. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . eligious orders were formerly large land owners in thePhilippines, and the feeling of discontent that ultimately led tothe insurrection of the Filipinos against Spain in 1896 waslargely due to agrarian difficulties between the friars and theirtenants. When the revolution came, the friars had to flee fortheir lives, and after peace was restored by the United States,the insular government felt that if they returned to their pos-sessions they would be in constant danger from the hostility ofthe natives. It was, therefore
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . eligious orders were formerly large land owners in thePhilippines, and the feeling of discontent that ultimately led tothe insurrection of the Filipinos against Spain in 1896 waslargely due to agrarian difficulties between the friars and theirtenants. When the revolution came, the friars had to flee fortheir lives, and after peace was restored by the United States,the insular government felt that if they returned to their pos-sessions they would be in constant danger from the hostility ofthe natives. It was, therefore, decided to acquire these landsand to that end Congress passed an act authorizing the Philip- * A survey under the Cadastral survey act, passed by the Philippine legislature in1913, I. e., a survey of the land and assessment of its value as a basis for taxation wouldsupport a Torrens title. 2 Harold M. Pitt in his treatise, Reciprocity and the Philip-pine Islands, Manila, 1911, says that it is estimated that from 40,000 to 50,000 tons ofsugar are consumed in the
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