Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-19

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WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 1S.-Gen.
Lawton's campaign against the Filipino
troops in the province of Cavite, within
a radius of ten miles south of Manila, has
drawn forcible attention to the failure of
the administration so far to accomplish an
effective conquest of the Island of Luzon.
In fact, after six months of fighting, we
hold less of the Philippine archipelago
than was in subsection to Spain prior TO
the Spanish-American war. There are
American garrisons in but five out of the
hundreds of islands composing the archi-
pelago-namely, in Luzon, Panay, Negros,
Cebu and Sulu; and in each of these
islands only single town or port is occu-
pied. M.nando, second to Luzon in point
of size. is still under the domination of
its native Mohammedan rulers. who are
in possession of the fortified seaport
Zamboanga No American forces have yet
taken possession of the important islands
Mindoro, Palawan, Leyte. Samar, Bohol,
Masbate, Marinduque and Sequijor.
mere fraction of the area and population is
therefore under American rule To main
tain this rule an army of nearly 10000 men
Is stationed in and about Manila and at
four other points in the archipelago. 1t
IS now proposed to augment this by 5000
troops, making the total force in the
philippines $1,000 men. The annual cost
of such an army is much in excess of $751;
100000. No wonder the vacillating McKin-
ley hesitates to issue a call for more troops
or subjugate the Fflipinos. But whether
he calls for more troops or not our Phil
ippine campaigning will absorb all the re-
cruits that can be enlisted in this country
as fast as they can be drilled, fitted out
and transported to the orient. They will
all be needed to replace those killed,
wounded and invalided
The blunder of the administration is in
attempting the conquest of the Filipnos
instead of their pacificaton. 1t has been
and is now the theory of the President and
advisers that if the natives are once
thoroughly licked the Philippine prob
lem will be in fair way to solution. Posi-
bly,; but pacification in the first place
would have made the licking unnecessary.
There is no doubt that pacifcation was at
one time within sight Gen Charles A.
Whittier, in his testimony before the
peace commission at Paris, said: II be-
lfeve that it will be an easy matter to Sc
cure the loyalty and fidelity of the natives,
with the maintenance by US of a small and
very quickly decreasing army. If we at
tempt the unwise thing of ignoring the
natives, an army of $4,000 men be none too
small" The unwise thing was attempted
when President Mckinley proclaimed that
the United States would take possession of
the Philippines and establish colonial
government without regard to such native
government as was already existing. This
and the refusal to treat with Aguinaldo's
representative in Washington were the real
causes of the war now in progress
What is needed at Manila is broad
minded. sympathetic pacifcator. General
OTIS is narrow. stubborn and self-willed
lawyer, wasting his time over small things
of administration and utterly unable to
deal with the difficult problems of gov
erning oriental races that he finds con-
fronting him. England's experience with
inferior races has always been that success
in governing them depends largely upon
sympathetic administration by officials
who understand the people they deal with
tices and prejudices of the people among
whom they are thrown they endeavor to
interfere as little as possible with local
customs and to make use of whatever ad-
ninistrative ability the natives afford Sir
Andrew Clarke described this method in
paragraph referring to his pacification
of the Malay States one of the most bril-
liant examples of administrative skill in
tiCh enin n:a1 hi
volving the slaughter of natives races. not
by drafts upon the imperial exchequer, has
the development of the Malay States been
attained. Their present peace and marvel
Gus advance in prosperity have been due
to sympathetic administration, which has
dealt tenderly with native prejudices and
sought to lead upward a free people in
stead of forcibly driving a subject race"
Everything so successfully done in the pac-
ification of the Malay States, Mckinley
and Otis have succeeded in not doing in the
Philippines. Where is the great pacifcator
Of the Philippines, and why does not the
good and pious Mckinley try to get hold
of him and place him where he can per-
form his office?
There is a good reason why 1t is that
the President has no Philippine policy
sort of a government to give the Philip-
pines, and has no power to establish one
All that he can do is to maintain military
dictatorship and keep on fighting. He
can't stop that because the military crowd
won't let him, and he is afraid to send
troops enough to crush out the Fflipinos
because the American people might not
approve his course. Thus the wise Me-
kinley hangs limp and poweress in the
hands of Destiny waiting for something to
turn up that will happily solve his per-
plexity.
director Miriam, of the Census Bureau,
has told visitor that he will give to each
Senator and Representative in Congress
SIX appointments in the bureau This will
dispose of about 1900 of the 5000 more an
pointments in the bureau itself The 9TH
er thousand will be otherwise disposed of
which means that they will be placed
where they will do the Hanna Mckinley
combination most good. Besides these g.
GOO places there are 800 supervisors. whose
appointments will be dictated by United
States Senator's and an unknown number
OF enumerators to be appointed by the SUI
pervsors In the census of 1890 there were
$500 enumerators; it has been estimated