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. ' CHARLES DANA GIBSON'S LATEST PICTURES , .. J r - "" .".' Copyright, 1114, by, Life Publishing Ce. American Effort to Make the Moros Get Along With One Wife Each Fails Interfereace With Religions Customs WASHINGTON. D. C, March i. , What afcaU we do with those , , . u. ! extra wives of the Moros. v i s Lorillard Spencer, of Newport, a I fashionable woman who icvcumj - i ciuiiajni-nip, ana ail ine peuy cuius lied the Moros as a volunteer mission- j of scores pt tribes look np to him as .. i has managed to persuade con- j their overlord. stress to refrain from interfering with It is not Uncle Sam, but Oatto Mandl me conjugal relations of those wild i that is master of all the southern part ... 0pie So far. at all events, as polyga- j of the archipelago. Our control is i.uus marriages already accomplished , merely nominal. We have interfered to re concerned. j some extent with war raiding and out- But the fact is that what congress ! lawry; in some degree, by punitive w ishes in this matter will not influ- j military expeditions, we have estab ence the Moros in the least. They do lished- order. But we have not civil pot care two cents for American au- I ized the Moros in the slightest degree. thorn. . and uptodate their "subjuga- j Ttey do not wish. to be civilised. tion" "has been rather more nominal i CoL George S. Young. U. & A, in than real. j testifying before the senate committee. Are .uoBaramniaiu, i The Moros arc Mohammedans which j mea-ns that i polygamy is part of their religion. The Koran teaches that a plurality- of wives is a desirable thing. ; .nd to be recommended If the United ' T - ..,.... "- .T Mates government tries to establish j and enforce a one-wte limit, mere n nia nqmremenu in ue way OI coe vvill be much fighting and inde'inite tome, in that warm climate, and he is u ollble 1 satisfied, to dispense even with that. Tne system of control adopted for j All he has to do is to pull a banana nit 1'lnlippiires prescribes that there j off a tree, or a cocoanut. and he has .liall be no interference with the re- j enough to eat A small patch of ligion of the natives so Ions; as no i ground planted with rice and corn, and . rucl practices are involved, such as J tilled by the women, will furnisn what m.man sacrifices. These latter, hap- j ever else he requires for food." j.ilc. are rare. As for polygamy, it is j Head Hunters Are Uffrctlvr. not common among, the every-day Mo- CoL Young explained further that i os. because few of them can afford when a Atoro outlaw gave trouble, the tin- luxury of more than one wife. method commonl adopted by the ihicfs may bare anywhere from half American authorities for catching him a dozen to 30. i was to employ a professional head- Th.- Moro country may be said to J hunter. "There wa.a a raw nut Inner (emprise Mindanao (the largest of the j i-lands of the Philippines group) and ill the otner lsianos,"-; me arciipei iisn to the south " t extending to within a short JUiv .Borneo. All oi tli:- territory, its "area in the aggre gate enorrnous. is supposed to bc- l.Mig to the United States. But the l..ri.v don't know it. Tney persist in i,ia narriig their own altalrs, and. ir for-, presumably but he felt bored and interfered with, they fight. . needed distraction. The Spaniards could never subjugate , 'Having ireid mv best to get him, tl'-m because they fought too hard. A but without success I hired a head Moro thinks no more of life than we hunter to attend to the business Two do of a red apple. It is born in him or three days later my man turned up 1.. fipht. He loves It: it amuses him Pat my quarters with a sack. He turned; i . kill people. There is no way to , it upside down and out rolled two vi arc him. Our government in Min- , heads. 1 asked why there were two. danao at th present time amounts to j and he evplaint-d that the outlaw .had nothing mote, after 1 years of occn- j a compauion with him. and, not being lation. than a few scattered outTOSts. j sure which was the individual wanted. The Americans who occupy these out- 1 he had killed both of them. nosts dare not venture away from them I "My Men." said'CoL Young. "Is to let more than i0 yards without an armed j ,-uard. I Dntto Jinn w Supreme. I Th. real governm nt in Mindanao is I ADVICE ef Savage Moros Always Causes Trouble Merely tf osrinaL a Moro government. The whole of that -neat island is controled. In a political sense, by one very powerful man, the Vtitto jg, who jf aA of theen- tire Moro nation. He inherited his,! . ins jiure is naraijr cspxuie ul being civilized according to 'our ideas. j , tie does not wish to be educated. He wants to be let alone. His lot con tents him, and be is happy. Of clothing' ) h neeri llttlo tr nftf-liina A hrM1i. ciout tne size ot a dlsnrag will serve ago, he said, where a fellow with au enthusiasm for murr'er lived out in the lulls, coming into town every now and then to kill people, just for some I thins: to do. One day he came in and I killed a Chinaman walked right into the house and cut him all to pieces. lit had no narticular erudee asrainst the Chinaman had never seen him be- the Moro alone. Let him go right along a:, lie lis been cloug all liii liU. lie . is a happy, contented person. You have 1 sot to watch him, of cours- lie will I TO THE,MENTALLY FEEBLE Keep tne Moutk Closed -By Rene Bache and American Centre! ef Them Is . kill yon sometimes. Just Tor the sake of something to do: and yet some Mo ros are very attractive. Are a Sober I'eople. An undeniable virtue of' the Moros is that they do not indulge m alco holic stimulants. They make an in toxicant out or cocoanut milk, called "vino," which