisonment It Il Is significant sig sig- that all these ladrone leaders styled themselves cs hl high h officials In a Filipino republic that had no local habU habl tat tation lon but bUl followed the officials Cramone from Cram one jungle to another until tile the they were ere captured The Tue Impetus given to agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural o. o operations o and tho the Increase In Inthe inthe inthe the demand for farming property due tue to the destruction of oC the thes latrone ladrone bands are poll pointed d out in the lie report of the commission Not ot Lit In Sumar I ar and L Ley to e has been for a long time lime a hitter bitter f feud jud between the mountain peoples of those two Is Islands Is- Is lands known as alS s and thc people of th the coast const towns In these islands Island the lie raise raltH hemp and dispose of It to purchasers chasers from the coast towns They arc at times subject subject sub Hub to oppression and fraud by the thc local dealers In hemp and by hy the municIpal municipal mu mu- who attempt to monopolize mon anon their sales at prices very much below the lie market e ant and other causes caucus eremite a constant feeling of suspicion suspicion sus sus- Ui- Ui and on the part of ot oftie tie the mountain people against ag constituted authority ant and much more through misunderstanding mis mis- understanding than a real spirit of lawlessness law Jaw If SUfIS disturbances arise and aro are fanned into Hume Humo by hy tho time case ease with which fakirs ont and pseudo religious lead lead ers 18 are arc able uble to arouse tho the mountain peoples Into the tIme formation of or armed bands and the making of or forays into th thO h. h lowlands The rue depressed condition of or business t tIn in the Islands seems to have continued especially In respect to the raising and amid exportation of gu sugar and tobacco The Time violent Hud anti unusual storm gLom of cyclonic character which visited time tile Islands In iii Inthe tIm the latter part palt of or 1105 destroyed about III In value of th the crop of or hemp lierni In the time matter maller of or exports however this hits loss toss was waK made up by an Increase In Inthe inthe the production anti and exportation of co- co MO so that thiat on time tho whole th the tho exports ex ox- ports of time flu Inland IRIan fell felt off utI only about half hil C a million i ion of if dollars The rite imports of or the time Islands were vere re reduced rt- rt below the time preceding year car omu sIIM minting the tho balan balance of trade m n favor Of if the Islands Island th that t I Is Is the time 3 of or exports over about about A lar large o part of the lie reduction In Imports was due din to the time reduction ion In the Lime Importation of rice This on the whole Is a n good sl sigr r. r for fol time the reason that It Il Indicates that the Philippines are nrc raising their own rice mill and extend extend- III tug Ing their agriculture Ilg which has for a number t of y ars been lIeen retarded It by the tho death of cattle from t Jt It I Is slowly recovering from this blow Are rc Good Gout The finances of the government are aro In a good gont condition After all 1111 hills bills were paid palt Juno 3 30 last Insl there was a surplus surplus sur sur- plus of or a million and amid a a. half pod gold and amI it was hoped that In lie Iho coming coming- year there would be bo a sufficient amount available over oer an anti and above c the ordinary expenses a of the to devote IIO or to needed much much in internal internal in- in Improvements The harbor of or Manila is now pr protected and has thirty feet ct of ot water behind the breakwaters vt frith an za a area l.- l. sufficient to let et the tho mer raer- e- e chant fleet of th time the Orient ride at anchor safely during the time southwest st monsoons I which blow for for fOl six months with great reat force areC All time the tonnage c and amid harbor I charges Cs have been removed ant and two large stel and nud concrete wharves are being erected alongside of which cs vessels ves s-es- I leIs sels of 23 foot foo draft can safely moor and e easily discharge their cargoes oes and when these are arc completed as us the they will vIll wille willI he be e In iii a short tine time there w be beno no harbor In Iii the tIme East Bast more favorable 1 to s Sj s. far as time the matter of or fa facilities Ca- Ca a- a for Cot or discharge of or cargo carfO and amid the tIme freedom from toni government exactions are arc con concerned cern ed Contracts have ha bech met let have hav been Issued and work I is to complete a system of ot water supply for Manila that will greatly reath reduce th the danger danger dan dan- ger Jer o of epidemic Contracts have been lot let bonds have hove boon I Issued sued imd nd works work Is s proceeding to make makl a compete sewerage