The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-11
AS Seen by a Clergyman.

do wisely in carefully scanning
the interview with the Rev.
Peter Mcqueen, originally published in
the Boston Globe and reproduced in
this issue. The Globe is not in any
proper sense an anti-exr ansion jour
nal, and has shown no disposition to
search for evidence tending to place
the administration in the wrong AS
Mr.. Mcqueen is a Protestant clergy
man, while the Filipinos are almost
universally Roman Catholics, it is man.
ifest that he can have no especial bias
in their favor, and his statements show
conclusively that he knows whereof he
speaks.
He begins by saying that the peo-
pie Of this country started in at Manila
with sincere purpose to do justice to
the ,Filipinos. When 1 reached Luzon
in March, along with General Lawton,
the war had begun Many believe the
causes that led to the war could have
been avoided. AS long as Admiral
Dewey was in full charge every pledge
was fulfilled. the Filipinos universally
satisfied" Coming from a man who
has been upon the ground, who is OBJ
vously one of intelligence and culture,
who is familiar with the situation and
| who can have no possible motive for
| Misrepresentation, this language is in
| the highest degree significant
Not only so, but there is more be-
tween the lines than there is in the
| lines themselves. BY the very plainest
| possible implication the reverend gen.
| tleman says that, although the Amer
| leans started in to do justice to the
| Filipinos, that purpose was subse-
| quently abandoned.
! Many believe" he says, "the causes
| that led to the war could have been
| avoided" How? In the next sentence
he tells u.s. LAS long as Admiral Dewey
| was in charge every pledge was full
| filled. the Filipinos universally salts
fed" What does that mean? 1t means
| that if the American authorities had
continued to keep their pledges as
Dewey did, the Filipinos would have
continued to be universally satisfied
If it does not mean that. then there
| is no I1ledHlIS Ill ldIlS
But Mr.. MacQueen does not leave 1t
to mere implication. 1t will be OBJ
served that in the very next paragraph
he states that with the coming of
| General Merritt the devilment began
And then he tells US that Merritt is a
naughty martinez" who sent Infer
ior officers to negotiate with Aguinaldo
and then when Aguinaldo came for the
fulfillment of agreements made by the
officers thus sent, General Merritt
haughtily said that he had had nc
dealings with the insurgents"
Briefly stated, the situation seems tC
have been this: After the battle Of
He could of course, have taken Manila
by commandment, but that would have
| been barbarous and he could not have
commanded an inch of territory be
yond the range of his guns. He wa
absolutely dependent upon Aguinaldt
so far as land operations were con
cerned, and virtually treated him as al
ally. They co-operated in military ant
naval movements, aided each other ant
were great friends to use Admira
Dewey's own expression. But just
soon as Merritt got there and foun
himself at the head of an army capa
BILE of acting alone, Aguinaldo ceased
be either an ALLY" or friend an
became plain "insurgent'
There can be no doubt that this wa
by the order of the administration an
that the fault lies there. Much NOR
Mr.. MacQueen says that is worthy c
careful study. Among other things ma
be mentioned the statement that tn
army he accompanied started out I
distribute peace proclamations; that
killed one hundred and fifty Filipino:
wounded three hundred and distribute
one tract; that the European resident
declare that the taxes are more grleN
Gus now than they were under Spar
ish rule; that the Filipino commission
ers out -argued us on every point, an
that the Tagals who are at the nea
of the revolution are the brightest an
best of all the Filipinos. Mr.. Mac
Queens concluding statement is a b'
= lief that autonomous government unde
an American protectorate would satisf
Il the Filipinos and he leaves no room Il
doubt that he thinks they are entitle
to it.
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