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| Jacob Gould Schurman. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, September 14, 1899.
PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS.
Actual Facts of the Situation All Over the Archipelago.
PROFESSOR SCHURMAN TALKS.
He Gives Out a Statement of What He Learned in the Philippines—Vastness of the Archipelago—Over Sixty Different Languages Are Spoken By Natives.
ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Professor Schurman returned to his office in Cornell university. He gave out the following statement on Philippine affairs:
"It is very important that the public should know the actual facts of the situation. Things are what they are, and the American public should understand them, whether they agree with or run counter to the public's wishes.
"First, it requires some effort to realize the vastness of the archipelago, which extends in triangular form from Formosa to Borneo and Celebes sea through 16 degrees of latitude. Never going out into the Pacific ocean on the east nor the Chica sea on the west, I made a circuit of 2,000 miles all south of Manila. This gives some idea of the difficulty of maintaining an effective blockade, as the coast line of all the islands embraced in the archipelago is many more thousands of miles.
"Second, the multiplicity and heterogeneous nature of the tribes is something astounding. Over 60 different languages are spoken in the archipelago and though the majority of the tribes are small, there is at least half a dozen, each having over a quarter of a million members. The languages of these people are as distinct from another as French and Spanish or Italian, so that the speech of any one tribe is unintelligible to its neighbors. These tribes are all civilized and Christianized, but small uncivilized tribes among whom the Igorrates seem best known to America, inhabit the mountains of Luzon and form a large part of the population of Minandindo [sic]. In this island also there is a large Mohammedon population, which is independent of the Mohammedans in the neighboring Sulu archipelago.
"Third, it is the Tagalogs that inhabit some of the provinces about Manila who are resisting the authority of the United States. Other civilized Filipinos are neutral, except where they are coerced by armed bands of Tagalogs, who seized upon their governments during the making and the ratification of our treaty of peace with Spain. It would be incorrect to assume, however, that these tribes are allies of ours. They are not. Indeed, they are not without suspicion of the white race, of which they have had experience only through Spain. But they are men of intelligence and property and the masses, when not stirred up by the Tagalogs, recognize the advantage to them of American sovereignty, and so remain passively neutral, although robber bands from time to time descend from the mountains to plunder and burn the estates of the peaceful inhabitants on the plains.
"Fourth, the insurrection, though serious enough as experience has proven, is not a national uprising. Indeed, there is no Philippine nation. As I have already said, there is a multifarious collection of tribes having only this in common, that they belong to the Malayan race. The inhabitants of the archipelago no more constitute a nation than the inhabitants of the continent of Europe do.
"Fifth, the United States, having assumed, by a treaty of peace with Spain, sovereignty over the archipelago, became responsible for the maintenance of peace and order, the administration of justice, the security of life and property, among all the tribes of the archipelago. This is an obligation which intelligent Filipinos, not less than foreign nations, expect us to fulfill. Nor will the national honor permit us to turn back. In taking the Philippine Islands, we annexed great responsibility. The fact that the responsibility is heavier than most people supposed it would be is no excuse for failure to discharge it. I repeat that the Philippine question is essentially a question of national honor and obligation."
In reply to an inquiry whether anything was now left but to fight it out, President Schurman said:
"In my opinion much good would be done by a declaration on the part of congress of the form of government to be established in the Philippine Islands, or better still, let congress establish a government for the Philippine Islands and have it put in force in all parts and among all tribes hostile to the United States. This would serve several purposes. It would distinguish between our friends and our enemies and treat the former according to their deserts. It would also give to our enemies an ocular demonstration of free government on the American plan a very important point when it is remembered that the Tagalogs claim to be fighting for their liberty. And I had better call attention to the fact that the government which is well adapted to one tribe may need considerable modification to be available for another."
Asked about the capacity of the Filipino peoples to govern themselves, President Schurman replied that they had no experience in self-government except in municipal affairs, and even these were subject to the control of the Spanish authorities. He thought, however, that each tribe might, subject to the supervision of a wise general government, manage in the main its own municipal and provincial affairs. Supervision from Manila would vary with the position which the different tribes occupied in the scale of civilization.
