The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-12
'TnE EPHILIPPINES PUZZLE
Aguinaldo's Berlin Representative
on the Controversy.
CoULDKBEP UP GUERRILLA WAR.

Meantime the London Newspapers
Continue to give Advice as to the
Duty of Our Government I'm Dealing
with the FiIiplnos.
London, Jan. 12.-The Berlin corre-
spondent of The Standard says that
Professional Blumentritt, Aguinaldo's
representative there. writes to The
Tageblatt as follows.
THE Americans, being addicted tc
drink, are less able to fight in the
tropics than the sober Spaniards. A
guerrilla war could be kept up for six
or eight years. during which the in
evitable conflict between the powers
in eastern Asia would afford the Fill
pinos a chance.
"All the Jesuits and Benedictines are
at liberty; only the other orders have
been kept prisoners. The former are
now pro-American, because American
rule offers the only hope of retrieving
their fortunes. Ill treatment of pris-
oners is severely punished, while nuns
are not mOlested, most of them being
can buy the insurgent army for S3,-
100000, but the Filipinos anticipate
that an American party inspired by
Washington's spirit will yet come into
power and grant them independence D.
The Madrid correspondent of The
Times says: 1T is not to the advan-
tage of Spain that a settlement in the
g.. AL, ri l.
fully realized that Spanish shipping is
suffering from the uncertainty, as well
as the interests of the religious orders,
whose prosperity is at stake, and many
of whose members are prisoners. II
is not true that the Spanish command
ers have been ordered to give the
Americans trouble. Spain desires to
bury the hatchet. A scheme is being
seriously discussed for the government
of the Philippines by an international
company, or three companies, like the
British South Africa company, which
would be more acceptable to the ma
tives than the rule of the United States
and would enable Spanish investments
without loss of markets in the archi-
pelago."
The Daily Mail publishes the follow
ing dispatch from Hong Kong: "The
Americans who are arriving here from
Manila complain bitterly of the mac
tion of Major General Otis, particular
ly in leaving the Manila water supply
at the mercy of the rebels. They say
a collision between the Americans and
the insurgents is inevitable. Aguin-
aldo's dispatches to the Filipino junta
here have been stopped"
Most of the morning papers comment
today upon the situation in the Phil
ippines, drawing theinference that Sen
ator Foraker's remarks in the senate
chamber yesterday were made by him
as the spokesman of the president and
expressing disappointment and theii
disapproval of a possible relfnquish-
ment of the Philippines by the United
States.
The Times says: Senator Foraker
appears to leave the subject in an un-
pleasantly ambiguous state. 1t is in
the Philippines that the new system OF
government will be brought to a test
and no resolutions passed in the senate
can solve the problem. The claims OF
the insurgents to national recognition
can hardly hold water, but there is nc
power in the world that would be SO
much embarrassed by the raising of a
question of this sort as the United
States. To announce that the occupa,
tion of the Philippines is only temper.
airy would be scarcely prudent"
The Standard says: 1T is a little
startling to find the liberators of Cuba
engaged in suppressing a youthful re-
public which claims the sacred right OF
self government Yet to withdraw
would create another Cuba off the coast
of Asia for which naval nations would
scramble"
The Daily Chronicle says: 1--WE be.
lieve that, so soon as it can safely be
done, the United States will give the
Filipinos virtual home rule under re.
sponsible government"