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ton; Of the exchanges between Admiral
Dewey and the other American command
ers and the insurgents; the breaking out
and progress OF the present instruction,
and, finally. a statement of capacity of the
FiHpinos for self government. notable
feature of the report is 4 memorandum by
Admiral Dewey, explanatory of his rela-
tons with Aguinaldo.
The report begins with the following
statement:
The undersigned commissioners, APP
pointed by You 10 investigate affairs in the
Philippine islands and to report the result
Of their Investigations. together with such
recommendations az might, in their judg
ment, be called for by the conditions which
should be found to exist in these Islands,
have the honor 10 submit the following
preliminary statement in compliance with
your request
The commission next tells briefly how 1t
conducted the task intrusted to 1t, hear
ing statements from all classes of people
III Manila as to the capabilities of the Fill
pin0s for solf-g1Vernment, the habits and
customs Of the people, and also the estab-
LshnieHt IF municipal governments in many
towns All this matter is to be included in
the final Tc4urr.
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quest of General Otis, a new and simplified
scheme of government for the island, Civ
Ing the people a large voice in their af-
fairs. but placing an American full
control was put into operation. 1t brought
about satisfaction, and public order is bet
ter In the island today than at any time
during the last twenty years. Summarize
ing the failure of the native form of gov
eminent, and the success of the American
control, the commission says:
The fiat failure of this attempt to estab-
llsh an Independent native government in
Negros, conducted as it was under the
most favorable circumstances makes it ap-
parent that here as well as in the less
favored provinces a large amount of
American control is at present absolutely
essential to successful administration of
public affairs
Attempts to COnciliate AguinnIdO.
The efforts at cancellation with Agui-
naldO and his various commissioners are
set forth in detail. These commissioners
were assured of the beniticent purposes of
the United States and the Presidents read
iress to grant the Filipino people as large
a measure of home rule and as ample lib
erty as consistent with the ends Of gov
eminent, subject only to the recognition
Of the sovereignty of the United States-a
point which, being established, the commits
sion Invariably refused even to discuss
Inc commission adds that nothing came
of negotiations. as Aguinaldos ennis
sartes We're without powers and mercy
came, and came again, for information
Courteous reception was accorded to the
insurgent commissions, and earnest appeals
made to stop further bloodshed, all wit
Messing the spirit Of patient conciliation''
exhibited by the American commission in
endeavoring to reach an amicabie adjust
ment with the insurgents, as well as the
obduracy of Aguinaldo. The report sums
up the result of these fruitless exchanges
follows:
NO better proof could be furnished that
the primary object of his struggle is not,
as is pretended, the liberty of the Filipino
peoples but the continuance of his own
arbitrary and despotic power. In any
event. the American people may feel conf
dent that no effort was omitted by the
commission to secure peaceful end of the
struggle, but the opportunities 1t offered
and urged were all neglected, if not. indeed
spurned."
The chapter devoted to capacity for self
government is the result. the report
states. of diligent inquiry for several
months, in the course of which a great
number of witnesses Were examined, Of all
shades of political thought and varieties of
occupation, tribe and locality. The most
striking and perhaps the most significant
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Calamianes Islanders had sent word that
they would welcome us. There can be no
resistance in Palawan. Satisfactory rela-
tons had already been established with
the warlike Moros, whose sultan had pre-
viously been conciliated by a member of
the commission, and in Mndanao this tribe
haS even taken up our cause and attacked
the insurgents, of whom there are very
few in the island. In Cebu have only
TO reckon with the lawless element. which
has never been very formidable there
Special attention is given to the Island of
Negros, this seemed field we'll adapted
to the extension of an American system.
