. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. facilities oftransportation, as has al-ready been roads as there are,(luring the rainy .seasonsare rendered ditticult ofpassage, if not imjiassa-ble. while coast naviga-tion at tliese times is dangerous. Only one railroad on the islands hasbeen built, and tliat connects Manila wtli Pangainan, at distance of onelinndrfd and twentv-three miles. It is of single track, of fairlv ijoodconstruction, and connects the capital with the rice-growi
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. facilities oftransportation, as has al-ready been roads as there are,(luring the rainy .seasonsare rendered ditticult ofpassage, if not imjiassa-ble. while coast naviga-tion at tliese times is dangerous. Only one railroad on the islands hasbeen built, and tliat connects Manila wtli Pangainan, at distance of onelinndrfd and twentv-three miles. It is of single track, of fairlv ijoodconstruction, and connects the capital with the rice-growing districts. The principal staples of export have been hemp, sugar, coffee, cocoa,and tobacco, raw and manufactured. The chief imports have been rice,Hour, dress goods, wines, coal, and petroleum. The total imports into theislands at the breaking out of the revolution in 1896 were valued at $: the exports for the .same year amounted to $20,175,000. Thegreat bulk of foreign trade was receixed by the Americans until the recenttroubles with Cuba, just befoiv the last Spanish-American war. aroused the. . K.\IL\\.\V STATION. 268 UK FAK EAST. Spaniards to such abuses as to drive the American representative fromthe Philippines, and England profited by the others loss. Public revenue is in round nunil)ers twelve million dollars per annum,raised mostly from direct taxation, customs, monopolies, and basis of the financial system is the poll-tax, which every male andfemale under sixty has to pay. The abuses and oppressions arising fromthis system burdened the common people, until they became neither Spain nor the islands profited by it to any extent. Tlie primeobject of the officials from the establishment of the colony to the time ofits loss to Spain seemed to he to reap the spoils of office. A native histo-rian, Lala, in speaking of this, says: More money was set aside for thetransportation of priests than for the building
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