The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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A PHILIPPINE TRAVELOGUE
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ROMANTIC ISLANDS OF THE FAR
EAST. PICTURES OF THEIR NATUitAL
BEAUTV AND HISTORIC 5«OTS-- BE-
COMING A MECCA FOU TOURISTS AND
A POPULAR WINTER RESORT
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The Zigzag on the Way to Baguio,
#All aboard! Let's go ! We're start-
ing from Manila, the great picturesiiue,
Americanized Oriental city, ami will
travel by automobile "♦iO'.' miles in the
north to Baguio. the summer capital of
Uie Philippines The trip can also be
made by i rain.
We have ahead 01 one of ti ■ most
scenic, spectacular ami thrilling auto-
moblle trips in the world Wo will
have excellent roads all tin' vvaj The
Philippines are, in fact, a paradise for
autolsts, possessing X.f.OO miles of line
rancuda m i zed roa ds.
The (Vrst purl, of the trip us through
typical small towns and then across
the centrnI plain of Luzon .:nd 111nU
several rich and II'- prmbie
where tropica t vegetal ion >-■ at is
best. Here one Is Impressed wiili t!.e
great agricultural wealth « f (lie Philip-
pines, which represents one of (lo-
Bast's greatest producing areas, with
the advantage of Immense natural re-
sources for the development of further
production, it Is regrettably true that
even lit the United States there Is far
from any real understanding of the
potentialities of the Island#.
At some points rice Holds, looking in
(be distance like the greenest of green
towns, stretch away as far as the eye
can see. If you want color, If you
want to feel the romance and mystery
of an Oriental twilight, pass this way
as the red eyed sun at the end of (he
dying day la slowly sinking behind the
encoding expanse of green fields. At
•rat yon cry out in ecstacy at lite
gorgeous scene. Rut as you rids along,
four eyes fastened on the panorama
of tints and colon*, and with the Im
penetrably black frlental night com
to* on fast, you become enthralled.
Too no longer try to express your feel-
tags. Ton cannot. You realise that those
aow fast changing, colorful master-
pieces In the heaven# and on the land-
scape are pictures that no man can ad-
equately deacri!** nor human hands du
plicate. So what's the use of trying1
True, these are but Impressions, tint
the traveloguer considers himself Juste
tod In mentioning them, for they are a
port of the trip to Ilaguio and return
Indeed, the gorgeous sunsets In all
forts of tbe Philippines leave an im-
pression on the mind of the tourist thai
to everlasting.
We leave the palms and tropical
foliage And enter the zone of rugged
fine. We pass from the soft. Incense
laden air of the warm lowlands to the
crisp, Invigorating ozone of the tem-
poral* zone, all within a few hours'
Uae.
For mile after mile the rood now fol-
low# the tortuous course of a river, the
rood lying In the bottom or on the
rocky sides of a granite canyon
The Philippines are rich In hydro-
electric possibilities. This power is the
cheapest power on earth. And it la
everlasting. Tour traveloguer la nei-
ther a prophet nor the son of a proph-
et, bat he predicts that one day there
will be Innumerable Philippine govern'
went owned hydro-electric plants In
canyon w# are now naming
Summer Capital of th;- Philippines.
. tni. ..n. <iiiitk of tliv iwwvihlliiie* of
such a project! Today tlu> trip from
Manila to Hagiiio la too expensive for
the average Manila worker and his
family, many of whom may i'"o and
tile without beholding the worn.';'his
beauties of their own island of I.uv u
Think of what a blessing It would . >
to Filipino mothers and children to
feel upon their fevered brows the cool,
Invigorating breer.es of the mountain
tops, now so near ami yet so far! With
the Philippine government owning lis
own electric railways and hydro-olee-
tric plan!/! it would he possible to brlug
the trip ti) Maputo within the means o.
hundreds ofthousands of Filipinos,
Not. only is there satlioiont power In
'this river to eleetrir,* a line from Ma-
iiilla to Pagoi '. t :U to operate the
(street railways of Manila, light the
;clty and furii'sh power for manufac-
turing eotM-erns.
But we have now arrived at Camp
One, Prom this point the scenery
rapidly changes as the elevation In-
creases. We are traveling over the
famous P.enguet road, the construct Ion
jof which through the mountains Is a
most remarkable engineering triumph.
