. Philippine life in town and country. rade proper being insignificant until after thevoyages of the galleons were suppressed with theachieving of independence by Mexico, accom-panied by the entry of foreigners to develop nativeproducts and the admission of foreign vessels tothe Philippine external carrying-trade, thoughunder restrictions to the last. The student ofPhilippine history may satiate himself with argu-ments against a preferential trade policy, underany and every aspect. Even were it concededthat Manila has the proper location, and that itwould be desirable once more to revert to a
. Philippine life in town and country. rade proper being insignificant until after thevoyages of the galleons were suppressed with theachieving of independence by Mexico, accom-panied by the entry of foreigners to develop nativeproducts and the admission of foreign vessels tothe Philippine external carrying-trade, thoughunder restrictions to the last. The student ofPhilippine history may satiate himself with argu-ments against a preferential trade policy, underany and every aspect. Even were it concededthat Manila has the proper location, and that itwould be desirable once more to revert to a deadand buried policy, and to convert this port into a Trade and Internal Development 289 trade-depot to the neglect of the internal develop-ment of the country, one must wonder how it hasbeen dreamed that this would be possible underrestrictions upon the carrying-trade or upon theexchange of merchandise, in the face of such freeports as Hongkong and Singapore. Verily, the14 promoters kind of brain breeds much pictur-esque CHAPTER X THE FIUPINOS AND THE ORIENT THE Philippines may be considered to-day asa laboratory where an experiment with im-portant bearings on the race problem is beingconducted. There is a certain school of expertswhich maintains that Orientals are not only prac-tically different in many ways to-day from thedominant peoples of the Occident, but that theyare inherently different beings, having a mentalconstitution not really to be understood by theWesterner, and capable of modern progress,as the Westerner views progress, only to a limiteddegree, and then under the guidance of Occiden-tal mentors. Irately this view has been on thepoint of being erected into a dogma, between thelabours of Kipling and his imitators in lightstories and verse, on the one hand, and the gravepronouncements of journalistic specialists on theOrient, on the other hand. It were malicious atthis moment to do more than merely point outthat Japan has recently been shattering a
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