The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-27
AL SORTS OF WAR TALK
Te Standards Washington Bu-
teau Turns In Big Grist of It.
FIXING FOR A LONG FIGHT
Some Things That A1ger Didn't Do.
Roots Show of Zeal Expected to
Pan Out Well-Colonel Ken
mons Western Men.
Washington Bureau of the Standard, !
No. 1145 q Street n. w.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 24.-The
ly seven months and the situation in
the islands does not seem to have been
greatly altered since that fourth day
of February on which was fought the
second battle of Manila. This war has
certainly continued much longer than
the active fighting in the Franco Ger
man war of 1870 or the Turco- Russian
struggles between European nations
since our civil war; and even the recent
Chino-Japan war which so changed the
map Of the East, was over and done for
in much less time
The preparations which are being
made in this country for the ending of
the Philippine war are apparently
made on the theory that it will continue
several months longer for it is not ex-
pected or even claimed that the archi-
pelago can be "pacified"-that is the
manner in which the old "conqueror'' is
now rendered-untl the new regiments
are all in the islands.
When the last of the new regiments
has reached Manila the United States
will be fully launched upon the imperial
policy of expansion. With her stand
ing army quadrupled and the cost of
her military establishment vastly in
creased the government can proceed
to repeat in Luzon the course of the
British in Afghanistan and Burmah,
the French in Algiers and Madagascar
and of Russia in Caucausia and Turk
estan. Let us hope that America will
have few of the vast difficulties that
have impeded the conquests of our i'm
perial sister nations. We shall not care
to repeat the bitter experiences of the
British in the Soudan or the French in
Tonqun. And good Americans will
earnestly pray that our brave boys will
be spared the fate of the Italians in
Abyssinia or theB ritish in Zuuland.
When the new leyies have reached
the Philippines the work of quietng the
islands will be begun by the war de-
partment in earnest. A large part of
the 20 new regiments will be in the ISL
ands. according to the present plans of
the administration by the first of Oc-
tober, and Secretary Root expects to
have the last of his recruits in the
trenches before Christmas.
1t is also claimed that the secretary
will recommend that the president ask
congress, upon its assembling, to nrO-
vide for large reserve of perhaps Is or
20 regiments, ready for use in further
emergency. 1t will be remembered that
1T was at first proposed to make the 10
regiments called for last week re-
serve, but instead OF being IN any sense
reserved" they are to be rushed to
Luzon with haste rarely known in the
case of raw recruits. If there are any
reserves organized under act of con-
sress they will also speedily be up
against the real thing" unless Aguinal-
do and his forces are defeated and
dispersed before that time 1t would of
course, be interesting as we'll as novel;
to have congress, the only constitutional
king power. represented in the
Philippine war, as it would be if it ap-
proved additional levies for that pur-
pose. For, as is well known, up to this
writing, congress has never authorized
the Philippine war
1t is evident that the administration
expects to make a distinct hit with the
secretary of wars much-praised new
policy of recruiting the volunteer army
up to the full limit allowed under leg
islation and rushing the regiments to
the Philippines. The late secretary of
war. General Alger. long since urged