Here the natives had adopted a local form
Of government, including a congress. and
had raised the American fog. They be-
Beved themselves capable of managing
their own affairs and asked for a battalion
OF troops to hold in check a mountainous
band of fanatics. The battalion was fur
nshed, but the people proved unable to
carry out their program, owing to i'll
feeling among their own officials. The
Americans remained popular At the re-
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The commission gives general view OF
the value of the islands, their richness in
agricultural and forest products, their min
eral wealth, and their commanding geo.
graphical position. They state that the FL
ipino Islands should soon become one Of
the great trade centers Of the east Ma
MIA Is already connected by new steam
ship lires with Australia, India and japan
and she Will become the natural terminus
of many other lines when a ship canal con-
meets the Atlantic with the Pacific Ii can
not be doubted that commerce win greatly
increase. and the United States will obtain
large share in this increment. Manila with
the immunity which ii has thus far enjoyed
from that terrible pest, the bubonic plague
should become a distributing center for
China, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Ton
gum, AnUlm and Australia, The report
concludes:
Our control means 10 The inhabitants Of
the Philippines internal peace and order 4
guarantee against foreign aggression and
against the dismembermcnt OF their coun-
try. commercial and Industrial prosperity
and as large a share Of the affairs OF gov
eminent as they shall prove fit to take
When peace and prosperity shall have been
established throughout the archiDelago
when education shall have become general
then, in the language Of a leading Filipino
his people VIII, under our guidance, BE
come more American that the Americans
themselves"
The report is signed by J. C. Schurnan.
George Dewey, Charles Denly and Dean
6. Worcester.
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withdrawn, the commission believe that the
government of the Philippines would speed
lily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse,
if il did not necessitate, the intervention of
other powers and the eventual division Of
the islands among them. Only through
American occupation, therefore, is the idea
of a free, self-governing and united Philip
pine commonwealth at all conceivable. Ana
the Indispensable need from the Filipino
point of view of maintaining American SOW
ereigntY over the archipelago Is recognized
by all intelligent Fflipfnos and even by
those insurgents who desire an American
protectorate. The latter, II is true. would
take the revenues and leave US the reSpon-
sibilities. Nevertheless, they recognize the
indubitable fact that the Filipinos cannot
stand alone. Thus the welfare of the Fill
pinos comedies with the dictates of ma
tionaI honor in forbidding our abandonment
of the archipelago. We cannot, from any
point of view, escape the responsibilities
of government which our sovereignty en-
suaded that the performance of our ma
tional duty will prove the greatest blessing
TO the peoples of the Philippine Islands.
Tribute to Soldiers and sailors.
One of the closing chapters of the re
port is devoted to a tribute to cur sol
diers and sailors in the war" The com
mission says hat the presence Of Admiral
Dewey as a member of this body makes it
uniting to dwell on its personal achieve
ments, but he joins in the eulogy of his
comrades. The commission witnessed some
of the many brave deeds of our soldiers,
and they declare that all that skill. cour-
age and a patient endurance can do has
been done in the Philippines. They dis
miss the reports of tire Decorating OF
churches, the numbering of prisoners and
the committing of unmentonable crimes,
and say they are glad to express the be-
lief that a war was never more hamanely
conducted, saying:
If churches were occupied 1t was only
as a military necessity, and frequently as
their use as forts by the insurgents had
made it necessary to train our artillery upon
them. Prisoners were taken whenever OPP
portunity offered. often only TO be set at
liberty after being disarmed and fed. Up
to the time of our departure, although nu-
merous spies had been captured, not a
single Filipino had been executed. Such
wrongs as were casually committed against
the natives, were likely TO be brought to
our attention, and in every case that We In
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Spain by strict press censorship. Alusion
is made to the powerful katipunan society,
patterned on the Masonic order, and mainly
made up Of Tagalos, as a powerful revo-
utionary force.
The Settlement.
