Hutchinson gazette., 1899-03-02
A SPANlARD TALKS.
He Gives Ills Viows Concerning
tho Philippine Islands.
THE EILIPIyOS HARD TO GOVERN
The American Government VIII Find
II Costly 60 sublugato Them
and Dlnlcult 10 kulo
pI,s Them, ALL

OF the present troubles at Manila The
opinion OF o. Spanish colonel who has
been stationed for many years In the
Philippines and has done n great deal
of active fighting against the pagal
insurgents wlll be of particular inter
est Just now TO Americans, Accord
Ing TO n trustworthy correspondent
who forwarded the report Of the in-
tervlew ITO Washington, he expressed
himself aS follows concerning the
task arising TO the United States
Through Spain having resigned the
Philippines to the Unlon'
"'rhe Spanish people are feeling as
II delivered from dangerous sickness
by means OF painful operation. 1t
Eeels, although still rather weak, con-
slderably better. The sickness was
the revolution of the Philippine
islands, lasting for years and deyour'
ing mlll,ons; the operation Is the loss
OF the islands, and though 1t Is painiul
to our nNthonal pride it Is far better
bhat another takes lhe burden upon
his shoulders. The expenditure
llone while was out there amounted
10 many millions, which might have
been used TO better advantage for our
own country. But all these sums
would have dwindlol down into insig-
nlncancc compared with the money
which The actual submission OF the
islands would have cost MS after the
insurgents had nearly proved Them
selves our supelIors I'm arms, For
such troplcal wars are extremely eX'
penslve, thirty to forty millions being
SPENT almost over night. Besides,
we should have wanted u strong fleet
OF express steamers for transporting
our troops and % flotlla OF
cruisers, TO say nothing OF ain army OF
100000 men,
'lEor years wa have committed the
bault OF keeping too few troops IN The
Philippines. But THE home govern
ment, being OF a saving turn Of mind
invariably replied TO all our urgent re-
quests, No importa. Tt does mot
matter, try to get along The Amcrl'
cams will have the same experience,
and believe that Mr.. Otis and Mr.,
Miller will receive from Washington
replies similar Ito those which were re-
ceived i'm our time from the palarlo.
Well, today NJ Is our part 10 say No
lnpurta.' must own that | am do
ings not without q certain malice, The
Americans pretended to deliver the
Islands from our rule; now they are
the masters there, but, openly said,
they are mot so--at least not yet,
The Union has everything Of which
vie were in want. Money and money
again, ships crews and also the in.
r cllnaton TO an adventure Of which we
had grown disgusted long ago.
"Hftherto the results have been in
Significant for the following reasons:
They treated the natives, who knew
nothing but rigor, quite as whites.
This was the first fault, for the AFRO
gance of these people that had been
already large will now increase be-
yons lall endurance. The Americans
commenced further to discuss and ar
pure matters with them, instead OF
commanding them, That was the
second fault. And then hopes and
promises were held out Ito them that
could not and cannot possibly be kept,
But the last and worst fault is the
weakness shown so long by the Ameri'
cans. These faults have doue the
GREATEST Imaginable damage TO the
reputation of the whites ON the ISL
ands. The educated among the Ma
bays are Ito be counted the inhaIbi'
tants consisting for the greater part
of half Chinese, half Europeans and
half Arabs. Pure Tagals with
European education are very rare,
and EVEN they are very often subject
TO terrible ATTACKS of their original
Bavagemess.
"One of our most powerful weapons
against these people was our Roman
Catholic Church, which, however, will
mott be ait THE service of the Amerl-
cans, and already the opinion is
spreading among the Filipinos that
OH the Americans are bad pagans, far
worse tham the still very savage ma
live mountain TRIBES who, for all THAT
consist ait least of baptized Christians.
Not a single monk in the Philippines
will believe that am American here
tic would have been baptized. The
four religious orders established ON
the islands maintained there, even in
the most Distant regi,ops, order as for
MS this was possible, and There was at
least kind Of organization always
extending throughout the country.
All this will now be lost. And still
more. Our centenariam division OF
the islands and their administration
Through skilled staff of officials pos
sessing tine most intimate knowledge
Of tine Iilipinos and their ways are al
together strange to America, which,
moreover, does not possess colonies as,
for instance, England, ON which to
draw for experienced officials. As
tor the Malay, he is Of temperament
Fery difficult to manage, and one Shat
will give much trouble to the ruing
power. In short, we shall see how
Shs Americans will prove. themselves