The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-22
DOLEFUL FACTS
That Seems to Lose Their Force when Col
ored For the President.
Baltimore Sun.

sun.
Quite a different reception appears to
have attended the exhibition Of the
chart of the Philippines by which
President Schurmann, of Cornell, also
president of the Philippine commission,
and just returned from the islands,
has come prepared to demonstrate the
speedy and complete triumph of the
presidents policy of Benevolent AS
similation," especially that part of it
which depends upon a judicious appli-
cation of gatling guns and Springfield
rifles. President Mckinley 1t is ex-
pressly stated has derived great deal
of comfort from an inspection of Presi-
dent Schurman's chart, while several
high officials of the War department
who had been lately in the dumps and
disposed to take rather pessimistic
picked up heart wonderfully, and are
now looking for a speedy termination
of the war, not next week. it is true but
within a very few months.
| All this has been the result of Presi-
dent Schurman's adroitly accompany
| ing the oral presentation of his own
rose-colored and optomistic views by
map, also in colors, in which not only
the size and location of the different
islands, and of the different tribes which
inhabit them, but even their DISPOSE
ton and the future course of events,
predicted according to the most approv-
ed science of mathematical probabil-
tiles, are skilfully portrayed by the use
of differed colored pigments. 1t is
true that none of the geographical,
statistical, historical or chronological
facts upon which President Schurman
relies are new. They are to be found,
with abundance of maps, English,
American, Spanish, French, Dutch
and German, in numerous encyclopae-
dias, books and phampletson the Philip
pines, and even in magazine and news
paper articles. But nobody before has
thought of illustrating the facts in
colors. Printed in black and white
they have necessarily worn a somber
not to say funeral, aspect.
For example, to look at an ordinary
map and see that out of the ia, 900 square
miles for which President Mckinley
paid Spain $20,0OO,0OO, Just to bind the
bargain" we are not today in undis-
turbed possession of 100 square miles
and out of 1900 islands have not even
our foot planted, and then only upon the
seaboard, on more than three or four
is calculated to have a discouragine
effect. Nor is it a cheerful thing tc
realize that so far as we have been en-
gagged in fighting, for more than sis
months with inappreciable success
a single one of the many tribes tha
inhabit the Philippines, and that the
most civilized and peaceable, the leas
savage and warlike of them all. Tht
fact that such a comparatively small
number of Tagals, who have thus fa
successfully held our forces at bay
with total population of less than {
million and a half out Of an aggregate
of nine or ten millions in the islands, Il
calculated to suggest another arithmeti
!, cal calculation, like the previous on
which seems to postpone the complet
pacification and assimilation of tn
Philippines to a very remote future
, indeed.
All this, doubtless, has tendency t.
give President Mckinley the megrims
or, we may say, "the blues" and pos
sibly it is upon the we'll known principl
, of similia similibus that DR.. Schurmal
calls in the aid of blue paint, but no
, only of blue, but of all the colors of tn
rainbow, with which to decorate tn
map of the Philippines, to cheer tn
presidents eye.