Identifier: philippineproble00cham (find matches)
Title: The Philippine problem 1898-1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlin, Frederick Carleton, b. 1870
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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There are onehundred and twenty-five thousand membersof the tribe, and their per capita wealth is threehundred and sixty dollars. The Ifugaos, to-gether with all the rest of the wild men of theIslands, hate the Tagalogs with wholesalecordiality, despise them for their low state ofphysical development, and detest them forthe cruelties to which the lowland race has al-ways subjected them, wherever opportunityhas arisen. KThe conditions among some of the Moroshave recently greatly improved. Americanand European capital is being heavily investedamong them in plantations, sawmills, andtimber concessions. The plantations producerubber, coffee, cocoanut, sugar-cane, and rice.The natives work the forests for wax, gutta-percha, nipa, various barks, and the like, anddo an extensive business in button shell, freshfish, pearl shell, vegetables, and fruits. Frenchbuyers are on the ground with offers for allpearls as fast as they are delivered. Cattle,horse, and hog raising are steadily increasing;
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o 2 Ti > s g^ to < < 0) ^ oi D a O Z o f c/^ cr O ^ o hH o Oj (fl J V .n (Z a; rt THE OMNIBUS CLAUSE 165 and as rapidly as possible a complete revolutionhas been worked in sanitary and, therefore, inhealth matters. The danger from infectiousdiseases is now entirely negligible. Mr. Taft and all his successors had urgedthat Congress permit the unlimited free entryinto Island ports of all articles grown, pro-duced, or manufactured in the United States(rice excepted). Their recommendations wereat last adopted in what is designated as thePhilippine Tariff Law of 1909. In the sameyear The Payne Tariff Law reciprocated byadmitting Philippine products or manufactures,except rice, with certain limitations of theamount of sugar, tobacco, and cigars. Of theeffects of these acts we shall speak later. The remarkable showing made near the closeof Chapter Two of the extent to which as earlyas 1903 we had admitted the natives into theirgovernment has been constantly bettered yearby year. I A

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