Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-19
ANOTHER CoNFEssI0N

The esteemed Intelligencer is grad
uaily seeing the light. AS yet, however,
it is seeing it only obliquely. That is
TO say, our neighbor is slowly getting
onto" the imperial scheme of the adj
ministration and frankly acknowledge
telligencer acknowledged, in as PLAIN
and simple language as it ever uses,
that the policy of the administration
in the Philippines was one of con
quest" and ''forcible annexation" ex-
cusing it on the ground that the DEM
ocratic party's requirement of Louisi-
ana and Texas and the vast territory
beyond the Mississippi was the result
of conquest" by the Democracy-a
laughable twisting Of familiar Amer
lean history
Yesterday our neighbor furnished us
another insight into the real policy and
method OF the administration in it's
un-American war to suppress Filipino
independence, by making few more
unconscious but interesting admissions,
which, coming from a tight-ribbed or
gan like the Intelligencer, must be ac-
cepted as the real thing. Our neighbor
accuses the Register of suppressing or
hiding in a corner for partisan rea-
sons an item of news from the Philip
pines. This plan is so regularly pur-
sued by the organ itself that it evident
ly imagines all newspapers are tarred
with the same stick.
OF course, we need not say our neigh
boris charge is false for the Register
published the item in question. The
amusing feature of this charge. how
ever, is sufficiently shown when We
come to examine said item.
We quote the organ as 10 what
the dispatch CONFERENCE.-The emphasis
in caps" being our neighbor's own
the organist of late seeming to have
a partiality for talking in capital let
tiers. He says:
The dispatch thus belittled by the Regis
not be discredited, was an authoritative
statement that the 'Schurman peace COM
mission offered everything possible short of
ABSOLUTE SELF-GO TERNMENT 10
AguinaldO and his followers.
The dispatch further stated that "Agui-
naldo was promised, as the price in the
restoration of peace in the Tagaios tribe,
a bonus of more than 5000 year While
the TagaloS remained peaceful. He was
told he could choose men from his tribe for
the minor municipal offices. The commits
sion went so Tar TO promise AguinaldO
the moral support OF the United States
government il such were needed, to
MAKE HIS LEADERSHIP OF THE
lAGALOS THOROUGHLY SECURE" In
view of all that has occurred, and the
amount of bioodshed on the part OF Ameri-
cAn troops that such an arrangement
would save we would like the Reg.ste to
say just how much Imperialism there was
in this offer. AguinalQo declined TO yield
10 these liberal offers and demanded i'm
mediate self-government, and that was
why negotiations were Withdrawn.
Here we have it right from the organ
itself The administration at Wash
ington has suddenly discovered the
tremendously unpopular character of
its un-American effort to crush the
Filipinos' aspirations for independence,
and since it will require another army
of 100000 men to conquer the islands
and a standing army of similar size
to hold them after once conquered,
and, furthermore as the keen but weak
kneed politician in the White House
sees the handwriting ON the wall, which
says the American people will never
endorse a policy so antagonistic to