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Show SLAVERY IN THE PHILIPPINES. Startling Announcement Made by Commissioner in His Report. Washington. Chattel slavery, as well as peonage, is flourishing in the Philippines. This startling assertion is made in a special report by Commissioner Com-missioner Dean C. Worcester to the governor general. Mr. Worcester describes de-scribes in great detail the different forms of traffic in human beings, the Impossibility of suppressing the business busi-ness under the present laws and the futile efforts at new legislation which have 'been made from time to time since the American occupation of the Philippines. The citation covers the entire period down to the present time. Mr. Worcester says: "It has been, and still is, a common thing for Filipinos living in a territory adjacent to that inhabited by Negritos, Ne-gritos, Tabbanaus, Eongots or Ifua-gaos," Ifua-gaos," says the report, "to obtain children by capture or purchase and to hold them as slaves, selling them to others whenever it proves financially finan-cially advantageous to do so. Such unfortunates are clearly chattel slaves and often are repeatedly sold and resold." |