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viduals to kill themselves outright by 

 overindulgence in the white man's strong 

 liquor. 



Furthermore, a w^ild man who has 

 once developed a taste for it will work 

 to get it when nothing else will induce 

 him to work. It became known to me 

 that unscrupulous persons were taking 

 advantage of this weakness to sell bad 

 liquor to the wild men in large quanti- 

 ties and to secure them as laborers at 

 small expense. 



I am not a believer in the enactment 

 of prohibitory legislation which cannot 

 be enforced ; but it happens that condi- 

 tions as to transportation are such, in 

 much of the mountain territory, as to 

 render it comparatively easy to prevent 

 the importation of liquor, and since the 

 desirability of doing so was evident, I 

 drafted and submitted an act which has 

 been successfully enforced with very 

 gratifying results. In the Agusan Val- 

 ley, for instance, the chief transportation 

 business a few years since was the ship- 

 ment of vino up river. Today the prin- 

 cipal transportation business is the ship- 

 ment of hemp down river. 



OPIUM NOT USi:d 



The use of opium is at present practi- 

 cally unknown among the people of the 

 non-Christian tribes except the Moros, 

 and with the existing prohibitory legisla- 

 tion we should, theoretically, be able to 

 keep it so. Unfortunately, the facility 

 with which opium can be smuggled is so 

 great as to render legislation prohibiting 

 its use largely farcical, and until the evil 

 is checked by limiting production in the 

 countries where the drug is grown its 

 use will inevitably continue to spread. 



AS TO CL0THE:S 



No efforts have been put forth to per- 

 suade the wild people, other than school 

 children, to adopt the garb of civiliza- 

 tion. This will surprise, and may even 

 shock, many good people who have grown 

 up in the belief that there is an intimate 

 and necessary relationship between the 

 clothing of the human body and morality 

 in sexual relations. Such people will be 

 still more surprised to learn the hard fact 



that the morality of a number of the al- 

 most naked tribes of the Philippines is, 

 in such matters, far above that of any 

 civilized nation in the world; and that, 

 curiously enough, some of the most fully 

 clad Philippine wild tribes fall farthest 

 below the ordinary standard of civilized 

 peoples. 



Furthermore, it is a sufficiently well- 

 known fact that the health of men who 

 have been accustomed to wear only clouts 

 is often prejudicially influenced when 

 they don shirts or trousers. 



We have therefore been content to let 

 the inevitable change come about gradu- 

 ally, and I, at least, have regretted the 

 rather rapid disappearance of some of 

 the more striking and attractive of the 

 native costumes. 



When the wild man acquires clothes, 

 he usually begins at the top and works 

 downward. A hat is the first article 

 purchased ; then comes a shirt or coat ; 

 then shoes. Trousers are donned last of 

 all, if at all. 



When the boys' school at Baguio was 

 opened, the pupils were fitted out with 

 natty blue uniforms. Shortly afterward 

 I met six of them returning to Baguio 

 after spending Saturday and Sunday at 

 home. They were wearing their caps 

 and coats, but their trousers were sus- 

 pended from the ends of sticks carried 

 over their shoulders ! 



For some reason the idea gained prev- 

 alence among the Benguet Igorot presi- 

 dentes of towns that their official posi- 

 tion required the adoption of civilized 

 dress, but they nevertheless complained 

 bitterly that trousers tired them, and re- 

 quested vacations from time to time in 

 order that they might retire temporarily 

 from public fife and take off these un- 

 comfortable garments. 



When on my earlier trips through the 

 Luzon Mountains I was slipping and 

 sliding over water-worn rocks and scal- 

 ing cliffs with shoes worn out, feet torn 

 and bleeding, and life and limb conse- 

 quently imperiled, I envied my wild com- 

 panions the tough natural sole leather 

 on the bottoms of their bare feet. It 

 never wore out, seemed impervious to 

 cuts, and, aided by prehensible toes, gave 



