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All crmnun ations should tb ad- .
4reised to Tlhet Til ti,,l,AUx Srl'lN EL,
Chibodau x. L a.I
Suberll.rI1 r who ftill £O r.c4:eve thelr papr t
,3 nr ,l , r lll, ! ntLIof w tIl out delav.
u'Flly prepared to do job work
qf every description.
r rlr~speen'c oni subcltsl f generkl
ntherest soli e eloIa
reo i re c ntiCe a t"II 'ir frnInnnic atlons, ja
wrtrI t he r nel , r ii o rs r es nneeen
$bh.ugh ItW. ey ' ull d -ure toi wthbnl itt l l
ht' .iartl u. A a r.v;deuc" i1 woor d Loth.
M alt t e r w !i V o n l y o n t ' uI Air 'i l o t t th ,l-. t , r d l
gaglP'fL in, tl"rt' in tlchi ;n', th vouthn
wuiprifl . the snr.T e by
Rioting in Fmnoe,
There has teen rioting last
week in some parts of France
tesuilting from the govern
Inent's dirty work qf disband
jng the religjous orders en
gaged in teaching the youtht
pf the country. ihe govern
ment has prescribedi religious
rducatir o and is now engag
pd in expelling the religious.
At Marseilles the govern- t
inent force= were re iste(l and
a riot Was the result. putting
the whole couuntry in a fever
oft excitelnelt, which threat
puis the country with civil
war. Poor France is lnOW
uudergoing a crucial trial,
and it is hard to foretell what
ther outcome will be.
Outrages in The Philippines.
At last (Gen. Miles's report
o thle conditions in the Phil.
ippic.s. has been made public
pby the War Department, and
it confirm s all that we had
heard of the cruelties and
harbarism practiced by Amer
jcan soldiers upon the natives.
It fixes the stigma of sihameI
upon the fair fame of the
army.
The defenders of the army
"-- aL me ol.have already
ppene teinrt nwTertevrm
der and Villifioation upon
(len. Miles and are impugn
ing his motives. Heis charg.
ed with being an aspirant for
the I)emocratic presidential
imominiation and having doc
tored his report to furnish
pampaign ammunitioqi to im
rpeialisty. His defamiers will
fin4 it difficult to make the
American people swallow
puch "rot."
Visited the Pope.
"'The English Sovereign
yisit~ the Vatican and is re
veive4 by the Pontiff;" such
was the announcement made
in diispat(lhes from Rome un
(ler date of the 2,Qth ultimo.
The fact itself is simple
tnough and apparently in
.ignificant; still when we con
sider the history of the rela
tions of the last three centu
ries and a half existing be
tween England and the Vati
pan, it a4usnes considerable
imr~rtgce and is pregnant
with vest possibiltties' for
King Edward's visit to the
Pope is proof of the existence
of the greater tolerance and
forbearance amhug the mass
es of his Protestant subjects
towards Catholics and the
8overeign Pontiff than have
ever prevqile4 since the eata
blishment of the Uhqrch of
England. Such a gracious
ect oq the part of thile English
.overeigu would have been
impo.siile, even less than
fifty or i,,rgar)M, twenty five
years ago. It is true that
even in the full blaze of this
twentieth century cnlighlten
meqt some few bigoted Pro
testqn.t bodies protestexl
against the King's visit qaud
express "intense regret t hlat
oir Protestant King U!tentdIs
to vis. the Pope, qhb1 is de5
erilw4 in tiB Ii,,ili J: o(l o(u1r
estahlished ('ihur'ch a-. aati
.hhrist;" hat tlhe great body.
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of Englishmen evidently did si
not share this spirit of intol- qi
erance. (
Who has read any comment n
on the comparative smallness tl
of the Steel Trust's taxes? tl
its report shows that it paid tl
taxes to the amount of l
$2,397.465 in 1902. This is 1
less than 2 oio of its net earn
ings and less than 2 mills on .
the dollar of the value of its
property, according to itstl
capital and sworn statement s
of its president. Is there
any sound reason why this t
protected-billion-dollar trust
`should pay in taxes 18 cents 1
onl every $10) when the un- f
protected common people pay
$2 or $3 on every $100 worth i
of property f
It is probable that this
trust pays less than $1,000,(00 I
of taxes on its iron and steel t
lands, valued at over $100,- t
000),000. This is less than I
one mill on the dollar. The
taxes on ordinary farm lands t
worth $1,00).000,000 are about ,
$15.00o,0.0.
