Identifier: philippinelifein00lero (find matches)
Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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retentious and sometimes obscuresort, but they have associations for the study andreform of Tagalog spelling and vocabulary, co-operative labour unions which are thus far mainlypolitical in their objects (at least, so far as theirchief organisers are concerned), and outr,and-outpolitical partieSj„pnly^.jone^piljsjbich has shownany cohesion thus far. * * Association is a magicword in the Philippines at present, and, thoughaccompanied more by rhetoric than by any clearconception of objects in view, it is at least an in-teresting phenomenon of the times. The variousworking mens societies organised in the past few i years were the conception of certain cheap dema-gogues, eager to encounter a means for continu-ing to figure before the public; they have no realpolitical significance beyond the fact that theseleaders drew in with them some young men ofcomparatively good education but limited experi-ence whose opposition to the existing Governmentis not demagogic, consciously at least. That
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l«gJI City Dwellers 109 these organisations may be made vehicles fordoing mischief has already been indicated bysome of the incidents which have occurred since1902. pProm certain standpoints, it is also regret-4-table that the labour-union idea should have beenthus prematurely introduced into the Philippines,where the most urgent need is for a sound con-ception of the worth of work in itself alone. Still,though the groundlings of these societies may soeasily be led astray by false leaders, the harmthat is done is very likely more than neutralisedby the good, and the movement may, indeedmUvSt, properly be left to work itself out. Certainrestless Filipinos have a new toy upon which tolavish their attentions, and the men of sense maybe left to learn the uselessness of certain thingsupon which just now they lay great stress; mean-while, the real workmen who contribute their obolsget some pleasure out of gatherings which are,for them, mainly important on their social side. For the lower c

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