. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. Igorrote Head Hunters with Head Axes and Spears. It was interesting to mark whether or notcontact with a superior race would be astimulus to them. A contrast, again, to the Igorrotes waspresented by the Ilocoans, an intelligent,industrious, Christian people, eager for edu-cation, yet promising to cherish independent 1S99] UNITED STATES IN THE OR I EXT 269 ideals the more clearly the more prosperousand advanced they became. Most implacable of all the races werethe Moros of the Sulu Islands. Warlike,and de
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. Igorrote Head Hunters with Head Axes and Spears. It was interesting to mark whether or notcontact with a superior race would be astimulus to them. A contrast, again, to the Igorrotes waspresented by the Ilocoans, an intelligent,industrious, Christian people, eager for edu-cation, yet promising to cherish independent 1S99] UNITED STATES IN THE OR I EXT 269 ideals the more clearly the more prosperousand advanced they became. Most implacable of all the races werethe Moros of the Sulu Islands. Warlike,and despising labor, their terrible piracieshad been curbed only within fifty years, and. Native Moros—Interior of Jolo. their depredations and slave raiding byland were never wholly prevented. Theywere suspiciously eager to assist ourforces in subduing the insurgents. TheAmerican authorities negotiated a treatywith the Sultan and his dattos, involvingtheir submission to the United States. Aprovision of this treaty excited reprobation, 270 EXPANSION [1899 that permitting a slave to buy his freedom, a recognition of slavery in derogation ofthe Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitu-tion. The provision was excused as anabsolutely necessary makeshift to put offhostilities till the United States had a fnhand. Spain never governed a colony well. Herwhole record outre-mer was of a piece withthe enslavement and extermination of thegentle Caribs, with which it began. Inslaver\- and the slave trade Anglo-Saxonconquistadors shared Spains dishonor, butin sheer ugliness of despotism, in wholesale,systematic, selfish exploiting, and in cor-rupt and clumsy administration the Iberianmona
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