A special Correspondent
from Washington writes:
There is an eager interest ]
here in all circles anent the
proceedings before the Inter
state Commerce Commission
in New York in connection
with the Coal Trust. The
importance of the investiga
tien is evidently appreciated
but in some quarters there is 1
a lack of information as to
the origin of the investiga
tion. A number of papers
have stated that the Inter
state (Commerce Commission
set itself in motion at the in
1 stance of United States Attor
I ney-General Knox. That is
an extraordinary misappre
hension of the situation. The
truth is that The luvestiga
tion is being held because At
a torney General Knox could
not be induced to take action
against the Coal Tr It on
that is now in course of being
made public at the sessions of
the Commission.
On October 4 last, Repre
s1 entative William Randolph
Hearst informed President
1 Roosevelt by open letter that
he had petitioned the Attor
1 ney-General for permission to
e supply the latter with Docu
. mentary Evidence of the exis
tence of the Coal Trust, in or
der that he, Mr. Knox, might
be enabled to proceed against
it for its disruption under
Federal law. A few day sub
. sequently Mr. HIearst was for
h mally requested by Mr. Knox
e to submit his proofs to United
s. States Attorney Burnett for
.the Southern District of New
e York, who would report
t.thereon to the DIepartment of
,. Justice.
. Mr. Hearat placed General
- Burnett in possession of evi
. dence which established the
i- facts that the coal-carrying
Srailroads are in illegal combi
nation for the suppression of
competition in mining, for the
r arbitrary regulation of sup
ply, and the fixing of prices.
e Attorney-Gecneral Knox re
e ceived Mr. Hearst's proofs,
with General Burnett's report
upon the same, but neither
t brought suit against the Coal
Ie Trust nor gave Mr. Hearst's
re evidence publicity.
a- Last winter a number of
United States Senators en
IS deavored to compel Mr. Knox
h to reveal the nature of the
n evidence transmitted to him,
n but their efforts failed, the
Ie Attorney General's friends in
at the Senate, taking the ground
isl that to force him to disclose
n.j:the caste against the Coal
0- Trust might interfere with
-xl hi. planms for prosecuting it.
id And this grol(nd was taken
it without any apparent lnuno.
Is rious initentioin.
s- RIeplesemtative Hearst ap
r iealetl to, the Ielterstate Com
i- men e t'ommiis-iomi to grant
)'ll im a hla,'i g. '[he C'nunis
;ion complied with his re-'
wuest, and Mr. Hearst, as the lea
!ole complainant against the do
Doal Trust, is, by attorney. gli
now exposing in New York
the methods and practices of th
the monopoly which cursed wl
the community with the pro- ue
longed miners' strike of last no
summer and brought on the th
fuel famine-to its own pro- a
fit and the public's loss. pr
When this inquiry is ended, la
the people of the United so
States will have been made
so thoroughly familiar with oi
the devices of the Coal Trust le
and their unlawfulness that hi
legal action should be taken uE
for its dissolution. fe
Mr. Baer and his parceners h(
in coal monopoly are not en- ai
gaged in a legitimate busi- li,
ness enterprise, but a corimi- g
nal copspiracy. Therefore it
the law should deal with
them for the protection of the
robbed public.
If the Coal Trust is not Cm
then prosecuted by this ad- m
ministration, we will know It
how empty are its professions m
of hostility to the combined m
monopolies of the country. g
Educational Failure in the P.
Philippines ? tl
"We are making a failure
of this scheme, a monstrous, a
mortifying failure; not irre
mediable, perhaps, but fast ii
becoming chronic, and requir
ing instant attention from n
those who are competent to c
modify the situation." This a
rather startling statement in g
regard to our attempt to set 0
up an American educational d
system in the Philippines is
made in an article in Gunton's
Magazine by Theodore de n
Laguna, Ph. D., a Cornell f
man who went to the Philip
pines as a teacher. There is
"widespread disgust" among
the Filipinos for the Ameri
can educational scheme, he
of t chere to get back
to America. All this is in C
strange contrast with the c
high hope that so many had e
in the civilizing influence of
that shipload of teachers that
crossed the Pacific a year and
a half ago.
