Show 80 ME FACTS A FANCIES ABOUT THE philippines there has been much sen tation in america about people and conditions by MAXIMO M secretary detary of the philippine mission A certain lady at the st louls louis exposition saw a at t k a ba a 4 b r 0 w n boned man in faultless evening dress alid accosted him 1 V with the inquiry 1 I suppose You 1110 japanese sir the mail aid dressed replied then you must be chinese she sa aid maximo M kalaw nat no i am I 1 am a filipino Fill pino he replied hows that asked the lady 1 I thought they were all savages living in the woods well ill tell you how I 1 came here b lie said A month before P I 1 left the I 1 yes was living in the woods wood bit bi t the Aine american rican governor decided decide to cach as many wild roen men as possible el traen them and send them over liere here so here I 1 am just as aou ou see and chest st louis lady actually believed bit him that list Is what you would call fancies about the philippines the tact fact M is however that the filipinos and their ancestors have been civilized and christians kristians brist ians for years rears that the non christian population according to I 1 benrus of 1918 Is only and en chese are not all uncivilized another fancy is that not until tb the e coming of tile the americans were school buildings seen in the islands roads built or substantial houses erected do you L know now that tor for hundreds of years the filipinos have had colleges and schools and that the university ot of santo tomas is only twenty five years coder than harvard that as early as 1 60 out of a population of 0 people there were schools for boys and for girls that in eight vars before the coming of the americans there were 2137 schools to grant self government to luzon under aguinaldo Agul naldo would be like grant inc self government to an apache reservation er under some local chief thus sooke a former president of the united t K ates during the filipino american war v ar Ux exaggeration could be an excuse a a time when the dignity of the ame ican people peale demanded the extinction 0 F alipino opposition but do you know ii the fhe philippine Ile republic publIc before the ai merican occupation of the islands bad the approval of prominent amerl ameri runs entis who were on the spot like john T ett director of the pan anrica an alcan t L i i in who compared it favorably with the japanese government that admiral dewey considered the lie filipinos oetter fitted for self government than the 1 e cubans that they had drafted a constitution at SIa lalos which elicited he approval of distinguished republicans like the late senator george V F hoar that before the coming of the amerle americans aris they Ahey had produced national heroes like the martyred marty red jose razal pronounced by a republican congressman Ite representative cooper as the noblest victim that lias has ever fallen into the clutches of tyranny and do you know that the filipinos nave have not had for hundreds of years any caste system blood distinction or royal roya I 1 families and that unlike their oriental sisters they are the only christian peo jle ale in the orient people have pictured an ignorant ss hs of filipinos illiterate poor liv iii hiie a life of servitude for a few athy land owners and foreigners no houses or farms or property properly it ir own do you know that 70 r of the people above ten years oi can read all and write and that this r alilce iii ie of literacy Is almost as high i of the states of the union ai 0 Is higher than in any country of south Ani america erica higher than the literacy of the spanish sli people and unquestionably above that of any of tile new countries recognized in europe 10 you know that there are a million nd ad a half half farms in the philippines ad that od 00 per cent of these farmr ir r owned by in other word it at ort novt of OC the he christian S of them thein at least ahe in e ali h r own farms with houses c ci n independent of any absentee I 1 or foreign master that tl ent of tile the urban property con of houses and lands is owned awne i i i ivas s of the philippines and aku i r cent Is in ands of for a ars rs 03 at yet these are Arel facts cabled 1 h ung cing governor cl diaries jarles emmeit yea 7 to the war department from tin tile vent rent census estimates having solemnly promised the fill inos their independence and having leavin one before the world as the champion champ lui at i self determination the aa fillipino peon pec ile cannot understand how america americ au 30 consistently refuse to make good goo iese icse promises |