The Republican journal., 1898-05-19
The Cuba of the East.


..enr- The People Kept in Ignorance
Allowed to Develop their Natural
.ourcer
~. are more than 5000, 900 people,
..ny kinds, many colors and many
a. an the sunny and prolific islands
philippine archipelago. Many
-m4u in their lives and aspirations,
.,.rn measured by the standards of
...u More would be human and
...rs Il their conditions were less OPP
They love their children as
...ule do, and some have dreams
in which their descendants
.lacated, industrious, virtuous
-.. Although their home lies away
... main dine of travel between Eu-
America and China, they hear
The active world. They have
All avilization in which govern
as axes recognizes duty to the
esndition in which the strong
irsy on the weak, and might is not
r such ideas some of them fight
H Vtually no reasonable hope of
.s> with the chances largely in favor
-r and cruel death, patriotic
Ifs So from time to time, and in
.a.nidable numbers to undertake
.rlous task of driving out the tyran-
~,auard. Here the policy of brib-
any tried in Cuba, recently brought
rsgraction to an apparent end, but
b. most Immediately followed by an
winch still troubles the rulers.
he Philippines is rare, meagre
-1stworthy when it relates to the
tmeurs of the insurgents, whose
4 , lowed for nearly a century.
-tn las any purpose in coloring
and her officials color or con-
5..0 az to her interests. The fore
....e4ts avoid trouble by knowing
some weeks ago brief mes
.,v of san Francisco, contained
reent information as to the Sc
OF the Instruction that Span
reported as having been sup
" announced the adoption by
uli general of the barbarous
4cy OF 'Weyler-a strange policy
Nuless the Instruction is far
pIable than the Spanish officials
7d the world to know; an i'm
licy if the rebels had been
rau The authorities are more
--. in suppressing information
'3 than from Havana, where
-.-,4ag c1fraSrop5aptS Tho mos
nced that ''all personal certiti-
->es, which are really receipts
lament OF an unparalleled annu-
were recalled, and troeha
- tor military purposes than
ling of non-combatants, con-
U determination by Starvation.
Fly Of all rebels is confscated,
property OF tenants, partners,
a'>onS interested in the property
If person is SO unfortunate
tor a landlord man who is
FIA being a rebel, his own prop
n from him by the authorities.
.-j that the wives, children,
Iarhers, brothers-in-la and
t- rebel, shall either join him in
Of the insurgents, or else fix
euee at some military post,
yes OF the Spanish soldiers.
alt this means we know from
.nie experience of Cuba. 1t in
BE- turning of the homes of the
7tants, the destruction of their
IS, and their slow starvation in
1t is known that the Spanish
the Philippines are not above
thumb-screws to extort evil
md they may be Justly charged
=r-Ing the most cruel punishment
elatiYes Of persons who rebel
la beneticent rule of Spain.
ii common fallacy to regard the
7'} of natives of the Philippines as
sodden ignorance, squalor and
lose who are not exactly inform
-- bem with the original natives of
the Pacific islands. They are not
s., .r perhaps, often, an admirable
n many ways they shock the in
prudent and independent
~ their Incidence and shiftless-
.r... .Y.. lai, spprtS II iS bapIl " fair