Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-12
WILL FINISH WAR;
General Funston Says In a
Short Time.
THE ADDITIONAL MEN
Will Give Otis a Chance to Sweep the
the IslandS-NativeS Are Not Cap
able of Self GOvernment--Junta
Keeps Trouble Going.

AHicdSo, Cct. Ia SpecEti 10 lHe
Times Herald from San Francisco SAYS:
II see no reason why the Americans
should not be sole masters of the Phil
ippines by March of next year" This
is the opinion of Brigadier General Fun
ston, who arrived at the home of his wife
in East Oakland last night.
THE situation in the islands has
cope with it. There must be no tenn
porizing, no wasted sympathies no fool
!! ish sentiment 1t must be case of fight.
| The Filipinos are now in such a frame of
mind that they will not yield until they
are thoroughly thrashed and convinced
that it is useless 20 oppose America
do not say this unadvisedly. ! have given
| the matter many months of deep study
and my knowledge of Spanish enabled
me to converse freely with officers and
+; prisoners on the rebel side.
I'VE arrived at Manila last December,
| which was two months before hostilities
began. During these two months the
officers of the Filipinos frequently came
within our lines and ] discussed with
them every phase of the situation. They
We're very high minded and gave me the
| opinion that they were well able to look
after themselves and that it was very
we'll for the Americans to deliver them
from the prosecutions of Spain. but that
having performed that service, we should
be satisfied and let them alone.
'"rhe best among them are ignorant.
Occa sionally l found a smattering OF
education. But they are absolutely an
i,,,y hi r,f
government / am convinced that the
| best way to govern the islands is To give
| them a firm, stiff f-necked colonial govern
ment, much on the same lines as the
government of colonies of Great Britain.
There should be a governor general who
j should have absolute power over tn" local
government and also the command of the
United States troops and any native
, troops that it may be considered judicious
to organize. This may seem strange, but
am convinced that as soon as the re-
bellian is crushed there will be an entire
change of heart among a large percent
age of natives and they will he quite
willing to carry arms under American
officers
with the $4,000 men now there and
the additional $4,000 that will be on ti1e
ground when the November campaign
opens there will be ample soldiers to
walk through the islands. Sixty thou
sand troops will teach the Filpinos the
lesson they deserve. But it must not be
a campaign of temporizing. X must be
aggressive and persistent from the start.
There must be no let up and no opnor-
tunity must be given the rebels once
routed to recover. The Filipnos are no
match for Americans on the battlefield.
In one instance, at caloocan, whore the
Kansas troops were engaged, we lost two
men while personally counted 1l2 dead
Filipinos. This is. of course, not fair
comparison, but the Americans are GER
tainly as much superior under arms than
FilipinOs as six to one.
1.-The seat of all the trouble at this
time is the Filipino junta at Hong Kong.
This perncious little body is keeping the
war alive. 1t is in communication with
insurgents and supplies Aguinaldo's
army with the hopes from which il lives.
1t sends out reports of fearful disaster
to our troops that never occur 1t imag-
ines all manner of friendly feeling, the
world over toward the Filipinos. I, as
sures them of all kinds of outside sup
port without foundation and in this
manner keeps their spirits alive. The
Fiipinos are busiest just now circulating
reports that the trend of public opinion in
this country is against the American
procedure in the islands. They are in
formed by this junta that majority of
the states have voted against the policy
of the administration and that they only
have to wait until the next general cleo
ton, when the United States will grant
them their independence
"Aguinaldo himself is shreWd but not
clever He circulates and corr"borates
all the junta sends out. If his people
could be induced to accept the situa ton
they would desert him tomorrow. So
long as those fellows think they have
ghost of a show of holding up their end
they will maintain the rebellion and If
the American army fights them at every
hand l believe they will turn as whole
and come focking into our camp and will
have no further use for that prince Of