they sell to Americans or other white people, hut they never drink it themselves. This "vino" is powerful stuff; It sets the white man crazy. CoL Young says that he has known an American soldier to drink "vino. go right to his quarters, get his gun, and begin shooting at every body he saw. A sufficient quantity of this delightful, beverage to make half a dozen men exceedingly drunk may be purchased for 5 cents. Is a. Rleh Country. Mindanao is a rich country, with a climate far better than that of Luzon, and enormous potential resources. Much rice is raised there, and immense quantities of hemp. These and other products are largely exported, being carried to all parts of the world by Mg snipe which come to Zamboanga the seaport on the end of the western peninsula of the island from Australia and elsewhere. AS of this business of raising hemp andrrice is inVbe hands ot Spaniards and Englishmen, who hire Moros to work for them at 50 cents a day. It is rather unreliable labor, for the needs ot these wid people are so few that em ployment means little to them, and the holding of a continuous job is of small importance. There are also some rub ber plantations. The white people al- ! so armeo. ana maintain body- guards of selected professional fight rs. Now and then they are murdered. hut that ts merely a business risk like any other. I'ceeefnl at lreF4eBt. Under present conditions there is peace at all events in the archipelago. Our strong hand once withd.-awn. tur moil would immediately arise. There would be a recrudescence of the piracy which was formerlv a prosperous in dustry of the Moros. They used to make a business of plundering the coast towns of Luzon and other islands, sarrying off much booty and inany alaves. The boys were kept for rer vice as laborers, likewise; the girls though the latter in many cases were added to the harems of 'the dattoa. The elderlv and infirm captives were sold to savage tribes of Borneo, to 1 e of fered up in ceremonial sacrifices. Jltnj- I'irate HlreiN. In earlier davs whole fleets of Mojo ir.tle ,ioi apenl months of every ear in predatory expelitions So hold were the- th..t thin- -swift s.nlii.,- craft EL PASO HERALD actually infested the network of chan nels through which the waters of the Pasig river (flowing through Manila) find their way into the ocean. This business was checked to a. great extent, however, by the Spanish gunboats, when finally such small steam war craft were introduced In those waters. Tbey could outrun the proas, and made a practice of sinking them and drown- ing the pirates without mercy, giving I no quarter. I No Ma very. 3Iuch Peonage. Today slavery is prohibited by law throughout the Philippines, and the Moros are no longer allowed to make their slave raiding expeditions. But another evil, almost as bad. still pre vails in Luzon, among the Filipinos namely, peonage, which means the get ting of a man into debt and holding him thereafter in servitude under such conditions that the debt Is constantly increasing and there la no possibility WHAT'S I i . v r su t' sVl) Your. T. . VPhJ2 TOP-i vr-sr1 Zx ( Mi if mimmlMy''' ' of hii ever freeing himself. The peons, i are not bought and sold, but tne deota are sold and bought, and with them go the peons. It is a beating of the devil around the bush. The Filipinos insist on maintaining this custom, and the Americans have not succeeded in putting a stop- to it. In one Instance recently brought Into the courts it was shown, that a man tact borrowed $1.1! with which to buy a shirt. After he and his wife had worked for a namber of years to repay tne loan, the debt amounted to S37.SS. In terest charged was at 10 percent a month. It was an ai-plication of -the loan shark idea, with trimmings. ' HefUMe to Change SyMtem. It is a usual practice to charge a man for the tools he uses while work ing for the person whe hires him. If a plow is broken, or the carabao is taken sick, a debt is .created against him. Automatically thereupon he be HE SMILING AT7---FILL IT OUT Complete bc picture by dravving a line through the dots, "Week-End Edition, March 6-7, 1913 comes a peon, and the debt contlnu aIlygrows. because the creditor allows him only SO cents a month perhaps for wages. Af ter ,' he has fallen into the toils, his wasjes are fixed arbitrarily by the master: He has no redress, and ..the Philippines legislature has refused to mane any law regelating tne matter. In truth, the Filipinos generally fa vor the system. Manv of the well-to-do famiilies in Manila have servants who arc held under this pseudo slavery. Some of the latter have been sold by their parents in part payment of debts. i The ordinary cost of a Want Ad n The El Paso Herald is" 25 cents. It reaches an average of about SJ.W readers each Issue. Every dollar spent for home valley products to well tnveetec. . . v . fit ' w i,i , 8 . . ;. ' .'7 y Gi '. . - ,JA. . .- - ' cO . -" - '. c ". ' . f;W 4.1 "... ' , 1 ? v & 'V -3a i' 5Q. .: beginning at Xe. 1 aad taking them numerically. English Women end Girls Raise Fund for Purchase of 75 Molor Ambulancet London. Eng., March . A fleet t about 73 motor ambulances each c-? bought by English women and girls of the same given name, is bem c i . ganizea Ty tne Kea cross lor servi-e at the front. The names selected for the ambulances include: Agnes. Alio . Barbara. Clara, Edith. Elizabeth, Gert rude. Isabel. Jessie. Katharine, Laura, Margaret. Mary. Nellie, Olive. Ruth. Sarah, Violet and Winifred. Each car will bear the same name as that of the girls and women who have contributed toward it: thus all money collected from -women named Josephine -will so into the purchase of the Josephine am bulance. v? . OeC" 37 la" : a.?