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RED CROSS SUPPLIES
STOLEN BY OFFICERS

Then it will depend upon how
justly the people we send there treat
the Filipinos. Nobody could Justly
have the idea that either the Ameri-
can Government or people mean to
oppress the inhabitants of the Phil
ippines, but many of the agents
sent there are undoubtedly cor
rupt. For instance, I saw on the
books of the Red Cross Society of
California to-day an account of how
two young fellows, one an army Off
Ger and the other Red Cross officer.
bad stolen the supplies of the Red
Cross Society and sold them, and
have now gone into business and are
now prosperous business men in
Manila. AS long as dishonesty and
cruelty are possible with our soldiers
and civilians do not think there will
be any lasting peace in the Philip
pines, but I do think that if the cam
paign was given into the hands of
one man who was competent to run
the civil administration we could
have peace; in other words, by send
ing men above politics or bribes or
fattery-men Of large brain, whose
honor Is unstained and who are hon
est and sincere without being affect
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RETENTION OF OTIS
IS UNFORTUNATE

I think it is absolutely necessary
to give the command of the army to
one strong man under the direction
Of one strong brain. If I may be al
lowed to suggest, it seems unfortu-
nate to retain General Otis in COM
mand of the Philippines. He may
have all the qualifications and have
the confidence Of the Government, but
inasmuch as he has entirely lost the
confidence of the soldiers and civil
ians in the Philippines think you
will find it more difficult to handle
things with him as Governor General
than you would if you had a new
mana man like General Leonard
Wood or General Irving Hale. The
great qualities Of some Of the younger
men in the Philippines, feel sure,
have been overlooked. Men like Fun
ston could have taken full command
of the army, and men like Irving
Hale would be very well suited for
the civil Government. There must be
thousands of men in America who
have great business capacity and who
would accept for brief time the Gov
ernor Generalship. have the utmost
respect personally for General Otis.
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AGUNALDO HAS A
GREAT DEAL OF POWER

AS far as the relation Of one tribe
to another goes, the tribes will fight
one another when they get out of
Job, but as a rule I think the Fill
pinos, especially the Tagalos and
Visayans, are pretty much under the
influence Of Aguinaldo. I do not
think they fear Aguinaldo, because
he really could not reach them in
Cebu or Iloilo; but genuinely think
the people in the islands generally
would rather have an autonomous
Government under an American pro-
tectorate than anything like a colo
nial or annexation arrangement It
will be a great deal easier to restore
peace when you have SIS 900 or TO-
600 soldiers in the islands,; but that
the rebels will ever give UP their
arms do not believe. They will give
up those arms that the Americans
corral and take from them; otherwise
I think they will hide away their
Mausers for another revolution. It is
sometimes said that Aguinaldo has
very little power, but I think that he
has fer more power than we are in
clined to admit. His name is one to
coniure with. have never seen a
Filipino who would not turn his ear
and listen if the magic name of
Aguinaldo was mentioned. This man
must have some great traits Of char
acter
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REPLACE THE FRIARS
WITH AMERICAN PRIESTS

Seventh-The Spanish friars should
go home to Spain and American
priests take their places, granting to
the Filipino "padres" the full rights
of priesthood, which they have never
had under Spain. Religion should be
let alone or wisely guided. CathoG-
cism is best suited for them at the
present time. Protestants should
have the same rights as Catholics all
through the islands. A silly decree
was published (and, believe, upheld
by General Otis) that all marriages
that have thus far been performed in
the Philippines by Protestant clergy
men are null and void. Tt caused
great deal of unfavorable sentiment
among the Americans, who would not
tolerate such a measure.
These are my opinions and OBJ
servations. They are given with
out fear and without favor and I hope
they will be of use to you in considering
the question. If I am wrong time will
very soon show it, and if I am right there
is no use sending you f1attering words
which only take up your time and throw
no light on the question. hope for the
President and his Cabinet all success in
dealing with the Philippine problem, and
have no doubt that their painstaking
although at times they may be criticized
by an ungrateful public.
Respectfully submitted,
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INFAMOUS TREATMENT OF
THE NATIVE WOMEN