President Schurman seemed firm in the conviction that some form of home rule for each of the tribes and under the watchful supervision of the general government at Manila was the solution of the governmental problem in the Philippines.
"I have great confidence in the people of the Philippines Islands," he added, "and much sympathy for their aspirations. A race should be judged by its best products and an educated Filipino of whatever tribe, and each city has its educated men, will bear comparison with an educated man of any other race. Among the masses, one often finds consciousness of ignorance and strong desire for education. The archipelago will not be revolutionized in a generation as Japan has been in some respects, but then Japan had thousands of years of national civilization behind her recent transformation. Nevertheless, considering the marked intellectual capacity of the Filipinos and their admirable domestic and personal virtues, imagination cannot easily set the limits to their progressive achievements under the inspiration of American civilization, and while American sovereignty means this blessing to the Filipinos, it is beyond all doubt the one thing which can save the archipelago from division and appropriation by the great nations of Europe. The United States will hold it together and with the American democratic ideas, train and elevate the people to an ever increasing measure of self-government."
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| Walter Wellman. |
WALTER WELLMAN BETTER.
He Will Be Able to Return to America in About Three Weeks.
LONDON, Sept. 14.—Walter Wellman, the leader of the Wellman polar expedition, who arrived in this city Aug. 28 after successful explorations in Franz Josef Land, has undergone the first surgical operation for straightening his right leg, which was seriously injured by Mr. Wellman falling into a snow-covered crevasse while leading his party. It resulted in the successful loosening of the sinews.
Another operation is necessary, but the attending surgeons say they expect to save the leg and that Mr. Wellman will be able to return to America in three weeks.
The explorer will deliver an address before the British association Tuesday, descriptive of his recent expedition.
Addressed Ten Thousand People.
WALTON, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Governor Roosevelt while here was the guest of Judge Sewell. A public dinner was given in his honor at the armory, where the governor met the county officials and prominent citizens. In the afternoon he made a speech at the fair grounds before 10,000 people. At 2 o'clock he left for Oneonta.
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| Elihu Root. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Proper Reform.
Secretary Root has instituted one reform in the administration of the war office, the marvel of which is that it was left for him to introduce it. He has closed the door to reporters and the world upon tests, and results of tests, of inventions from which benefit to the service of the nation is anticipated. Previous to his coming into the cabinet the trials of high explosives, of their uses in projectiles, the trials of guns and gun carriages, their disposition in forts, and everything pertaining to coast defenses, armor and gun improvements, have been described in the newspapers. The world had the benefit. The military experts of foreign governments are always alive to advances in the art of war—offensive or defensive—and it often has happened that discoveries in the United States were in use in Europe as quickly as here. Secretary Root has put a stop to this. At the recent trial of a new explosive at Sandy Hook reporters were courteously but rigidly excluded and officers attending were impressed that silence about what they saw was necessary. The official reports on the tests were considered by the ordnance and fortifications board in Washington Monday. The statement of which fact is all that is made public. If always this reticence had been practiced the nation's defenses could be in much better condition than they are, for Europe would not possess as effective agents of offensive warfare as it does at present. Our army and navy authorities have opened forts and yards to the inspection of foreign experts, but usually have not received like courtesies abroad. Secretary Root is doing a good work in impressing the importance of secrecy in these matters.
Commissioners Called Home.
MANILA, Sept. 14.—Col. Charles Denby and Professor Dean Worcester, members of the Philippine commission, have received instructions from President McKinley asking them to return as soon as possible. They will embark on the steamer Empress of India, which sails from Hong Kong Sept. 26.
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| Keator & Wells, Sanborn fire insurance map, 1902. |
BURGLARS AND PISTOLS.
Six Shots Fired by Night Watchman at Keator & Wells [in Cortland].
Eben Canfield, the night watchman at the Keator & Wells wagon factory, is having lots of fun these nights lately. A few weeks ago he and the night watchman at the Wallace Wallpaper Co., Edward Canfield, had the pleasure of choking two hoboes who were trying to build a fire in close proximity to the exterior wooden wall of the wagon factory. The hoboes then took French leave and have not since been heard from.
A week ago Mr. Canfield says he found some intruders in the machine shop of the factory, but before he could reach them they took to their heels and never stopped to wish him a pleasant evening.
Last night at about 11:30 o'clock Mr. Canfield was walking along the outside of the main building at the factory, preparatory to entering at a certain door for his next tour of inspection when he heard a noise inside as of some one stumbling over an obstruction. He at once hurried over to the wallpaper factory to get the other Canfield who, by the way, is not related to him in any way.
Together they returned, each having a lantern and a revolver. They went quietly through the machine shop on the first floor and up to the trim shop above. As soon as they opened the door of this shop and the light shone in Mr. Canfield says they heard two men run toward the stairs beyond. They started in hot pursuit, and called to the men to stop. The intruders had dark lanterns, but they were nearly closed and gave little light. The men stumbled over several things on the way through the shop. Two shots were fired at the fugitives as they started to run, two more as they reached the head of the stairs, and two more as they ran through the machine shop below. But in the dark the running men were not a very good mark and there is no reason to think that they were hit. They escaped through a door at the south end of the building into Venette-st. and disappeared.
Mr. Canfield says he could not identify them again were he to see them, except that one was tall and slim, and the other shorter and more fleshy. He thinks they were after the upholstering cloth, a large quantity of which was stored in the trim shop.
THE SALVATION ARMY
To Celebrate its Annual Harvest Festival.
The Salvation Army harvest Thanksgiving festival is to take place this year from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Preparations are on foot to make the occasion one of signal success in this town. A series of appropriate meetings are being arranged by the local corps which promises to be of special interest and attraction. Staff Captain and Mrs. Wm. Barker, the general secretary of the New York chief division, will take prominent parts in these meetings.
We shall be able to give more detailed information with respect to the program in a later issue. The work which this organization has carried through, and the success which has attended its dealings with the more outcast and forlorn commands the appreciation of all who sympathize with the moral and spiritual needs of the people. No doubt many of these will avail themselves of this opportunity of showing their confidence in such praiseworthy efforts.
The Salvation Army has set for itself as a goal of financial result the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) which will be devoted to the maintenance and extension of their many beneficent agencies.
All friends and sympathizers who would like to give offerings at this time are earnestly invited to do so and may hand the same to Mr. W. B. Bucklin at the Traction Co. office, 24 Main-st. or at 211/2 Clinton-ave., with Capt. M. Slough, the officer in charge of the local work. If not convenient to leave donation at one of these places, send a card by mail and some one will call at your address if in town or surrounding country. Gifts need not of necessity take the form of monetary contributions. Offerings in kind and of any kind will be equally acceptable. Nothing to eat, wear or look at will be refused.
A DELICATE OPERATION
Performed at Elmira—the Patient Hypnotized and Felt no Pain.
The Elmira Gazette gives the details of a singular performance in that city in which a delicate operation was performed by a local physician [in] which no anesthetics were administered, but the patient was simply hypnotized by a professional hypnotist, and suffered no pain whatever, in fact did not know that the operation had been performed. The Gazette says:
In the sample room of the Langwell hotel last night, surrounded by about fifteen of the leading physicians of the city, invited guests to the number of thirty or more and representatives of the city newspapers, Dr. Frank W. Ross performed the operation of circumcision upon a young man who had been put in a hypnotic state by Santanelli the hypnotist, who is to appear at the Globe theatre during the week. The operation lasted about forty-five minutes and at its conclusion when the patient was brought out of the sleep into which he had been put by Santanelli he declared, and it was evident to all those present, that the operation had been perfectly painless.
Those who were fortunate enough to be present will probably never forget the scene. Imagine the room in the basement, a long table pressed into use as an operating bench, a crowd of fifty men surrounding it, the surgeon in his white suit bending over the patient rapidly cutting and stitching, another physician holding his hand to the boy's head counting the heart beats, and standing at the side of the table, the coolest man in the crowd, Santanelli, carelessly rolling and smoking cigarettes, talking to those near him and every now and then casting a glance at the patient.
