Identifier: philippinelifein00lero (find matches)
Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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years main-tained itself, his liking for feeling himself to bean independent proprietor if in fact he is noteconomically independent, and the jealousy of theFilipino masses, as well as the upper class,toward the entrance of outsiders as landholders.On the whole, even if these things tend torestrict agricultural progress, they are encourag-ing signs. It is far from safe to predict that theFilipinos will not remain under the new rigime apeople of peasant proprietors. But if they do, itmust be by virtue of the more general spread ofintelligence and by a display of individualismun-Oriental in degree and kind. The old sort ofeconomic slavery cannot long prevail under theold forms, which are breaking down. Whetherthe Filipinos as a race are fit to resist the rivetingupon them of a new economic slavery, more bene-ficent in its workings but also more complete inits scope, is for themselves to show. As already seen, the waters yield the Filipinosfood scarcely less than the land. Except in the
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Typical Filipino Community 91 few interior districts that are away from therivers, mostly inhabited by savages or unin-habited, every Filipino is more or less of a fisher-man. It is, however, also a regular calling, asthe multiplication of varieties of fish-nets, traps,corrals, etc., would indicate. The ingenuitydisplayed in these devices, and generally the in-dustry displayed by the fisherman during hishours of labour, are not compatible with a de-scription of the Filipinos as lazy and incompe-tent. In some of the waters of the archipelago,fishing for pearls and the gathering of slugs,shells, etc., constitute small export industries. There remains to be treated the third importantaspect of the life of the Filipino community, viz.,the political. This has two phases, the old andthe new, and is so intimately related with otherfeatures of Filipino life that it is left to be broughtout in connexion therewith. In particular, it isinter-related with the theocratic rule of the pastin the isl

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