An American chaplain in Malabon,
whose name I withhold, told me
that in his first parish work he had
been told by the natives Of Malabon
that their wives and daughters had
been raped by our soldiers. He could
authenticate only five cases. The pa
pers of that date (September 15) say
that two men in Manila have been
condemned to death for maltreating
native women. I saw again and again
the brothels of Manila crowded to the
doors by our soldiers, and the saloons
also. All these things may be un-
avoidable at times. They show how
necessary it is to have the right dis
cipline. General Hughes kept Manila
in the best order. A Boston lawyer
told me that he had many cases come
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Report Promptly Pigeonholed,
but The Call Secures ImDOr-
tant Extracts, Which Are
Now Revealed.

to his Office on the Escolta of natives
who had been maltreated. These peo-
pie said: "Your soldiers who came
into the towns first are very bad men,
but those who come later are very
kind men" can explain this to you.
The men often got ahead of their Off
GERS and committed outrages until
the officers came up.
General Lawton told me that he had
hard work to stop looting. He was very
good on this. One of the Kansas boys
told me Funston is hard nuts on non
keyin' with the dead; the boys burned
the wooden Christs and stole the brass
Jesuses off the crucifxes." Jean Hess of
the Figaro is practically correct in his
notes on the campaign, but he does not
understand the Americans. The Filipino
peace commissioners were sharper diplo-
matists than ours. I interviewed DR.. Schur-
man for the Associated Press. He was
a good, strong man, and fair-mnded, but
he did not see so much of the Filipino
question as the reporters. These men who
signed the rourd-robin against censorship
are to my certain knowledge reliable men.
Bass and Collins are especially conserva-
tive
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Of the revolution are the smartest,
brightest and best of all the Filipinos.
They have great power with their tribes.
1t is not true that this power is gained
through terrorism. 1t is gained because
there is spirit of nationality abroad in
the Philippines to-day. This is what
made it so easy for Aguinaldo's emissar-
les to gain control in Panay, Cebu, South
Luzon and Mindanao OF the final dis
position Of the Philippines L have no sug-
gestion to make. That lies with the peo-
pie of the United States. At present the
zone of hostility to the United States
authority is very wide in the islands,
owing in part, I think, to our lack of
success in dealing with the people.
Hatred of Americans has developed and
increased as we have advanced in our
occupation. The abolition of cock-fight-
ing and the retaining of taxes has griev-
ously offended the Filipinos While we
have allowed our soldiers all to gamble,
the Tagals watch US at our cards and
Craps and fully realize that cock-fight.
ing is no worse
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our soldiers are descending from the poetry
Of history to the prose of shame. They
oftentimes levy blackmail on the people
of the city, going, for example, into a
Chinaman's house and charging him IS
for the tax of his piano. So much is this
carried on, that a day of two before /
came away the walls of Manila were
plastered with a proclamation Of General
Otis in Spanish English and Tagalt g,
calling attention to the fact that no citi-
zen should pay taxes to any one except
at the places established by the Govern
ment. OF course, it is very difficult to
see how these things can be helped. [
am Of the strong opinion that our officers
are too strict on the men in relation to
their conduct around the camp and in
places where it conduces to the comfort
or discomfort Of the officers; but that
they are not strict enough with them
when they go out on the streets, or in
other words, when their conduct conduces
to the comfort or discomfort of the gen
eral public.
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landed forty sailors, who raised the
Stars and Stripes amid a sullen and
angry populace who wanted to attack
the Americans"
This is quoted to show you what a vast
amount of misinformation there has been
regarding the Philippines, and to show
you how absolutely necessary it is to send
only the best heart and brains Of the
country to try and establish a govern
ment which shall satisfy these people. A
large part of our army openly sympa-
thizes with many of the Filipino conten-
tions This is especially marked in the
volunteer regiments and is also very
marked among the older men of the reg
ular army. Even here in California,
which of all States will benefit most from
the trade of the Philippines, opinion is
much divided
Toward the end Of July in Manila the
soldiers seemed to degenerate. The war
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SPANISH FRIARS SHOULD
BE SHORN OF POWER

In regard to the power Of the church
in the islands, I have given the subject
much attention and careful thought, and
I conclude that the Spanish friars and
the holy orders had in the past, and still
have, more power than is good for the
development Of the Philippines. I have
expressed to You and in the press my
great admiration for the Catholic divines
who accompanied our army as chaplains.
I think the Catholic religion the best re-
ligion for the natives of the Philippines.
But the insidious rule of the priests and
friars is undoubtedly working an injury
to the cause of advancement in the Phil
ippine Islands. Again and again men of
high degree and low in the Philippines
assured ME that they loved the Catholic
church and were loyal to the Catholic
faith, but hated the friars as the gates of
hell.
OF course, the power Of the holy orders
is sometimes overestimated. For exam
pie. I learn that on farms near Manila,
which these orders rented TO the natives
for three cents an acre per year, the peo-
pie complained, Notwithstanding the rea-
sOnable rent.
There are Americans going into
Manila who do not represent even the
average class of American citizens.
Take some of the civilians. There is
a Mr.. Brown, whose name is Baran-
ski, and a Mr.. Carmen, associated to-
gether in the American Commercial
Company I have it on the authority
of MI. Kaelin and Timothy W. Coax
ley Of the uIl1ppInes-Amer1can Com
pany that Carmen and Brown sell
tomatoes for 81 so per case, whereas
the duty on tomatoes is So per case.
It is said that Carmen came to Manila
six months ago a penniless man, and
that to-day he has a monopoly of the
nipa thatch and the cascos for trans
portation on the Pasig River. Brown
is often seen with American officers
when these officers are intoxicated,
taking them to his home Everybody
tries to get a saloon. General Otis
will not give a license to an ex-sol-
dier. This is good as far as it goes,
but it goes such short way that it
only rritates the ex-soIdiers.
The abuses referred to in the above
paragraph are undoubtedly caused by the
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CORRUPTION AND DISHONESTY
COMMON IN THE ARMY

Rumors of dishonesty and corrupt
ofhcialism in our army are so common
in Manila that it seems to me that
there must be some truth in them.
Thus, we hear that an English con-
tractor sold $50 mules to the Govern
ment, but had to pay $4,000 to have
his contract accepted. The truth Of
this transaction I cannot be certain
of, but feel quite certain about one
thing which was told me by most
responsible person, Mrs. DR.. Beer,
chief of the Red Cross Society of Col
orado. She said that a Chinese
woman who contracted to sell vege-
tables, eggs, ETC., to the American
hospitals came to her and asked her
to try to influence the proper officials
to continue her contract. She said to
Mrs. Beer that she had been paying
the Americans 20 per cent commits
sion on the goods she sold the Gov
cent, which was more than she could
pay and make a reasonable profit.
think the impression was growing
among the Spaniards and Filipinos,
as well as our own people in Manila,
when I left, that some of the Ameri-
can civilians and soldiers could give
the Spaniards cards and spades and
beat them at the game of theft.
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and believe him to be a much ma
ligned man. feel sure that he is a
man Of great ability in many ways,
but somehow the popular pulse does
not beat his way.
1 am sorry I have to differ somewhat
from the opinions of DR.. Schurman, as
they have been published in the dis
patches. Perhaps these are not his opin-
ions, but I think he is very right if he
believes that the people of the towns and
provinces are practically able to run their
own affairs. 1 did not think this way at
first, but study and observation have con-
vinced me that the Filipinos have a good
deal of latent intelligence. 1 do not
agree, however, with DR.. Schurman if he
thinks that the sphere of hostility to
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SPECULATION AS TO
THE CHARTER DECISION
Supreme Court Will Adjourn the
Session in Los Angeles Mon
day and Come Here.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-Attaches in
and about the Supreme Court chambers
have been bothered all day with inquiries
as to when the decision upon the San
Francisco charter may be expected. Hun
dreds of inquiries have been pouring in on
the subject during the past twenty-four
hours. There has been no official intima-
ton anywhere, so far as can be learned,
that the decision is to be delivered while
the court is in session here. San Fran
cisco, however, is evidently of that opin-
ion. The Supreme Court will conclude its
labors here tomorrow evening, and most
of the members will arrive in San Fran
cisco on, the owl train Saturday morning
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NAV Contest a Will.

SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 12.-John Doyle, re-
Gently deceased left an estate to r.
Jones and wife, at whose house he had
stayed. In his will he stipulated that
none of his relatives should receive any
share of the property, valued at $5000 He
had not had anything to do with his reia-
tives for many years. A contest is now
in prospect as to-day Rose Doyle of
Springfield, Mass, through her attorneys,
announced her appearance in the matter
of petition to probate the will. She is
a niece of the deceased. Some years ago.
through inquiries made for Doyle's rela-
tives in Ireland, she learned that he re-
sided in this country. She Is the only
living relative.
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so that both we and
they should have our minds made up as
to what our permanent relations should
be. The manner of dealing with the peo-
pie of Sulu is, 1 believe, the proper one
in dealing with the Filipinos, although
opponents of the administration will say,
with some degree of justice, that we
should not have encouraged the Datto
Mundi, the Mohammedan, to take venge-
ance on the Christians of Mindanao.
This will undoubtedly be used by the
hostile press. Moreover, to send Indians
to the Philippines will be apt to have a
reactionary effect upon the people of the
country, because it was one of the OBJ
jections made by William Pitt in the
House of Commons that England intro
duced into her warfare with the Americans
the "scalping knife and the tomahawk of
the savage"
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W dls-
patches that two soldiers have been
sentenced to death for maltreating
women. If this be true, you will see the
ground for my remark.
Fourth-Our Congress ought to be
called at once to give the Filipinos
scme promise of government. It is
claimed by men familiar with the
subject in Luzon that our Govern
ment has not promised them any
thing except the most attenuated
generalities. The Chino-Tagals, who
are the leaders in the movement, are
among the shrewdest men on earth.
They know the difference between an
absolute statement and a diplomatic
evasion, and unless some promise is
made of a very definite character, in
my Judgment the war will not cease
with the conquest of Aguinaldo.
LEADERS OF REVOLUTION
BEST OF FILIPIN0S
Fifth-The Tagals who are at the head
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SENSATIONAL REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINES
JUST FILED BY A SPECIAL GOVERNMENT AGENT


of
ahorS with Assistant Secretary of War Mekeohn
plain exhaustive portrayal of the true condition affairs the Philip
Government
heart official couon tells plainly and directly the jealousy chickering's and dis
the public the shameful treatment the wives and daughters the natives
eas the public life both
this
administration extraordinary
0
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der theSpanish rule as they are now under
our martial law. OF course, they under
stand that it is war time, but to have
martial law for more than a year In a city
of 100000 inhabitants must work hardship
TO the vast mass Of the people. I have
often talked to Filipinos, and found they
were brooding over these taxes and feel
ing that it was a wrong and an outrage.
You cannot convince them that it was
military necessity, and so one Of the
measures necessary to bring the war to a
close keeps it going on.
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assaulted and beaten three times on the
Journey from my room, No. Is Plaza
Santa, to the steamship Sherman in Ma
Mia harbor.
The second day after the first negro
regiment landed in Manila 1 saw a negro
soldier take the money belt off China
man in front of Major DevoPs Office amid
the laughter of our own people, civilians
and soldiers. Corporal Harvey of Major
Devols office threw a Filipino on the
paving stones just because he was in the
way. An assistant clerk in the same office
struck Filipino standing beside me on
the stomach. On being demonstrated with
he exclaimed, He is only a damned
niger"
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America is a small
one. In fact, the
gruff behavior Of our
people, especially in
Manila, is very Of
fensive to the people
of the islands. l am
upheld in this belief
by men unbiased like
the French, German
and Russian corre-
spondents, men who
really like the Amer
leans. Most Of the
unprejudiced Ameri-
cans think the same
way. We are too free
and ga SV In gOm o
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began TO assume the
ugly phases of a race
war. The new regi-
ments do not have
the caliber of men
that the volunteers
had. They are more
apt to kick and cuff
the natives. Langley
Jones of the Associ-
ated Press assures
me that he saw on
the Escolta, from his
room in the English
hotel, over a hun
d r e d unjustifable
assaults by Ameri
cans on Filipinos.
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HERE ARE Few OF THE IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS THAT WERE
REACHED BY THE GOVERNMENTS AGENT.

GGUND0
will
and civilians Il Philippines
the undoubtedly
the Red sold
governing t
government
The Filipino Peace Commissioners dpIomafas
head
published all marriages
void
While
cokfghts (Which N
surprised John
protection
There good deal jealousy the
offices filled
Philippines
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fact that we retain
the impractical du-
ties of the Spanish
regime in force. The
continuing of these
Spanish laws, in my
judgment. is an irri-
tant to the people,
and only makes the
wound opened by the
war still deeper and
more eXasperating.
The European resi-
dents who have lived
in Manila for many
years assert univer-
sally that taxes were
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lnere IS no use
civilian trying to get
into Luzon just now
to start a business
because if he takes
in his merchandise
honestly through the
Gu S t o m house it
would be impossible
for him to make a
living. These things
are not pleasant to
say, but when your
own Countrymen all
through the city
laugh and sneer at
such things there
must be some truth
in them 7 know that
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CAPTAIN WRITINGS POST.

WASHINGTON, Oct 12-The Navy De-
partment has assigned Captain William
H. Whiting to the post of commander of
the Norfolk Navy Yard in place of Cap
tain Rockwell. The place was given to
Captain Greene, but that officer being
disposed to retire next spring, declined
the assignment. Captain Whiting is now
at Honolulu, whittier he was called by
the illness Of his wife
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Third-Mart

be abolished as soon
as possible. There
seems TO be no rea-
sonable ground for it
at present. The Span
ish taxes ought to be
recast at once, if fur
ther trouble, both
with Americans and
foreigners, is to be
avoided. Absolutely
strict discipline of
our soldiers in their
relation to the ma
tives, especially to
the women, is neces-
sary. 1 note in the
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movement was, to get down from Arayat to
Mexico, and from Mexico to San Fernan-
do, and thus flank Aguinaldo and hold
him between Malolos and San Fernando.
The military men and foreign attaches
whom 1 have talked with about this
maneuver all seemed to feel that we had
accomplished absolutely nothing by Law
toms expedition north and Macarthur $
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IIldl Md dheS II ullli-
cult to force matters
to a focus with the
Filipinos. Thus, for
example, when Law
ton went to San Isl
dro MacArthur's di-
vision moved up the
railway to San Fer
nando, driving the
enemy before 1t and
letting him escape
a C 70 s S the open
fields. whereas it
seemed to those who
were on the ground
that the only logical
-oa-N- fA- I o-tAr,t1
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ed The deepest danger in the Philip
pines is that we have men in high
offices there who are utterly incapable
of studying the problem from a psy-
Geological standpoint; who can do no
governing but simply to damn and
kick .'niggers."
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can p 7 o [ e c [ o 7 q [ e
would satisfy the
people. We might ar
range for a conven-
tion at the end of ten
years to determine
by a public vote Of
the Filipinos what
form of government
they wanted. If, in
the eyes of the civil
lied world, the Fill
pinos at the end Of
ten years were unfit
for self-goyernment,
by that time matters
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SKELETON OF A MAN
FOUND ON THE DESERT
Belief Expressed That the Bleached
Bones Are Those of Murderer
Iarnas Daraiels
James Daniels

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 12-The skeleton
of a man was found on the desert near
discovery was made nine miles from the
Phoenix mine in canyon where Jack
Ford was killed in April by Jim Daniels.
lieved by the officers here that he re-
turned to the spot where the killing oc
Cured and eaded his life and the skele-
ton found is his remains. Coroner john
stone will go to the place where the bones
were found tomorrow.
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THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED.

In conclusion let me sum up. First, we
need to study the question psychological
ly. These people are not as our people
Our very voices rasp them. Individual
Americans, civilians and soldiers, treat
them arrogantly, as if already they were
our slaves. The Filipinos never forget;
they never forgive; they are highly sensi-
tive, easy to flatter, but impossible to fool; :;
they are very bitter, very brave, very per-
sstent. We need on our side great tact,
absolute discipline, stainless honor, in
corruptible honesty-otherwise a legacy of
hate and bloodshed. This is as certain as
the DEGREES of God.
SecondIy-For the Philippines we
must have civil service. There are
instances all over of incop1petency.
Captain Hanna, captain Of the port
of Iloilo, is not fit for the place I
saw him behave in very ungentIe-
manly way to a Spanish captain.
Many other things show that he is
no man for the place. There are doz-
ems of such men, and they are poIit-
ical appointees, and are no good in
such positions, but do us lots of harm
If the Offices cannot be filed by men
of merit it will be dangerous for the
United States to hold the Philippines.
Third-Martial law in Manila ought to