The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-25

Freedom, paper published at
Manila, is about as close in touch with
the war situation and understands the
feelings of the soldiers as near as any
body. The paper circulates exclusively
among the soldiers and the opinions it
expresses on war matters are gathered
from close contact with the soldiers.
A recent editorial in Freedom is so
particularly applicable to conditions
among some people and some news
papers that we are constrained to pub
lish it:
"Our country is face to face with a
double ioe. The insurgent Tagalogs
in the Philippines, who are not danger
Gus, but rather annoying to a peace
loing people, and the ''aunties" at
home, who under the guise of patriot
ism, often the trump cards of scoun-
drels, seek to dim the brightness of
Old Glory in the eyes of the world and
cast reflections upon the sincerity of
the United States administration.
We say the insurgents are not dan
gerous and in themselves this is true.
Take away the pernicious influence of
the traitors OF our own country and
this insurrection would last no longer
than SNOW ball in hades.
There is not one among the leaders
of the Filipinos but that can see the
utter folly and imbecility of their
whipping the United States, and the
only reason on earth for their holding
on as long as they have, is their fool
ish belief in the power of the few score
traitorOus and ranting "aunties.'
'T6aV knew tbpy wara oop,nlat ta11 "
whipped week after the outbreak but
they also knew they could prolong hos
tilities for weeks and months. owing
to the peculiar condition for their
country and the long time they had to
get ready in, and they very foolishly
hoped that in the meantime the
''aunties'' would come into power in
the states and would recall Dewey and
Otis, make apologies to Aguinaldo.
and reimburse his government for the
trouble and ammunition expended in
killing American soldiers.
This insane hope, fed and kept alive
by few score traitors Of the Atkinson
Laughlin type at home, has kept the
fires of the insurrection burning and
has been the direct cause of all the
bloodshed on either side.
The enemy on this side of the pond
SOuIu DS IulShly SlIeuCeu were III IOu
for the one over yonder. OF course he
will be silenced anyhow, even if it be
not until there are less than a bakers
dozen of the insurgents left. for our ma
tlon, as contemporary says, is not a
nation of cutters.
1t has placed its shoulder to the
wheel and there will be no resting, no
stopping and looking back, until the
goal is reached. The most the enemy
in America can do is to influence the
enemy here to hold out in the face of
reason, until they have killed few
hundred of our men. and they them
selves are SO nearly all killed off and
broken up as to delay their national
independence several hundred years.
Every day hostilities are polonged
makes a Filipino nation more utterly
an impossibility: every drop of Ameri-
can blood shed in this warfare makes
the American claim to the Philippines
more absolutely incontestible.
The Filipino's worst foe is also Am
erica's enemy, but the native does not
realize this or he would throw down
his arms and become a peaceful citizen.
In his ignorance he has taken the
rawlings of the ''auntiesi as the voice
of the United States people, when as "a
matter of fact, the opinions of the for
mer amount to absolutely nothing
when weighed with those of the great
majority of Americans who love the
flag and who will not be satisfied with
anything short of unconditional sur
render.'