The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1902, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL o — — o * ON THE PEACE QUESTION. ‘That’'s what I believe ought to be done with the Filipino. He ought to be spanked, and spanked hard.” | s *The country is full of these cranks and /« ] suited t s, and - Gemagogues, who keep things stirred np J v t opportunities the Phillb- .3 ¢the time. Of course if the Government ov n they would come ides, there's money in it for control. like any cheap n their money is gone ey disappear for a while until they e to get hold of more. re is going to be trouble when the s g0 over there and ask for fran- nd begin to buy up large tracts i for railroads and otper improve- The Filipinos would never build till the crack of doom. They In't even form a company. And when a Americans go there they are going to ible because the Filipinos will The Americ think thev are trying to get the uypes use he wan If I bad a d that wanted to play I wouldn't give it ke him k him. And o be d to be veral wa ques E whether he wa i mocr If one rocked work 1 of good. education and good blem may work e, however, that not and troops should be t two or three years. General Wheaton, who I_~ done more other officer the army shouid nted the y show them- ng it. It is well thelr municipal office in my opinion if there ;. was form of ‘government 1t v T generation r ply appoint officers from 1 mise the fran- eration. Thus they w me by degrees into self govern- 1d be dealt with the agitators. Under a government these would force, whereas the Civil ssion secks to quiet them by mild hand of them. Land titles are in awful shape. There {s a perfect tangle of claims, some of them without any foundation whatever. Large tracts were conflscated under the insurgent regime, but the people have no titic to the land. A5 to the business opportunities in the Philippines, in my opinion the best chance cf making money is in bullding railroads, electric lines, or in big sugar plantatons and the erection of large sugar mills. A zood many men have been b#ying up lands for the purpose of raising sugar. “‘But there is nothing there for the man with, say, a thousand dollars. If he has $000 he might do well eriough ralsing bemp, rice or cocoanuts. There are thou- sands of tons of copra, or dried cocoa- ruts, shipped from the Philippines and the South Sea Islands cvery year. Most of it goes to France, where the oil Is ex- ' THE PLUCKY AMERICAN GENERAL WHO CAPTURED AGUINALDO WHEN OTHERS HAD FAILED. tracted and used in the manufacture of fiter qualities of soap. This makes the ralsing of cocoanuts one of the principal industries. “Americans could either become plan- ters or buy the product from native plan-. ters. “But the man with capital will find himself serlously handicapped by the la- bor problem. He cannot take American laborers over there because Americans cannot work steady at heavy manual I bor in that country. O course, thewcan act as foremen and overseers, but the natives are so unreliable. They are an improvident lot, much addicted to gam- bling and going to cockfights. They al- ways ‘want to knock off on feast days, and there is an endiess number of these in their calendar. They'll work on Sun- day all right, but not on feast days. Money is no inducemc.t to them. Within about a year and a half after the Amerl- cans gained control of the islands some- thing like $2,000,000 was spent on public roads and highways, and there was the greatest difficulty in getting natives to do the work, although they were paid 50 cents a day, while the best they had ever known was 15 or 20 cents a day In Span- ish times. “There has been a demand for a lim- ited number of mechanics in the railroad 'FOR THE MONEY-MAKER. | “There 1s nothing there for the man ! with, sag, $1000. If he has $5000 he | might do well enough.” 8 G shops in Manila and the shops of the In- terisland steamship companies; also as engineers arnd firemen on the river steam- ers. Good mechanics command better wages there than here, but there are a good many mechanics among the dis- charged soldiers, and when you take into consideration that,there are now in Ma- nila between eight and nine thousand clvilians who have been discharged from the army, you will see that there are about enough of them to take care of most of the smaller business openings, A good many of them hold civil positions under the civil government and a good many more of them are in the saloon business, I'm sorry to say, not only in Manila but in the provinces. *It does not seem to me there Is much, if any opportunity, there for professional men, There are some alleged lawyers there, and most of them are making money, but their methods are, as a rule, rather questionable. Most of them ars busy scaring up trouble éver land titles and there is a good deal of pettifogging. “A3 for physicidns, most of the Amerl- cans there go to the army doctors. There are two or three docters now in private practice who were army surgeons and there is little opportunity for others. #There has been a pretty fair oppor- tunity for stenographers, but the demand has not exceeded the supply. They have three very good newspapers in Manila, which have improved a good deal in ths past year, but they are necessarily con- fined to local news, as the high cable tolls prevent many messages from the States. “The school teachers that went over have had hard time of it and are very much discouraged. Some of them went out into towns where there are no Amer- lcan troops. “'One of the worst troubles the: in getting enough to eat outside of Manila. In Manila it is easy enough now to get things to