The times., 1899-06-11
SUNDAY. JUNE IL, 1893.
parkhur>t and the ri,ipinos.

The invitation extended TO Dr. Park
hurst by the Filipino junta in Paris, to
come over TO Manila and be one Of them,
must be. considered as involving a COM
pliment to one who has tackled tenderloin
conditions almost as difficult, perhaps. as
the subjugation of the Tagals TO the
academic ideas OF Schurman and Worces-
ter. or securing their cooperation in the
industrial and other practical principles OF
DENLY.
We are not advised that the prominent
New York reformer has ever given the en-
couragement to Aguinaldos insurrection
that would Justify that barbarian rebels
friends in considering him as of their par
ty To the best of our knowledge, DR..
Parkhurst is an American and not an ad-
herent OF any combination seeking to as
sail our national honor or the integrity OF
cur flag or position in our colonial pos
sessions. The heather in his blindness
evidently has missed the point in the good
clergyman's attitude. When. in his
Thanksgiving sermon, he said that he
would rather be "a naked Filipino cayort-
ing around the woods of LuZon than a
North American Indian bossed by the In
dian Bureau he only meant TO give an
extreme but perfectly justifable illustra-
tion OF the Ills which have afflicted our
aboriginal brethren under the benign op-
erstions of the Hanna system OF Indian
administration, and which will now be-
come even more terrible in view OF re-
turn TO the spoils system OF official ap-
1~,- arr MI
From the remarks made by DR. Parkhprst
the Tagal mutineers have deduced the idea
that he is an Indian himself. We do not
so much blame them for that, because he
really has shown some actively good Amer
lean red Indian prceiivities in the way he
remembers his enemies. But they were
wrong, of course. in assuming that he
actually longed to be a naked Filipino and
cavort- His cloth, his spectacles and his
sense of propriety would all revolt at the
very idea of such thing.
The lesson conveyed in the Filipino in
vitation 10 DR.. Parkhurst is so painfully
plain that apologies must be offered for
referring to il. 1t is a horrible evidence
of Malay ingratitude and treachery. Here
in the United States are several earnest
admirers of the aims and head-hunting.
and mutilating methods and practices OF
the noble natives; men who have done all
ney could TO promote the interests of the
nutiny. and to prevent our Government
from suppressing it. They have warned
our volunteers in the Philippines not to
re-enlist. They have melted them to re-
volt. They have assured the Insurgents
that there is a large element In this coun-
try with them, heart and soul. And yet
neither Aguinaldo. Agoncillo. Lopez, nor
any other Of the outfit ever seems to think
Of inviting these academic rebels TO be
naked Filipinos and cavort,
1t is really saddening. and we thinl
that Senator Hoar, Norton Eliot. Larry
Godkin. Edward Atkinson, Joseph Pulitz-
er. and the late Grover Cleveland all have
reason TO feel affronted. AS for Park
hurst We are perfectly confident that he
will stick to the land of the free and the
home OF the brave and also the tenderloin;
and that he will neither become decoi-
lete, a Filipino nor cayorter