Word: moro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
...bill is premised on the fact that the two races in the Philippines, Filipinos (Christian) and Moros (Mohammedans) differ temperamentally and every other way, that the Moros being in the minority are trampled on by the Filipino majority, that the periodic Moro uprisings come from no other cause. It proposes in the name of not only wisdom but justice that the Moro part of the Islands be given a separate government under the U. S.-in brief that U. S. try to solve the Philippine problem as the British solved the problem of Ireland. But General Aguinaldo as a good...
...What is Congressman Bacon's solution of the Moro problem...
...desired to marry a provincial officer, one Datu Tahil, who was unable to offer a royal dowry. The Sultan explained to Tarhata that the match was beneath his dignity. She incontinently left his harem. Following this incident the Princess Emme declared her intention of marrying a Filipino. The proud Moro eyes of the Sultan shot lightnings. He did not deign to explain that his daughter could not marry a dog of a Christian. She too left the Sultanic residence...