The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-20
FUNSI()N'S VIEW OF \.
A Talk With the Kansas General Con-
corning the Campaign in
the Philippines.
"PUSH," WHAT IS NEEDED
Sixty Thousand Men, the Kansan Says
Will End the lnSulrectiOn
in Six Months.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
San Francisco, Oct. H. General
Funston returns to The United States
only because his return was ordered.
He does not willingly leave the firing
line. II the government asks him to
remain In the service, he will remain
cheerfully, almost eagerly. He has
not asked TO be retained he will not,
but if he is given chance to continue
in active service he will accept 1t
heartily. He has no grievance, nor
dissatisfaction He believes in hold
ing the Philippines forever and Who'll
ly approves of the war. "With 80, 900
men, If they are pushed, the war will
be over in six months, but Of course
1t won't be ended that soon if the
troops are kept IN Manila" is the
way he puts it.
NOT CRITICIZING A SUPERIOR.
General Funston unhesitatngly
tells what he thinks on most propo-
sitlons that are put to him, but he Ia
not criticizing his superior officers.
A number of interviews have been
published with him wherein he is
represented as severely critical of
General Otis's merits. General Fun
ston has not done this, but it may be
said in passing that the concensus of
opinion among the mem bers of the
Kansas regiment is that Otis is in
competent, II nothing worse.
General Funston had just received
a congratulatory letter from Govern
or Roosevelt when he welcomed a
CORES pendent for the Star.
"Governor Roosevelt" he said
"evidently knew when we were GO
ing to land. He timed his letter to
catch me almost on the hour of my
coming huck "
dwell, general, Why DID you come
back ? II the regiment was mustered
out. why didn't you remain? All
sorts of stories have Leen current to
explain your coming. Some say that
you are disgruutled, others that you
are against expansion, and so it goes.
What's the truth about it?"
WANTED TO STAY THERE.
General Funston answered; II
came hack because | was ordered to-.
| would have stayed very gladly,
and wish that | were there now"
did you ask to stay?n
NO. he answered. II wouldn' t
do that. haven asked, nor will l.,
but If it Is thought that can be of
any service in the Philippines I'd go
back on very short notice. take it
that the terms of enlistment of the
state volunteers having expired the
aumber of volunteer general is being
reduced. There is Hale, for instance,
one of the most capable and courage
Gus men who ever forced fighting.
The return of such man as that is
susceptible of no other explanation. "
General Funston is not an expan-
sionist in the widest sense of the
word.
81 am not the kind of expansion
ist," he said, "that believes in swash-
buckling around in the affairs of
other nations and grabbing right and
left i'm mere sellishness and greed
but / am i'm favor of holding the
Philippines forever, not, mark you,
now or at any time in the future as
an integral part at the Union polit-
ically, They must always remain "a
colony.
STIFF. FIRM GOVERNMENT.
81 am convinced that the best way
to govern the islands is to give them
a firm, stiff-neGked colonial govern
ment, nodded on the same lines as
the government of the colonies Of
Great Britain. We won't be able to
divide the responsibility. The sug-
gestiOn that we educate them for the
responsibilities of self-government
nd then exercise merely pro-
tectorate, reserving harbor or so to
ourselves, that's q dream. 1t would
lead to nothing but confusion and
trouble IN practice They will never
be able to govern themselves. The
islands came to us under conditions
that were unavoidable aud perempt.
DRY, and now that we have them, we
must keep them and we will. Five
years hence people generally will be
INDUCING in m Id forms of ridicule at
those who now suggest abandoning
the group.
NOT A MA / TER OF MONEY.
"Of course Il liars and cents basis