Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-30

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Ian. ana their u Stenents now giye The
lie direct to the estimate Of Aguina1do
and his people which administration
organs are doing their best to spread
broadcast. II the statements publish
ed by the Register are not true, or are
evidence of "disloyalty," our neighbor
should blame not the Register, but
Dewey and the other officers respons-
IDLE for them, who will probably be
| able to hold their commissions, how
ever, in the face of our neighbor's as
saults on their patriotism.
Said statements are nothing new, by
the way. but have been published
broadcast over the land in the press,
even though our neighbours exclusive
readers-poor benighted souls-have
never seen them.
Even so good and faithful an admin
istration paper as the New York Tri-
bune, Peace Commissioner Whitelaw
Reds paper, does not attempt to blind
it's readers to the truth, as our Four
teenth contemporary vainly does. The
Tribune has sense enough to know it
would be useless. 1t publishes letters,
which are vouched for by it as coming
from a naval officer in Dewey's COM
mand to a friend in New York. This
officer fully corroborates the views and
statements of the Register and the in
dependent press in general on this sub
ject He shows that the statements re-
garding the natives and their govern
ment on. which the administration and
it's organs have been trying to feed the
people are simply deliberate false
hoods.
This member of Dewey's feet writes
as late as December that the entire
population of Luzon, with the excep-
l'tion of some savage mountain tribes,
acknowledged the authority of Aguin-
ado" that they were not wild and
naked savages, but men who wore the
garb of civilization, who own and
work farms and who worship God, the
ather, and Jesus Christ" Also, that
they have government "far reaching
in it's powers, and really satisfactory
and successful in its workings and "a
Congress with regularly elected repre-
sentatives, which at present controls
Luzon outside of Manila and Cavite."
This testimony, from an officer who
states he, himself, was formerly in ia
vor of annexation, but has changed his
views after study of the subject on the
ground, is, as the Pittsburg Dispatch,
another good but independent Repub-
lican paper, puts it, "a thorough refu-
tation of the persistent misrepresenta-
ton that there was no government in
the island Of LuZon when we began the
conquest" 1t is evidence that the
Philippine policy of the administration
backed by the greedy imperialists of
Wall street, is not founded on either
honesty or justice to the American
people or tie Philippine natives. 1t is
evidence, further, that the suffering
and losses of our brave soldiers, whose
greatest trials will begin with the
deadly rainy season now about due,
and the sorrows and anxiety of the
thousands of loved ones at home all
might have been averted and peace
been maintained had the administra-
ton in dealing with this matter man
fully freed itself from Wall street in
f1uences and pursued safe, wise, hon
est and patriotic policy and given the
Philippine leaders official assurance
that conquest was not our object
which assurance is all that the Fill
pinos have ever asked of our govern
| ment.
Major John D. Black testified before
the Court of Inquiry yesterday that
when Eagan was told that the troops
wouldn't eat his "embalmed beef" he
flew into rage and said: cd DIN
them, would have made them eat it,"
This is evidence of the tender regard
and solicitude for the troops that pre-
walls in the War Department.