DOCTOR FREER AS A FRIEND OF THE FILIPINOS. 



By Fernando Calderon, 

 Professor of Obstetrics, University of the Philippines. 



There are three classes of Americans according to their feel- 

 ings toward the Filipinos with whom they are in daily contact. 

 First, there are those who maintain an attitude of absolute 

 indifference with respect to the future of the Filipino people, 

 when both races should thoroughly know and gladly help each 

 other. These Americans, after spending some time in the 

 Islands, return to the United States without having in any 

 manner cooperated in the improvement of their brothers, the 

 inhabitants of this beautiful Archipelago. Then, here are those 

 who are absorbed by a feeling of utter selfishness, and whose 

 sole desire is that this country be converted into a fit place for 

 the satisfaction of their personal ambitions, thus forgetting 

 entirely the economic welfare of the Filipino people. Lastly, 

 there are those noble Americans who have come to the Philip- 

 pines imbued with a kindly spirit toward the Filipino, whom 

 they treat as brother and friend. 



The object of these Americans, who are, after all, the real 

 and proper representatives of the great American nation in the 

 Far East, in coming to these shores, is neither to further their 

 private interest nor to satisfy their greed for wealth, but to 

 fulfil their sacred mission of service and usefulness and to set 

 an example of righteousness to their fellow-countrymen here, 

 so that we may justly call them the standard-bearers of a civili- 

 zation which is based on the ethical and immutable principles of 

 democracy and on that great ideal of history : the universal 

 brotherhood of man. These are the Americans whose beneficent 

 influence will infuse new ideas and new energies into our insti- 