Dr. de Laguna attributes
the failure to two principal
causes-the quality of the c
teachers, and the attempt to
impose the English language
on the natives. In regard to
the teachers he says:
"The teachers were a regi
ment of carpet-baggers, come
to exploit the country in their
small way, and then, after a
few years, would sail happily '
home without a regret to I
spare. Had everything gone
smoothly with the work here, i
the carpet-baggers' interests
might have been sufficient to
keep them at their task; but
with the first breath of fail
ure, it would be hard to find
any class of men more liable
to hopeless discouragement.
SThen, indeed, it became a
mere question of living out
one's time somehow and get-1
ting home again.
S"Few of the teachers had
any considerable knowledge
Sof Spanish; scarcely any
could speak it grammatically
and fluently. This was a
Sserious handicap, not so much
in the class-room as out of it.
LFor though in these islands
Sonly a small percentage of
the inhabitants can speak
Spanish, it is none the less
the established idiom of cul
I ture. Every gentleman speaks
e it, almost without exception.
1 Thus it happens that the
h American. teacher in his ig
. norance of Spanish, and still
a more in his picturesque at
.,temlpts to express himself in
broken, ungramnmatical phras
-ea, puts himself upon the
Slevel of the boor and uin
t avoi'lably expwes !iimnelf to,
The teacher, time, may If
learil Spanish; ~st the native J
does not care to learn En:l
glishW
"The scheme is to teach
the Filipinos something for
which they feelno immediate
need, and in twich they take
no direct intiet, namely,i
the English lejgnage. Other tr
subjects hays *. place in the th
program, bnu $jes English a
language is practically the' T
sole subject to Instruction. by
"Why, th6.e do not the m
children leap-tI Some do a
learn it, nas*, the few thatI
have a daily dpportunity of ,
using what they learn. In a
few cities, where there are
hosts of Amerleans, soldiers P.
and citizens, JCnglish is a
living tongue; but for the
great multitg~iof Filipinos
it is praomtica dead lan-I
"Why should a Filipino o
care to learn English Not
many reasons are conceivable.
In a few cities it might help
many a boy to get employ
ment, and in these cities En
glish can be successfully
taught. Elsewhere it is im
portant only for the govern
ing class, affeoting, as it does,
their commercial and politi
cal interests.
"But fcr the Filipino peas
antry there is no motive for
learning English, and accord
ingly they will not and can
not lear, it. A new language
can only come to them with
a new life; schooling can" not'
give it to them. Americans
commonly suppose that these
dialects are very simple af
fairs, consisting at mos;; of aI
few hundred words, and with
no very elaborate grammati
cal structure. This is far
from being true. To speak
of the Visayan language, to
which I have given some
study, the richness of its
vocabulary has been an ever.
reourrent occasion of wonder
consistency of its grammati
cal structure am obvious
I enough to charm even a very
imperfectly trained philolo
gist"
I Simultaneously with this
declaration that our Philip
s pine educational scheme is a
1 failure in practise, comes a
declaration by Dr. A. F.
SChamberlain in Tie Pedagog
iwal Seminar that it is wrong
inprinciple. 1Hesays:
"Education no more than
a nation, canlexist half-slave
and half-free--ite motto, too,
is liberty or death. To edu
r cate the Filipinos, without
using to the fnll their lan
Sguage and their literature,
ethe thousandfold stimuli of
,their enviropent, their ra
Scial temperaent and ideals,
o their past history and natural
ambitions for the future, is,
to staunt them in body, mind,'
and soul. We have let loose
upon them ~he soldier, the
trader, the schoolteacher,
and the mislonary--and we
at talk abogt elaootion t The
t- brain are l atretaing
them to at ti·` hands of our
d teachers Is rpre than the
'water-cure' ar soldiers gave
e them. •In e cation, as in!
everything else connected
y with the 'new colonialism,'
we began wrong. We can
h change, if we will, for it is
. not altpgether too late yet.
Is But it must be a complete
change and an honest admis
k sion of errr. To educate
Sthe Filipineos as Filipinoe,
l- and not as Americans, is the
rs right idea4. Ist 10,000,000
1. Malays as such develop along
e the lines of their native gen
g- ius and some day the world
11 will rejoice that they have1
t- been. Educate them through
n themselves and they will be-'
lo come strong, as their kinsmen
ie the Japanese have done, ad
i- ding a new star to the con
to stellation of civilized ra'.
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