Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1899 — WOULD BRING ON WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOULD BRING ON WAR

To Interfere by Force with Practices Among the Sains. Prof. Schurman of the Philippine commission says the treaty this Government made with the Sulu Sultan is the same in effect which the natives had with Spain. Before the United States troops stopped at Jolo, Prof. Schurman paid the Sultan a visit and talked at great length with him. The Sultan is most anxious to

be friendly with the Americans and he believes they mean to treat him and his people fairly. The religion of the natives is Mohammedan and they are both ignorant and fanatical. Polygamy is a part of their religion and slavery in the shape of a sort of feudal bondage exists. The men on the islands are powerful and strong and they are desperate fighters. They consider death, in the cause of religion, the easiest and surest way to heaven. Prof. Schuraan says if the United States tries to interfere with rights and customs in the Sulu islands it will provoke a long and Moody war.

SULTAN OF SULU.