Show I 1 jew ill silton ION loaia I 1 ip P there tt app cpr ars to be a posit billay that a wr comm anity may presently knock at t UW door of the hour house of nations beg 4 i ciol CD for this if Is the tb pin plat islands which have been a is pin ab lib colony for OTT over fean years for a lent long period this colony lai lea been bean a it harden burden on spanish amace in the deficit was and though th the original origin a I 1 tar it ba has teo teen reformed a uniform rate arteo of import duly duty of 0 50 sair lit cent being substituted for the old corn com system and all export duties except that on tobacco being repealed there are ir aa as yet no signs of financial re cupp cupe ration and it Is being seriously considered both at madrid and manilla whether it might not be well to abolish abol lili the th c colo 01 onial olal regime and let the islands shift for or the selves 11 abere here are 7 said to tol be 1100 of 0 11 hem am spreading nearly from borneo lorne oto to I 1 bior or mota and bearing some slight evidence by belt formation that they once formed part of the lent lost M elayan con their total area Is 11 about two thirds of that ot of california Lall torola and sod their population li to at large portions of the islands hate have never been explored and hie the natives remain in lit bleir original savage con editions then these people produce and ex port tobacco hemp sugar coffee and cocoa they also grow considerable quantities of rice which ti is consumed at home like other islands their exports exceed their ito import ports lly fly the latent returns tl ti a former amounted to and the latter to 21 1 abe he wanti wants of tl it a people are very mall imail of tee the I 1 philippine lilai wai ders dan little I 1 an as been known in consee cence of 0 tt a at creativeness crell creti Tenet veness of 0 the tl LAI anish officials onic offic lali ialo and the ignorance of the spanish welten an englishman named jol n I 1 brems i 1 who pent spent several years in lit tl 0 a islands bai has ed ft a book ou on them 1 ellch I ich a attracting attention lien and women are imell tl ough muscular the average statue la Is rat er under than over are die feet but they are figi ten and brave an army of philippine islanders drilled I 1 11 i modern tactics would be formidable more store th than it it 10 chinese hate have settled niong tl it tse r islanders and tl a 0 9 W cju or 10 QUO OW si 11 an lardi lards backed by tie home autio authority rity relieve them of tie government of their country hut but it they took it into their head heads to let set up an independent nation it would be a serious problem to gainsay tl ti am 01 ban Franc Fratic laio loto lull call |