At places the road Is blasted out of the
^olhl granite. Riding on the edge of a
100 foot precipice makes one feel like
a tui^e city.
. Baguio rangea in elevation from
M,500 to 5,500 feet and to aurrounded
practically on nil sides by high moun*
Jain ridges and "hogsbacks" towering
Jnto the skies at a height of almost
8,000 feet.
Aside from the scenery, which la
noteworthy, the great blessing of Ba-
guio Is Its temperate climate, which Is
Indeed a godsend to those Impoverish-
ed by the tropical temperatures of tlio
lowlands. Not only Is the mountain
'air rich in ozone, but it has been dem-
onstrated to be extraordinarily free
frpm germs of all kinds.
Each year during «he hot season the
School teachers of the entire archipela-
go are ennbled by the government to
spend a month at the teachers' cump
In Baguio for recreation and confer-
ence on school work. American army
officers and their fnmllles also go to
.Baguio for the hot montha.
And now that your traveloguer has
you In Baguio, he believes he will leuve
you there, for there are many Interest-
ing side trips to take, and,* besides,
Baguio Is the most delightful place for
ia vaeatlou Id the entire Orient.
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AMERICA TO GIVE
INDEPENDENCE
Maximo M. Kalaw Declares U. S.
Cannot Consistently Refuse
"Self-Determination."
"When thc,\ show
ty," "When they a:
By MAXIMO ft. KALAW,
Secretary ef the Pliir:;>pn i M t.s'on. Au-
thor "Tlui fur the Kmpiaos."
"Self-OoviTiin.ent In Ui«?
I'lllllliIIKIesl." etc
sufficient enpaei-
•e ahlu lo govern
t h e m solve s,"'
" \Y h e n t h e >
are «■ d u c a t e d
eaon:.-h." Thus
run the answers
of inair. Ameri-
cans pressed with
the <|t:es!ioti as to
when the Filipi-
nos s h o a 1 d he
granted their In-
'1 :lance. Now,
"ability," "capaci-
ty' and "sulll
eii ::t education"
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mean In bluek
"At times we seemed perilously near
the jumping off place."
he is on the rliu of the world. Some of
the turns are so sharp It Is Impossible
to see 2(1 feet ahead, and we seem to
be perilously near the Jumping off
place. We wonder :f It Is safe to lean
out and peer Into the canyon far below,
rind when we do we are perfectly sat-
isfied we are flirting with death. Yet
the trip Is a safe one, providing our
driver has better nerves than our own.
All too soon we reach the outsklrta
Of Baguio, n city among the clouds,
land are rattier surprised at the modern
rlfy we find It to be. In ten year# Bn-
gttio has grpwn from a village of hula
lo the now 'Jttatly famed mountain re-
port of tbe Philippine*, sometimes catt-
ed th* Philippine Simla, ft to ■ -
doubt -n* dsatiMd aosM day tobtmm
Maximo M. Kalaw.
and white?
• Senator Sho.:an may think no pepphv
Is capable of self-government that does
not establish the judicial recall, or thai
has no Hilly Sunday, John Smith of
Some: • may ildnk no people is
capal .• f selt'-governnient that does
not \ ids democratic ticket, or go to
die- n Sundays.
"i . ..aclty for self-government" is as
broad and elastic as the world, and If
thnt should be the criterion for the
granting of Philippine Independence,
America might us well say to tbe Fili-
pinos, "I will give yc independence
when It pleases uie to do so."
Fortunately, the American promise
to the Philippines is not based on such
obscure and abstract conditions. It Is
based on a definite selznble thing.
When America, through her Congress,
officially told the Filipino people that
they would tie granted their independ-
ence as soon as they could establish a
stable government, no abstract or ob-
acure condition waa meant Stable
government, according to American
usage, means a certain, definite thing.
The United States promised the Cu-
bans the same thing, that "when they
have establlahed a stable government,
then American troops would be with-
drawn." As soon as the Cuban people
elected a government suited to them-
selves, capable of maintaining order
and fulfilling all International obliga-
tions, there wi\s a stable government
In Cuhn, and American troops were
withdrawn.
When Congress passed the Jones
law, It simply borrowed the phrase
"stable government" from the Cuban
history and applied It to the Philip-
pines. The history of Philippine leg-
islation shows that in black and white.