sewerage sew sew- a e system in iii Manila which will of course greatly reduce the death rate rato time The arbors I-arbors of Hollo Iloilo and Cebu the lie theOther Other two great reat harbors o of the lie Islands are ire being rapidly Improved at an aggregate ag- ag Cre regate atc cost of or Many Mammy trunk roads ro siave m been projected and are under construction in various of or the Islands Tho rho system of or provincial and munIcipal municipal municipal muni munI- cipal gO I Is being perfected especially In regard r ard to the care with tIme the fund of oC tho government aro are expended ami anjI The Time controversies between the time Homan Itoman Ito Ko- man Catholic church and the so called Philippine Catholic church led by A Agli- Agli lIpa lI- lI pa pay ha have hav been transferred to the time courts where they aro arc reaching a set set- Althou Although h cholera In Manila and amid elsewhere In iii time the Islands during the past year ear time the action of the health authorities authorities au au- nu- nu was so prompt and effective that thai it did hid not spread 1 Philippine HuH a In June and Ju July last Jast with your our approval ap ap- pro cal and anul that of or tUc lee Var War department I conce concessionary grants were made maLIc by the time Philippine government o one to the time PhilIppIne Philippine Phil Phil- Railway company a corporation of the time state slate of oC Connecticut as us assignee of J. J G. G White and Co for railways In Inthe inthe the tho Islands aggregating mills mill's 1 in ln length Lh and amid tho lie other to to the time Manila Railroad company compan a a. corporation of or New Jersey as o. o assignee of and Co Co for Cor or railways rall in the tIme Island of or Luzon a aggregating miles of new construction and anil J of road now in operation Any Anyone one familiar with the time conditions In Jn the Philippines must I be aware that real pro prosperity can come conme to those 1 islands lands and no substantial improvement be made maie in lu the welfare education and uplifting of the people until time thu means of or Inter Inter communication cation between b th Ilia Is Islands Islands Is Is- lands and between the lie various towns town n each cacti Island shah be greatly in In- In creased Tho The most Important step that thal can be betaken betaken betaken taken In this way is the time construction of railroads for they not riot only In iu themselves themselves them them- selves furnish most important Intercommunication Inter Inter- communication and transportation hut but the they also make pO possible and Indeed bring about the time construction of wa wagon on roads The Islands are ara peculiar In iii ha having good h In each Island those living on the tho coast have hn to travel far Car to a n. good harbor to tu embark themselves themselves them them- selves or their a agricultural products Railways Hallways connecting thy harbors with the coast and nd Interior town ute much I needed The Time conditions In imm the Philip Philip- rifles fines with rC respect to railroads have haw been do Until lO 19 there was no commercial railroad In the time Islands IS I am glad to bo be able to sa say that an arran arrangement ha has been made lJ by which the thc government o hs us been relieved cd from the time necessity for maintaining means menns of communication between many ninny of or time the Is- Is land s b by a line of oC steamers and private capital has been Induced with a prospect prospect prospect pros pros- of subsidy ld to lo carry cany the malls and amid maintain re regular ullI communication alon alonI along prescribed lines with approved accommodations I upon their ships Condition 0 1111 I I On time the whole Whole- tIme the conditions in the mc e eI Philippines give Jhc much for 01 C ct S se satis satis- I faction fh Thu government o Is doing the work worl thorr that thal it has bus proposed to do doIt doIt dohi It IK Is maintaining peace and order with witha vitha a firm hund It Is teaching tho time people It by practical ox JeR lessons ons In self self- government and nail It IL is giving them an ano o o- by the raising of crops the time proceeds of which th they jv may with certainty certainty certainty take to ls as aM their own Lime tho means of making mr the thu islands pros pros- Iru porous The Improvement Is slow show and does dies s 's m nf f Nil I II I spectacular demonstration demon hut lUl it is 18 not mint for or that ra reason rason on to toSo So 1 regarded T us LiM unimportant What hat Is mo most l Ml now Is legislation from mm con CI congress which ili shah hall I Comm convince vi ii cc I tin th Ii Li Filipino Fili 1 I i pino of or i III im of Limo tho cin I lo o aid then them an as fn ai m is UI possible pos jOs- sible to rl a n iy which hits has HI I Absent from tim tho Islands throughout hout the time of or American occupation |