eat, if you can for fhem. But anywhere outside of Ma and Tlotlo about the only food to be had is rice, sweet potatoe ve is chickens, fish and fruits. This may seund weil enough to one who n at and noth- ing else. There Is nelther beef nor mut- ton to be had in any of the inland towns except that furnished at the army posts, and an American finds it hard to get along without meat. never tricg to live on t “And the monotony of the life inland is almost' intolerable. Mall comes only once In two weel ks or per! s once a ruonth, which makes it six weeks or two months old from the States. There are no amusements and it is not much wonder the men drink. They do it to pass away the time. As to the effect of lauor on men in that climate, it Is difficult to say One would have to know how much a man was in the habit of drinking here and the effect it had on him to know whether the effect is worse there, as is often stated. “A few of the soldlers drink the native liquors—tuba, distilled from cocoanut bloscoms; vino, distilled from rice, ana the native rum, distilied from sugar cane. But now there Is American beer almost everywhere throughout the island ana American liquors: so few Americans drink those native liquo which are pure poison. ‘“Where there were formerly two or three thousand drinking places in Manila, there are now but three or four hundred, though I doubt if there i3 less liquor sold. Formerly every fruit stand and small store sold things to drink, but since a high license went into effect the little fel- lows have been shut out. “But after all, I don't think the public morals arc a whit worse than in any blg city in the States. ? ‘The best opening I know of in a small way, and about the only one, would be for a line of men's furnishing goods. Yes, and 1 think an American dry goods store would do well. Nearly all the retalil stores are kept by Spaniards and Filipinos and they charge outrageous prices for their §90ds. They have threce sets of prices; one for the Spanish trade, one for the Fill- pinos and one for Americans, which is just about double that of the Spanish. They do not handle any goods of Amer- fcan manufactu though the new tariff may cha somewha! But I think an Amert ary goods store would do well “There is now in Manila an American shoe shop with all American workmen and they have all they can do. I understand en American has jus¢ gone over with a complete equipment for a steam laundry and he will undoubtedly make a great deal of mo! There is no one there to do the washing but the native women and they ruin the clothes rubbing them on the rocks at the river. “But such openings as these are limited in number. However, any one who has a few thousand dollars, say from $5000 up, and who wants to go and stay, not trust- ing the bu: to some one else, may make more m than he can here, but he must make up his mind to live under n't take his to run the t tell why it is, n and children do not seem to thrive there. It is hot all the year round. Never as hot as I have seen it in Kansas nor as hot as it gets in the San Joaquin Valley here in summer, but al- ways hot and enerva. ople seem to suffer from impoverished blood. A s have gone in and opened up by lding rail- them. I can roads there wi for other people. But fc would not adv man to give up a sure thing in this cou pin nces in the Philip~ Queer Stuffs Used for Medicine. HEN the dear general public e curiously written doc- scription to the drug- fortunate thing general pub- dients of some lic doesn’t know of the drugs prescribed.” So spoke an old-school doctor the other evening. Two or < allopaths and a couple of homeepaths were in the room, me of the laymen scoursed on the “We of the old school riptions— nimals. Yet For in- taken from sed as a stimu- ans have failed. Absolutely pure musk is hard to get, and an ounce, too, we sin—which comes from a hog's and pan- creatin, which cemes glands of a sheep’s neck. Then we use suprarenal es for indigestion—and the sheep give us these, too. in the main we depend on the vegetable for our medicines.” started. He told American toad ne. The live ani- cork by four strong pins stuck thiough the webs of of an induction r pon the sal glands, rn knife, of one ¢ milk. s not have ty. Itts hen its saliva = 1 with a fe m its on of cer s from a copperhead snake s used with good r Its in throat affections. and r venom s used for a va- riet e snike Is chloroformed and the } nd tetween the ear and ed. The venom drops on r of milk and is then pre- emists for the doctors. the eyc pulveriz 0 a well-known » the common potato > bug's Latin name fis ats, and written out formidable drug in- t s crushed and cov- ered with five parts of its weight of al- ed into a bottle, eight days and s a deed. The live Ins put shaken twice a day. The commoh ant 1s also used in medi- cine, and so Is the much-hated bedbug. A tincture from this latter insect.is used with good cffect to remove & clogged-up on of the nat- condition of the ears by r ural wax which forms there. Dr. Wahle of Germany was the t to find a medt- cinal use for the bedbug. Animals and insects in plenty and “odd gs"" help m n thi ut of many a tight hole. A list by no means complete ine cluded the black spider found in Curaeao, the Spanish fly, the roe from the carp, ordinary spider’s web, crawfish, the cock- roach, the morning glery plant, the oil beetle, the common skunk, sometimes po- Htely known as the polecat, and the stinging wasp. Nearly every plant that grows has its own peculiar value to medicine, but It has been only In recent ycars that the animals have added their mites to the help of the doctor and the chemist.—FPhiladeiphia Press,