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Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. Splendid tree-ferns rise thirty or forty feetinto the air, while underneath are smaller varieties and ex-quisite orchids. So dense is the vegetation in some of theseforests that the fierce tropical sun hardly penetrates to theground beneath them and the dense undergrowth constantlydrips with moisture. The islands contain some 10,000,000 natives of differenttribes, many of whom the Spaniards w^ere never able to bringunder their authority. The main population consists of theTagals. They, together with the various mixtures of half-breeds, bore a burdensome taxation and other unhappy condi-tions for many years, and, so long as the only educated peopleon the islands were the rulers, there was little trouble. Littleby little, the natives and half-lireeds became educated, some ofthe young men of the riclier families going abroad, and with AVARICE AND KELKHOUS FANATICISM 539 greater education came greater ambition. The natives beganto desire some voice in the covernment, the abuses of which
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MAP OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. they began to understand; and, of course, the proud Spaniardand the power-loving friar looked with as pronounced disfavor 540 GRIEVANCES OF THE FILIPINOS upon the demands of these people as they did upon those of theCubans. The church organization became very powerful in thehands of the various orders of Dominicans, Augustinians,Recoletanos, and Franciscans, and even the Governor-Generalhimself dared not oppose them. The Archbishop received asalary of $12,000 a year, though to conduct the whole ecclesi-astical establishment cost no less than $1,000,000 a year.The Archbishop lived in a palace in considerable state, and onthe great feast days he was the only one allowed to ride in acarriage. The Governor-General received a salary of $40,000,though the cost of his office to the colony was no less than$1,000,000 a year. As in Cuba, governors came with emptypockets and went away with full ones. It was asserted thatWeyler put $6,000,000 to his credit during th

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