With full knowledge of what It meant,
the Filipino people accepted the Jones
law and immediately began setting up
the stable government required by Con-
gress a a pre requisite to Independ-
ence. The stable government Is now
a fact. It is Indeed more than that; It
Is an undisputed fact.
The official representative of the
Tnlted Slates In the Philippine Islands,
the governor, General, reported to the
American Congress and the administra-
tion that "the Filipino people have es-
tablished the stable government de-
manded by Congress us a prerequisite
for the granting of Independence—
namely, a government elected by the
suffrage of the iwople, which la imp-
ported by the people, which to «ap«bto
of maintaining order cod of fulfilling
tta International obligations.*
The PVHpfi'm M'MwOoe Umrofora
no ..juger a v, .ion ol p..i.ilcs, argu-
ment or supposition. To the Philip-
pine mind, at least, It to now u ques-
tion of, whether the United States Is
ready to discharge Its own obligations
fully and completely. Arteries went
before the world lu the recent war as
the avowed champion jf "self-determi-
nation" and Filipinos cannot see how
America can consistently refuse to act.
The Filipino people, however, have
m> grudge or grievance against the
American people. Theirs is a message
of friendship and gratitude. They seek
Independence as Ihe natural and log-
ical outcome of America's policy In
the islands and of America's solemn
prohilse to them. They come willing
to give privileges and concessions not
Incompatible with their national wel-
fare.
The Filipino people are willing to
accept Independence under'any of the
following conditions: Under a League
of Nations, guaranteeing Its territorial
Integrity; under the protectorateshlp
of the United States for the first few
years; under a treaty of neutrality be-
tween the United Statee, England, Ja-
pan, France and other powers, or even
without any condition whatever—abso-
lute and complete Independence. They
have no fear of Jupan. Philippine In-
dependence, In our opinion, la not Inim-
ical to Japanese Interests. The Japa-
nese are now free to come to the Phil-
ippines. but at the present time there
are less than 10,000 Japanese In tho
Islands. There ure six times as many
Japanese in California as there are In
the entire Philippine Archipelago. '
The Filipinos are willing to take
tbelr chance as a nation. Smaller na-
tlona beset by graver problems and
dangers have taken a more hazardous
ehance at freedom, ami have suc-
ceeded. „
2ND MISSION
COMES FROM
PHILIPPINES
Body Headed by Senate Presi-
dent Quezon Reiterates De*
mand for Independence.
That the Filipino people are in earn-
est in their demand for immediate in-
dependence is Indicated by the coming
to the United States of a second Philip-
pine mission to work for Independence.
Coincident with «his announcement the
War Department received a cable from
Manila slating that tho nil-Filipino leg-
islature had adopted resolutions re-
Horatlng lis plea for immediate inde-
pendence.
The ad mission, like the first, is
conit) ■ r the le.-d'ug men of ihe is-
lam!:- . i >\ !l work In the United
States i> i.ni;. for Immediate inde-
pendence, ha: tub > io bring about '.'bet-
ter undersian ng, greater eontldenee
and closer -eo'iomie relations between
tlie United Stales and tbe Philippines."
The mission is again headed lo : :;in-
nel, L. Quezon, president of ,i ■ I'hl'ip-
plne Senate, who Is well known In
America, having been for six yeans res-
ident commissioner to the United
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Oongress he woo fha esteem and con-
fidence of both the Republican ami
Democratic sides of the chamber.
Whenever he spoke he was assured of
n good attendance. One of the official
short hand reporters once declared
Quezon used the purest English of any
member of the House.
Osinena, as president of the Nnclon-
allsta party, Is the lender of the na-
tional movement for Independence.
"Osinena Is the premier 'de facto' of
tho Philippines," said a lending Flllpl-
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Speaker Sergio Oamena.
no Journalist, uow lu America. "A
very conscientious and tireless worker,
thorough and persistent, a genius for
grasping the big features as well as
the smallest details of public a (Talis,
coot headed, quiet by temperament and
education, a deep thinker, an eloquent
speaker, a polished writer, a keen ob-
server of men—such Is Osmenn."
Both Osmenn and Quezon have been
consistent advocates- of Philippine in-
dependence, yet when the occasion de-
manded It they have never hesitated to
champion the cause of America's good
Intivntlons toward the Filipino neonl*.
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Dunwody, Will A. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1920, newspaper, April 22, 1920; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth126232/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.