New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-09-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| "AoAlH>Nl lOi> AS lEN.
| WASHINGTON, D. G.
| Gen. Bates has returned from the Sulu
Islands, where he jud1ciously distributed
$4,000 Mexican dollars and concluded
a s'treaty" with McKinley's 'great and
good friend" the Sultan of Jolo. Were
not Gen. Bates the direct representative
in this case of Mckinley, who seems to
have temporarily shelved his Peace
Commissioner, the American public
might believe that an abject surrender
of everything of importance had been
made to this half savage slave holding
head hunting, plygamous potentate. In
exchange for the small privilege hosting
the American flag, it is conceded that
the Sultan shall receive the tribute
which Spain have their paw increased,
| that such cheerful domestic institutions
as slavery, including the capture of ad-
ditional slaves, shall not be disturbed
and that the holy sacraments of poly
gamy shall not be interfered with. In
addition the Sultan is to be allowed to
govern the entire archipelago without
any interference or assistance from the
Americans. Gen. Bates, being soldier,
may be pardoned for thus overlooking
the interests of horde of hungry Re-
publican Office seekers; but really the
situation justifes his action.
| The Moros had just as soon fight as
eat. The Spaniards never conquered
them, although they lost thousands o.
troops in the attempt and a campaign
against them would be as fruitful in re-
suits as an onslught on nest of hor
nets.
! Now while Mckinley Republican.
will have no difficulty in explaining
why, the rest of the United States will
. be puzzled to discover how 1t is that tht
Sulu savages, hardly emerged from :
condition of piracy, are to be regarded
as quite capable of managing their owl
affairs, while the Filipinos, who for 20(
years have had schools and colleges
among whom illiteracy is far lower thai
among the negro voters of the South
are to be considered incapable of settinl
up 8. government. The fact is, as ha
been said repeatedly in these letters
Aguinaldo's insurgents are conductin,
l an orderly peaceable governmen
throughout the island of Luznn save il
the small area, less than one-twentiet
of the whole island, occupied by tn
lAmerican forces in the immediate vi
cinity of Manila. '~.~"
! Had even a reasonable approach t
the So. me policy of conciliation, which
Inow found useful with the Sultan Q
Jolo. been applied to Aguinaldo, tn
!. Philippine difficulty would never hav
: begun. ...:- ~
6 BENEFICENT SLAVERY.
Il Belefcent slaverypipes Peace Com
missioner Schurman on his return frou
the Philippines, relative to that peculia
institution in the Sulu islands. He ha
the nerve to claim that it Is diferen
from the plain, ordinary chattel SLAYER
which brought on the Civil War. II
chortles cheerfully that the Sulu slave
, are tc| be permitted to buy their ow
!, freedom if they want to. Why distur
: such p convenient system2 It is lik
the complacent argument of arrcgan
wealth "that every American farmer an
workman can become millionaire
This remarkable statement Of Pres
dent Schuman's has opened the eyes {
many people to the meaning of Imperia
ism. # slavery is :. 5enefcent'' in th