The war begun in 1896 was terminated by
the treaty of Biac-Na-Bate. The Filipinos
were numerous. but possessed only about
500 small arms. The Spanish felt that 1t
would require 100, 600 men to capture their
stronghold, and concluded TO resort to the
use of money. Certain concessions were
also decided upon, including representation
OF the tlllpinos in the cortes, the deporta-
ton of the friars, which was the principal
question. the grant of the right of associa-
ton and Of free press. Governor General
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intellectual Capacity of the FfIiuinOs
''As to the general intellectual capacities
of the Filipinos, the commission is disposed
to rate them high. But. excepting in a lin
tied number of persons, those capacities
have not been developed by education or
experience. The masses of the people are
uneducated. That intelligent public onin-
ION on which popular government rests
does not exist in the Philippines And il
cannot exist until education has elevated
the masses, broadened their intellectual
horizon and disciplined their faculty of
judgment. And even then the power of
self-goVernment cannot be assumed with
out considerable previous training and ely
perience. under the guidance and tutelage
of an enlightened and liberal SOVEREIGN
power. For the bald fact is that the Fiji
pinos have never had any experience in
governing themselves
The report shows that this INABILITY for
government is due to the old Snaniah
regime. which gave the Filipinos little or
no part in governing themselves. After re-
viewing this Spanish system the commits
sion sums up on this point:
This is all the training in seIf-goverp
ment which the inhabitants of the Philin-
pine Islands have enjoyed. Their lack of
education and political experience cow
bined with their racial and linguistic III
Versltles, dlsqualify them in spite of their
mental gifts and domestic virtues. to mn
dertake the task of governing the archi-
pelago at the present time The moct tbat
can be expected of them is to co-0nerate
with the Americans in the administrator
of general affairs from Manila as a center
and to undertake subject to American con-
troll or guidance Gas may be found neces-
sary), the administration of provincial and
municipal affairs. Fortunately there are
educated Filipinos, though they do not con-
stitute large proportion of the entire pom
ulation, and their support and services will
be of incalculable value in inauprratinr
and maintaining the new government AS
education advances and experience ripens
the natives may be intrusted with larger
and more independent share of government
self-government the American ideal
being constantly kept in view as the goal
In this way American sovereignty over the
archipelago will prove great political boon
to the people.
Anarchy If Left to Themselves.
Should our power by any fatality be
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From the Philadelphia North American
MY wife has just completed handsome
piano cover" said Hickby. Does your
wife do any fancy work."
Does she do fancy work"r roared II.
Peck. You ought TO see her when I 90
home late from the lodge"
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From the PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
Those two dentists have had a contest
to see which one extracted the most teeth
IN n month"
'How d,d Il come out?"
oh, II was a draw"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-03-04
r1oIer Avenue.
RALF.

Mr.. James Duval and daughter,
and Mr.. Frank Hardy were seen on
the avenue Saturday.
Mr.. Ed. Mcdonald, OF Baltimore,
with his family, are guests OF the
family of Mr.. A. NJ. Sprinkle.
Mr.. J.. T. Hopper's sister, the wife
of an Episcopal minister, of New Jer-
sey, his brother and Mrs. Gaunter are
guests of MI. Hopper.
Warm days full of melting sunshine
is absorbing fast the few remain
ing traces OF our recent snow
blockade and all it's evil effects.
Washington must have suffered
from accounts more than most.cities-
but then it had enough. latent heat
reserved in the fiery bosom ofsIndi-
aua's representative, Henry Johnson
to thaw out a place frozen many de-
grees colder and to make it. red hot
with sulphurous fumes and liquid
bolts and flames of abuse and hatred.
We venture to assert it was melted
out sooner than all the rest, because
with a Cato's eloquence,i a Nero's
cruelty, and a Guiteau's assurance
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Sunday School Lesson for r1arch S

Subject-Jesus Freeing From Sin
John 8: IL, 1896 Read the whole
chapter.
Golden Text-"If the Son therefore
shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed" John 8: SO.
What if our Nation had been con
quered in the late war, and every one
of us had become slaves of our enc
mics! What on abject condition of a
people Boosting of freedom and glory
ing in the right! But many of us
are today the slaves of a greater ty-
rant than any nation, in bondage to
an oppressor who is a liar and a Ia
derer; for they are the slaves OF sin,
the captured menials of that old SER
pent. the devil.
A fallen woman taken in the act OF
sin had been brought to Jesus by the
scribes and pharisees for His condem-
nation. There stands the trembling,
guilty creature, her world ended,
nothing but w~retchedness and shame
left her. There stands her proud ac-
cusers; nan who should have been her
defender, is her tormentor; he who
caused her to sin her; who
should have cham pioned her honor,
betrays her.
BY the law she must be stoned to
death, and they appeal to Jesus to
condemn her. But Jesus stopped
down, and with His finger wrote
on the ground, as though He heard
them not. So when they continued
asking Him, He said, HE that is
without sin among you, let him first
cast a stone at her. And again He
stoore ed down and wrote on the ground.
And they, being convinced by their
own conscience, went ont by one,
beginning at the eldest, even unto
the last. And Jesus said to the won
an, "Hath nc man condemned thee?
