Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1900, Page 10

o THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1900—22- PAGES, New Taxex in the Sulus. Spain, Germany and was established in the When yw terminated ng in force y our troops the gradually in put ports « cations from the Spanish regu- prevails throughout the rest ines. Major Sweet said on “There are no Moro mer- ‘The Chenos (Chinese) merchant class of the east. They, of course, shift the weight of the uty as far as possible upon the Moros. I have recommended to Gen. Oti of the duty on rice for one year. Disease has swept away the cattle which are used to cultivate the soil of the fsland, and the people must have cheap imported rice in order to live. “The sultana, the sultan's mother, who been of service to us through her good will toward the Americans and through her influence with her son, has asked the ex- clusive right to introduce Chinese tobacco into the Sulu archipelago. This request is in pursuance of the Spanish custom of creating such monopolies and of selling | them or parceling them out among favor- ites. It is entirely inconsistent with the American system and had, of course, to be dented. ‘The sultana, to whom Major Sweet thus referred, is an intelligent, witty and very interesting woman. Unfortunately, she ts ld and infirm, and has not the strength to exercise frequently her undoubted influ- ence with the sultan. ‘The Sultane’s “Voice-Engine.” Gen. Bates had a phonograph purchased for the sultana, which Major Sweet sent to her. This machine talked Moro, repeat- ing several passages from the Koran, and conversations in the same language con- cerning affairs in which the sultana was interested. The effect upon the royal au- dience when the phonograph began to de- clare itself in Moro is reported to have been tremendous. In view of the boyish enthusiasm of the learned and dignified members of the American Academy of Sciences as they Mstened with curtosity Years ago to the metallic outgivings of the perforated tin-foll of the first Edison phono- graph in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, any open-mouthed wonder dis- played by semi-savages at a similar cx- perience could well be pardoned. The sul- tana expressed her appreciation of the phonograph in a letter written In Arabic and marked by her scal, which reads as follows: “This letter from your sister the Sultana Inchy Jamela to my brother the Briga- ier General John Bates, and to Major Sweet, the governor of Tiangy. I beg to inform my brothers that the voice-engine you made me a present of has reached me, and that I shall look upon it as an heirloom. I am very grateful to you for the brotherly way you are treating me. You have placed me in your heart and I Will also place you in my heart. I beg to send you my best wishes, and may God repay you for your kindness toward me Written this 16th day of the moon Raja ar 13 y upon them. A Royal New Year's Greeting. i not ¢] a is only ready the end of December, through Major ing for has which priety “This ar's gre 1900 which may High- amad Jamalul Sweet, (Jolo) ew Year's the United my brothe and the z you of the flag for If I can you a visit of the moon ar 1 Sweet at the powerful st to Jolo and nd effec friend of with n idea of the & question of the vi na firm remission | A DATTO AND OTHER MORO-AMERICANS. with the ingredients for betel chewing, to which the datto had frequent recourse. While he sat smoking a belated member of his retinue or a messenger entered the room, and collapsed prostrate on the floor in front of his e feet before venturing to address him. Finally the interpreter arrived. and through him I expressed my pleasure at meeting so powerful a datto and so good a friend of the Americans. Calvi replied: “I am not the most powerful of the dattos. The sultan fs over all. But I am a friend of peace and of right.” I asked him what message he would like to send to the American President and peo- ple through The Star. He answered: “I am not the sultan. I cannot speak with full authority. But my message for my own people would be to call attention to the burden placed upon them by the import and export duties which the American govern- ment has recently imposed. These duties have increased the price, in some cases doubling or trebling it, of everything which my people buy—sugar, sarongs, rice, tobac- co, gambier, matches, etc., etc.—rendering it almost impossible for the poor man to live. What he has to sell is cheapened by the export duty. If this taxation continues it will be necessary for the Moros to raise the prices of whatever they make or collect for sale—as copra, hemp, pearis and shells, co- ceanuts and frults of all sorts.” The fact was here developed that Maj. Sweet had recommended remission of the duty on rice. Datto Calvi expressed gratl- fication that this concession had been rec- ommended, and hoped that the same course would be followed in respect to the other articles. He was pleased to have the op- portunity of conveying his thoughts to the American people. Minor Cases on the Governor of Jolo's Docket. Datto Calvi then discussed with Maj. Sweet several minor id personal causes of complaint, which may be noted as of inter- est in disclosing the kind of questions in- volving responsib: which come before American officers and military governors in the southern Philippin Calvi set forth that fn a visit to an Amer- ican transport before Maj. Sweet came to Jolo a kris had been stolen from him and | t the officer in ct ming him) cover the kris or to secure for hi a either afr smoking. a clean cut mulatto face ! tive expression. He straight black * members of the were has | cropped mustache and goat iscolored thir He w footed. He wore Ss Moro business su a thin gauze shirt, tight-fit drawers for trousers and sever: circum- | ferences of many-colored scarfs at