The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-26
FLOCKING BY ITSELF.


The local Republican organ refers to
"a certain class of newspapers that
have been ''praising AguinaIdo as a
Washington or a Kosciusco, doing what
they could TO demoralize our soldiers in
the field
Now that is what may be called
rare exhibition of unadulterated gaI.
There is but one newspaper in the
United States that has compared Agui-
naldo to George Washington, and por-
trayed the cause of the Filipinos at the
the time the fortunes of war made our
army their allies as higher, grand
er cause than that for which our Rev
dictionary forefathers fought between
1775 and 1888. 1t is the Salt Lake Trib-
une. If it alone constitutes "a class of
newspapers" its observation is cor
rect.
But when it denounces as "hysterical
old fools" and traitors those who claim
that the Philippine outbreak could have
been averted and that It may require a
great deal longer to subdue the natives
than we had counted upon, it should
have care. 1t is throwing stones from
its glass house again.
On the 18th Of February, 1899, the
Tribune said, editorially:
The fighting around Manila these DAYS
makes many anxious hearts in Utah. No
sooner is one DAYS fighting over and the
list OF Killed and wounded is given. than
anothet fight begins, and the suspense 10
get the next list is as great as before.
And to think that a little firmness and
common sense would have averted il all
been sadly wanting III AIcKinley's con-
duct of affairs there. If half the tact
had been shown in the Philippines that
General Miles displayed in Porto Rico.
this needless slaughter OF natives, this
unnecessary sacrifice Of American SOL
diers would have been averted. For the
friction which arose from INDIGESTION
and incompetency would not have
brought on the conflict.
AS to when the war viii end, no one
knows. So many false hopes have been
built up 10y an imperial censorship to
be dashed down by occasional glimpses
of truth that the whole country has
been deliberately and persiA gently de-
ccived, not only as to the wishes of the
volunteers, but the condition of both
armies and the honest opinions of the
officers in the field. The files Of our
morning contemporary show this.
Either it has been buncoed or It has
been q party to the deception practiced
upon the public. THE news indicates"
II said on the first OF last March, that
the forces of Aguinaldo are beginning
TO disintegrate." On the 18th of the
same month it announced that the war
was about over.
-Four days later it caught a CLEAN of
the truth and said: 1.-The situation in
the Philippines is disquieting. 1t seems
that the fighting around Manila is not
all that is going on; that in Panay the
rebels are just as active and just as
vicious as are those under Aguinaldo."
On the 5th of April it rejoiced that
General Otis had broken the backbone
off hguinaldo's insurTection. 1.-The news
rom the Philippines is most Joyful" it
remarked on the 2sth of April. 1T in
d;cates that the anxiety is well-nigh
rast. that the war is practically
closed"
Yet the fercest fighting has been
s.rce that time, as it confessed on the
18th of June and in subsequent issues.
when General Lawton says it viii
take from 100, O0O to 10000 men to sub
due the Fiiipinos, and General King
saws that il may require several years
to accomplish the undertaking, and
soreier Ulcers predict that We have at