Word: mindoro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philippines. A cable from Manila told of the purchase of the Mindoro Sugar Co. by Most Reverend Michael O'Doherty. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, for $1,500,000. This news betokened the continued potency of the Church in the only Christian country in the Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church...
...Philippines of President Coolidge, leisurely journeyed on as usual after leaving Damaghete, Occidental Negros, where, as in the other southern islands, special orders had been given that fat and lean Filipino females should cease chewing betel-nuts, smoking cigars, ambling about naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos...
...walls or bars. The officers in the colony have only three firearms: the superintendent carries an automatic and has a shotgun for hunting, the keeper of the funds also has a pistol. The Colonel found the system ideal, again doffed his helmet, proceeded on his way to Mindoro,* to Sulu, where a sultan reigns, finally past Corregidor† and back into Manila, where he told the press that the only unpleasant part of his sentimental journey had been the parades of febrile natives carrying such signs as "No Bacon sandwich for us"** and many another similar legend. Enterprising Manila politicians...
...Upon Mindoro ("Mine of Gold"), now known as "Malaria Island," are situated the famed Havemeyer sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns...