Word: mindanao
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...school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise, the Moros dislike both the Filipino and U. S. regimes but of the two prefer the U. S. Emissary Thompson had abundant evidence of this as he landed at Dansalan, Mindanao, where by onetime Filipino Legislature Representative Dau Tunpugao he was likened to "the rising sun" and told "we want to be governed from the beginning to the end of time by the Americans." Governor General Leonard Wood had been there three days before, had left without waiting for the Emissary...
...Bearing in mind the 25,000,000 acres of fertile land on Mindanao, "In 15 years the United States could become independent of the British rubber monopoly, provided the land laws of the Philippine Islands are revised to encourage American investments in an extensive...
Moros. Senator Hadjib Butu, representing Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago (where Moros predominate), also visited Oracle Thompson. He promised to introduce him to the Sultan of Sulu when he traveled southward; he told how Mohammedan Moros preferred U. S. rule to that of Christian Filipinos. Said Senator Butu: "The situation we face reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brethren in your Bible. The Moro looks up to the American as his father and upon the Filipino as his brother. Because of the love between Joseph and his father, his brothers threw him into a pit and left...
When he lately introduced a bill in Congress for partitioning the Philippines and establishing a second native government under the U. S. control in the islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Siassi, Tawi Tawi and a few others, Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
Last week Mr. Bacon read into the Congressional Record what sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands...