Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-12-15

transportation for the American army, as it
was to fight in the cause of your people. So
far we have received no response. As you
represent your people, now have the honor
to make requisItlon on you for 700 horses and
81 oxen ana ox-carts. page 3M.)
1t is idle, after all this and more, and
the subsequent actual cooperation of the
two armies in the capture of Manila, for
Prof. Worcester, under claim of special
knowledge. 20 declare that there was no
alliance and that Aguinaldo's claim to in
dependence for his people was but an
afterthOught. That he has the hardi.
hood to do so, indicates how utterly
worthless are his claims to speak with
authority in refutatlon of those who are,
he says, "too mean and small to take a
broad view of any subject"
Prof. Worcester says, touching the
fact that Aguinaldo was given reason to
expect independence: "Consul Pratt and
Admiral Dewey have often been named
as the guilty men," Guilty of what?
Why, guilty of the henous offense that
they believed for a time in the good
sumed that it would do in the Philippines
what it hadssolemnly pledged itself to do
In CUBA. 1t is to the honor of Consul.
General Pratt and Admiral Dewey that
they did not imagine that 1t was Mr..
McKinley's purpose to transform a war
of liberation in Cuba into war of
terminal aggression" in the Philippines.
1t appears that Prof. Worcester's Off
clal view of the character and deserts of
opinion. Late in the year 1898 he pub
lished his book, "The Philippine Islands"
which has led to his prominence in the
present controversy. That book was
result of an extended Journey through
The islands some years before. Ia the
first chapter, referring to the lnsurrec-
tion of 1896, he says:
''Then came fresh revolt, which was
rapidly assuming dangerous proportions
when Admiral Dewey's wonderful Victory
over the Spanish fleet gave it such an i'm
petus as no other rising in the Philip.
pines has ever had. When one considers
the treatment which has been accorded
| to captured rebels by the Spaniards, he
cannot fail to admire the elf.restraint
shown by the insurgents during the op-
erations which followed" page 2O.)
1t appears that prior to his first visit,
Prof. Worcester regarded some of the
people as civilized and entitled to aspire
to better things. At the close of one OF
his later chapters he says:
SIN the four months which separate
May l, 1898, from the day when the
manuscript for this volume leaves my
hands, important events have crowded
on each others heels as never before iu
the history of the archipelago. What.
ever may be the immediate outcome, it il
safe to say that having learned some.
thing of his power, the civilized native
will now be likely to take hand il
shaping his own future. trust that op
portunities which he has never enjoyed
may be given to him. If not, may he
win them for himself" page 1922
1t can hardly be necessary to carry
further these comparisons between the
records and what Prof. Worcester now
says. 1t is charitable to assume that hi
Is unfamiliar with the official records
Anyway, he Is no longer to be regarded
as an expert anxious to state but the
truth. We must henceforth look upon
him as part of the machinery fol
benevolent assimilation" -an apologisl
for predetermined course, an advocate
of the proposition that unfitness for self
government renders an alien people fl
for American citizenship In bulk.
EDWIN BURRITT SMITH.
Chicago, Nov. IS, 1899.