his | waist. He carried the inevitable kris and | wor at h seal ring on his little finger beari Close was a boy s not | now at Jolo. Cal anxious to get | either the kris or the rifle before the mat- ter had passed from memory. Maj. Si t this was the first | time that he rd of Calvi's I that } he would tion and inquire en re- covered, and rot been found, that would ase it was proper to do in the m Calv during the latter days of the cupation « Chinaman who had married his Vilipino slave owed him (Calvi) a debt. and had promised that if this Filipina woman ceased to be his wife she shouid become the datto's property in A JOLO BABY CARRIAGE. away from the Chinaman (who was no longer at Jolo), and had married a Filipino. Calvi wanted from this latest husband either the money of the debt or the woman, whom he viewed as security for it. Maj. Sweet said that he could not under- take to straighten difficulties which oc- curred during the Spanish occupation; but that he would cause Inquiry to be made of the Filipino husband to see whether he was Jolo Policemen. willing and able to pay something under the circumstances. Some of Calvi's people had committed murder and robbery and fled to Sandakan, in north Borneo. Calvi wanted a pass which would enable him or his agent to go to Sandakan and get redress in the Borneo court. The pass was promised him. Finally, Calvi explained to Maj. Sweet, in verbal response to a ‘etter written to him concerning some government horses which AMERICANS. been stol that he had made every of the hors but that were not to be found; that he did not believe they were taken by his people, but if to get trac this turned out to be the case they would be returned and the thieves punished. Further discussion of the matter devel- oped the interesting fact that a follower of one of the sultan’s immediate people had stolen some horses from one of Calvi's re- taimers: that redress been demanded in vain, and that in retaliation horses from the sultan's immediate jurisdiction had been taken by some of Calvi's people. Retallatory Robbery. Such quarrels over cattle, characterized by reprisals in robbery, are very apt to lead to bloodshed, and Maj. Sweet has endeav- ored to enact under such circumstances the role of a peacemaker. . In spite of Calvi's protestations in his in- terview with me of subordination to his over-lord, the sultan, he and his brother, Joakinine, whose district adjoins that of Calvi, are by common report almost at the point of open rupture with that potentate. The combined forces of the two brothers are believed to be at least equal to those which the sultan can control. Joakinine is a famous fighter and general among the Moros. Calvi is the statesman, the speaker, the wise adviser. Calvi makes a far better impression upon one as a man of brains and force than the sultan himself. One of the supposed objects of the sul- tan’s visit two days ago to Jolo, when he reviewed the troops and held a reception on the transport in the harbor, was to dis- cuss with Maj. Sweet the same question of customs dues about which Calvi spoke. But the sultan is not credited with desiring to benefit his subjects by anything that he does or proposes. Most of his public acts are attributed to mercenary motives, to the desire for personal gain, regardless of his people. While he held Siassi by surrender on the Part of the Spaniards before the Americans had appeared in the archipelago he made the most excessive and outrageous assess. ments. In many ways the Americans have cut down his opportunities for filling his pockets at the expense and to the injury of both foreigners and Moros, and he does not especially love us. The opinion concerning the sultan’s cupid- ity is so general that it was openly and contemptuously expressed by Datto Mandi, the Mindanao chief who was so efficient « factor in bringing Zamboanga under Amer- ican control. When told by Colonel Pettit, the energetic commanding officer at Zam- boanga, that the sultan had recently visited Jolo he gave to his fingers the significant movement of one who handles coin and asked disdainfull For this Mindanao Hepudiates the Sulu Sultan. Datto Mandi isthe, most attractive and apparently the mést forceful of the dattos whom I met, making a better impression even than Calvi. He has Spanish blood in his veins and has tisited Madrid and Barce- lona. He has a strong, smooth-shaven face, a curving nose anf a Keen eye. He makes no pretense of recognizing the authority of the Sulu sultat, either as a political or religious leader. ‘4Whéh questioned on the subject of allegiance. to the sultan he scoffed at the very id@a. The other dattos of Mindanao are; it ts reliably reported, equally outspoken in denying the claims of the Sultan of Sulu. Mandi is a force to be taken into ac- count in Moro affairs. In company with Colonel Pettit I met him and talked with him in the new village which his people are building on the site of that which was de- stroyed during the fighting at the time of the Spanish evacuation of Zamboanga, and in front of the large house which he is constructing for himself. He claims con- trol of northwest Mindanao from Zam- boanga to Dapitan. When I expressed gratification at making the acquaintance of one who had proved himself by deeds so valuable a friend of the Americans he reciprocated courteously the exptession of pleasure at the meeting and added: “I am now an American myself.” Suggestions of Policy. A few conclusions, based upon what one sees and hears hera, impress themselves as obviously reliable, even upon the casual, hasty observer, who can penetrate but little beneath the surface of things. It is evident, for instance, that an agree- ment with the Sultan of Sulu will not suf- fice to bind in amity more than a fraction of our half million Moros in the Philippines, and that rupture of this tentative agree- ment