No one present will forget for some time the words of the hypnotist as he put the boy to sleep. "Now sleep, deep, deeper, there will be no pain whatever, sleep, sleep, no pain." Several times during the operation Santanelli repeated this, and once when the boy appeared to move and squirm he bent over him and in a deep powerful voice said: "You are asleep. There is no pain, no pain whatever, no pain."
When the operation was over and the boy had awakened, he looked around the room and then laying his head back on the pillow said, "All right, go ahead." There was no doubting the genuineness of his surprise when he was told that it was all over. Dr. Ross spoke in the highest terms of the success of Santanelli and confessed that he started the operation unbelieving that the hypnosis produced would free the subject from all pain, but that he was convinced that the boy had suffered none whatever.
Santanelli is a most wonderful man. There is nothing of the charlatan about him. He is a deep student and has probably studied the subject of hypnotism more than any other man in the business to-day. After the operation he answered a rapid fire of questions for over an hour in a manner which would have satisfied the most skeptical. After that for another hour he talked to the newspaper men, explaining his theories at length.
Tribute to Mrs. Buchanan.
At a regular meeting of Cortlandville grange, No. 461, held in Grange hall, Aug. 28, 1899, the following committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Sister Louisa Buchanan: J. L. Kinney, Nettie M. Phillips, Ella Kinney.
The committee reported the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, In the dispensation of Providence, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst, after many months of suffering, our dear sister Mrs. Louisa Buchanan.
Resolved, That while we deplore the loss of an earnest worker and faithful friend of our order, we mourn not as those without hope.
Resolved, That we extend our deepest sympathy to our bereaved brother and family, and commend them to the same faith which so richly sustained her in her hours of suffering.
Resolved, That these resolutions be published in our county paper, and a copy be presented to the family.
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| Sig Sautelle's circus performers in parade. |
Circus in Homer.
Sautelle's circus has made a date to exhibit in Homer on Thursday, Sept. 21.
MILK STATION CLOSED.
Solon Dairymen Hang Together and Get Better Prices.
The milk station at Solon, owned by Henry Raush of Brooklyn is closed and the patrons who formerly sold their milk to Mr. Raush, are now selling it to Charles Ellis of that town.
During the month of August and up to Sept. 11 the farmers were paid 74 cents per can of forty quarts. Notice was received that after the latter date the price would be 80 cents per can. This did not prove altogether satisfactory and the Five States Milk Producers' association called a meeting of the patrons of the station, including not only members of the association, but patrons not members. The meeting was held last Friday night in Corcoran's hall at Solon, where the situation was discussed quite thoroughly. Mr. Charles Ellis, who owns a cheese factory in the western part of the town, was present at this meeting and offered to purchase the milk at 90 cents per can. About ninety cans per day were being received at the station. Mr. Raush was notified by wire that he could have the milk at this same rate, but he did not accept. The result is that not a drop of milk is being received at the Solon station, and all of the former patrons are drawing their milk to Mr. Ellis. The Solon farmers evidently believe that "in union there is strength," and they seem to be profiting from this belief.
BREVITIES.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, K. T., will meet Friday evening for drill.
—Elmira is making a strong effort to secure the state convention of the Y. M. C. A. which will occur next February.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Hats and caps, page 4; National bank of Cortland, Bank report, page 4.
—The ever popular and progressive Auburn Advertiser has just put on a handsome new dress of type which very materially adds to its customary fine appearance.
—Binghamton merchants are protesting against the rearrangement of divisions on the D., L. & W. R. R. by which a large number of railroad men will be obliged to remove their homes from that city to Elmira. The rearrangement will probably be made just the same though.
—Mr. Robert Bushby, traveling passenger agent of the Grand Trunk railroad, informs The STANDARD that he has not rented offices in the Democrat building as reported a few days ago, but remains in the Harrison building in the offices formerly occupied by the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. into which he recently moved.
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