She said, mo man, Lord Then
Jesus said, "Neither do l condemn
thee, go and sin no more"
Then he told tire people OF success,
or of freedom from sin. 81 am the
Light of the world; he that tolloweth
Me shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life" He
told them that all who are not chill
dren of God are trespassers, and have
no rights on the earth, for it belongs
to God; and He has given it to Hi:
children.
Jesus frees from sin, land the end /:
everlasting life. For the wages o
sin is death; but the gift OF God /:
eternal life through Jesus Christ ou'
Lord"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-03-04
After the drip-What?

You thought you had the best OF
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than when you retired. You are irri-
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triumph as he caressingly tucked the
dainty envelope deity into his breast
pocket, for inquiring eyes were eager
ly watching the advent of a scented
and beribboned valentine breathing
deathless love and vows Of eternal
fidelity; but those same eyes cast dis
appointed looks of bafled pleasure at
this sudden and unexpected turn at
fairs had taken, and a scowl went the
rounds when this tall, beardless youth
buttoned his overcoat up to his chin
and stalked out of the office. What did
that matter to him? There was rymth
Of movement and his heart beat a
happy tattoo as he pictured the gold
e .haired Marguerite, of Raleigh
street. bending her beauteous head
and moistening that very seal with
her ruby lips. lips he would have
given half his lease Of life to have
pressed SO closely. At length he
reached the seclusion of his w oor
and drew the missive from his pocket,
broke the seal and shades of hadesl
beheld a bunch of blonde whiskers,
tied with a crimson ribbon. and be
meath were these words: Here are
a few sprouts you can cultivate for
that beardless face. your valentine"
Then followed a scene even Herbst
couldn't paint, and then was heard a
chorus of laughter that is still ringing
through the pines, along the moudt
aims, and resembling back to the send
er, "Lovey" Burkhart.
Ar%
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this disappointed, self-conceited
guardian of our Republic has abused,
vilifed, stabbed, shot. burnt, hung
and auartered the Administration and
made it hot as in Congress.
And yet the Administration still
lives. The burden of the great ele-
plant is borne slowly along; the
weight of his immense feet makes the
earth tremble as he advances; the ex-
pansion of his heaving breast is still
heard: the blast from his mighty
trunk has blown the Oregon on to the
call of Yankee Dewey Dandy" and
heralded the news of the signing of
the treaty of peace. He has but to
drag his immense body across the
isthmus and the waters OF the Gulf
and Pacific will meet and the MIC
aragua Canal will be an assured reali-
ty with all its opposers.
Johnson had power to revile and no
one interposed. Repudiated by his
own state, he sought revenge and no.
toriety and gained both, unenvied,
unapplauded, except, perhaps, by
Aguinaldo, who no doubt will be
grateful when he hears of this cham
pion of his liberty-Johnson. He
will long to clasp this kindred spirit
to his own dynamic bosom.
1t makes me weep that a world of
water must always separate these
champions Of savage liberty, who
have more power and more freedom
now than they know how to use for
their own best interest, but who like
the self. deceived nearer home, with
more ambition than discretion, i'm
agine they are heaven-appointed re-
formers, and actually stand as stumb-
l~ing-blocks, or worse, act as traitors to
their own party. instead of aids.
Dead weight they remain to the pillow
OF progress, instead of applying mus
Gle and good will to help lift the bur-
den ard to advance. We should aid,
not retard, wen though the pillow
move in a circle as round as 1.-The
court. house ring"
Rememberth the very life of our planet
depends on ring motion. Just as
soon as u old world takes a notion
to fly off in a tangent, that moment
she will lose her balance and fall down
lower than the angels pitched satan.
The sensational account of one
named Won Rosen, reputed to be a
count, told in the Sunday New York
World, recalls the memory of the same
gentleman. He called here last
spring in company with Mr.. Jas.
Lloyd, secured an order to silverplate
a set OF table forks, which afterwards
we're brought back. The job was a
genuine success. hope the stranger
is as honest as his work is good, and
that he will prove his right to his
fortune and secure it, and further, l
hope F. Vernon Aler will be rewarded
as he deserves, since the full measur
of popularity and hard.earned praise
was not melted out as it should have
been to the talented author of the His
tory of Martinsburg and Berkeley
County. May he find it in legal lore
the boon he Graves and its Just emolu.
ments.
His handsome face wore a look of