will not be absolutely certain to ren- der hostile more than th? same fraction. It follows that the simple, verbal under- standings reached by Gen. Bates and his subordinates with Mindanao sultans and dattos, and also with some of the Sulu dattos, are as valuable in their way and should be followed up as carefully as th more elaborate written agreement with the Sulu sultan, which requires the red tape accompaniments of a treaty, is submitted for consideratjon and approval by th2 Sen- ate, and, when approved, becomes a bind- ing record, flxing the sultan’s treaty-mak- ing status. It follows, further, that we should cultivate friendly relations and se- cure and retain strong influence over all the sultans and dattos, not making formal written conventions with them (unless it is absolutely essential, as appeared to be the case in dealing with the Sulu sultan while the Tagalog revolt was at its height), and neither unduly magnifying th2 latter sul- tan to the detriment of the other chiefs, with the result of inflaming his vanity and avarice and of rendering him doubly diffi- cult to deal with, nor unwisely depreciating his religious and political influence, with the result of upturning friendly relations and of precipitating hostilities, which, while crushing the sultan, would be bloody and protracted. It appears that a discrimination must be made in laws and form of government be- tween Moroland and the rest of the Philip- pines. The conditions ure entirely different in the two sections. Legislation which would be wholesome in one would threaten immediate war in the other. Go Slowly in Reconstructing the Moro To withdraw from the southern Philip- pines and to wash our hands of respons! bility for th> control of them fs apparently an impossible alternative. If we hold the islands (as we wil) we must, however, ex our authority in such a way as to life and premote happiness on both of the Pacific and to spread the bless- of civilization in such fashion that do not become curses to our bene- ficiaries. Slavery is hateful to the American idea. Unmistakable slavery, though of the mild feudal typ>, exists in the southern Philip- pines. Shall we abolish it off-hand, shed- ding American blood to reconcile the Moros to what they will look upon as confiscation of their property? Or shall we proceed cau- tiously and peaceably to eradicate the evil, perhaps through some moderate measure of compensated cmane!pation, such as that which with many safeguards of cconomy s put in operation by the Dutch In Java? Polygamy 1s antagonistic to American “Why did he come? sentiment. It f art of the religion of Mahomet and prevails among the compara tively wealthy few in our Mahometan ts- lands. Shall we bring on “a holy war’ in the Philippines by demanding the immedi- ate eradication of polygamy and the exodus from the harems of all but wife No. 1? Or shall we follow the example of exceed- ing forbearance set by other Christian na- tions with Asiatic and Mahometan depen- dencies and our own precedent in winking for a time at the social customs of the American Indians? Polygamy is a luxury of the rich, Education and contact with civilization wi. r2nder it more and more expensive every year, will steadily increase the discontent among the plural wives, and will doubtless gradually abolish the evil cf many simultaneous wives by driving men to our own superior system of many wives in succession through the operation of our lax marriage and divorce laws. If we decide that the immediate extirpa- tion of neither slavery nor polygamy from the Philippines is worth the shedding of a drop of American blood, we may also con- clude with advantage to go slowly at first in regard to the imposition of unaccustom- ed taxes upon the Moros. An export tax in practical effect reduces the price of what they sell; an import tax fs made to increase: the price of what they buy. The Chinese middleman with the duties as a pretext swindles the Moro by making the reduction of the selling price and the Increase of the buying price respectively much more than the amount of the duty in each case. The military authorities will doubtless find a way of preventing this tmposition. In re- gard to the equities of taxation, it is, of course, to be remembered that American occupation brings and will continue to bring to the Moros trade, prosperity, circu- lation of money ;and enlargement of tax- paying capacity and that the islands must as soon as possible produce the revenues necessary to megt. the expense of their economical government, But it is far more important for the immediate present that the Moro should pot agnceive the idea that he is being taxed and oppressed in novel ways to which eVén the Spantards did not resort, than that'fungs should be secured for public improyemenfs in the Sulu archi- pelago, which can well wait that more con- venient season wien all will be quiet in the Philippines. | THEOBORE W. NOYES. SECRETARY HAY, COMPLIMENTED. 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The board recommended a change in regard to the sea duties of marines, by providing that hall not be assigned to duty with the and secondary batteries. Secretary Long disapproved the recommendation as not in the best interests of the service. The marines have always done brilliant work at the guns, and their marksmanship and fighting qualities on shipboard were finely demonstrated in the Philippines and in the West Indies during the Spanish war. They will continue to occupy posts of honor be- hind the guns. + 2+—_______ Japan’s Crown Prince Betrothed.. United States Minister Buck, at Toky: has informed the State Department that it has been officially announced that his impe- rial highness, the crown. prince, is be- trothed to Princess Sakado of the ancient and famous Fujiwara family. 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