The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-08
ADVICE TO ANTI-EXPANSIoNISTS
Floyd Il. White Tells Them for Heav-
ems sake to Shut Up.

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Guthrie, o. T., Nov. 7.-Floyd E. White,
a graduate of the Oklahoma City high
school, and noted as football player and
all-round athlete, some months ago en-
listed in the volunteer army as private
and is now seeing active service on the
firing line in the Philippines. In a letter
to the Times-Journal written under date
Of September 80, Private White expresses
his opinion of Aguinaldo's American allies
in the following blunt words: For heav-
ems sake, tell the people to shut up I'M
til we do the job up, as their talk hurts
ALL" The entire letter is interesting be-
cause Of its portrayal Of army life by
private soldier, and it is here reproduced:
1.-The City of Sidney landed her men
here September 10 at noon and eighty
nine Of US were marched four miles to the
Thirteenth regiment at Panay for sup
per. We were thirty-one days coming
over, including coaling at Yokohama and
two days at Nagasaki, where ave got
shore leave and visited the ill-fated Nor
gan City boys. Our trip over was marred
by three days had storm, the waves
running fifty feet high and one hundred
and fifty feet from crest to crest. 1t kept
US busy holding ourselves in our hunks.
The $50 marines aboard went to Cavite,
eight miles ACROSS the bay. Our regiment
is extended along the trenches from the
bay north five miles, and our company is
first from the beach. We are camped in
bamboo shacks built next the trenches.
Here is where some heavy fighting was
done by the Spaniards and the Filipinos
and then captured by the Americans.
1--WE are not allowed to leave here at all
as trench call may be sounded any mo-
ment Last night we got telegram that
there was heavy fighting at linus, eight
miles away, and to hold the trenches, so
half the regiment went on guard at a
time. We saw nothing Of the "goo-goos,"
however.
MY first breakfast was relished by
wading nearly knee deep in water a quar-
ter of a mile and standing in six inches |
Of water around the kitchen to eat it. |
Our feet are wet here for days at a time, |
but all this doesn't seem to cause much |
sickness. The great trouble is the heat
and beno, the native drink. This beno is
awful and makes men crazy. The officers
sent one poor corporal day before yes
terday to the guard house for being loco
(crazy) on 1t, and it was his first drink
Of liquor in three and half years. Our
beer here is ten cents a glass.
IF you want credit from the natives
until payday you ask for j'awbone The
amigos friends) are good natured and
Jolly but not to be trusted. We fare bet
ter on subsistence here than we did in
the Preside, where there was plenty, and
have Australian fresh meat every day.
we carry 100 rounds with US all the time
and on a march $50.
1--WE are going to see some hard fight
ng in a month and clean them up. They
have lots of rifles, and even bran new
Mausers; besides, there are several mig
gers to take each rifle when the other
man is killed. The bolo men do lots of
ambushing. These bolos are long knives
with long handles.
1.-The natives are very religious and all
he women wear rosary beads around
heir necks. They wear short sack
made of thin, light material, but always
!
Der seeing a hat on them since I have
)een here. Their everyday garb is very
limited. The loads they carry on their
heads are astonishing.
1.-THE caribou is used for all he IS worth,
nut requires water externally as well as
about every two hours. If left
alone in a pool he will hold his head I'M
Ter for two minutes at a time. He is al
ways hitched to a two-wheeled heavy
art, with nothing but yoke of bamboo !
over his neck and a rope under his neck
o hold down the shafts.
IF you Josh the young girls very
much they will tell you to get under the
sink The hair of the little tots is done
Up in a tight knot on the back of their
heads.
This country ought to be of great
-alue as soon as the war is over, but for
heavens sake tell the people to shut up
lntil we do the job up. as their talk hurts
H."