The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-22
Responsibility for the Bloodshed in the
Philippines.

The testimony Of the Hon. JOHN BARRETT
of Oregon before the Boston Chamber OF
Commerce, on Tuesday, that the incte-
ment of the Filipinos under AGUINALDo to
insurrection against our authority was fur
nished by the treachory Of our "anti-im-
perialist" plotters, merely confirmed facts
already we'll established by evidence.
The attempt to hold up the Peace Treaty
in the Senate was supplemented by an i'm
mediate uprising OF the Aguinaldo band.
Effect followed cause logically and swiftly.
Then came the efforts Of the Boston "Anti-
Imperialist League" to stir up mutiny
among our soldiers In the Philippines,
and they served a like reasonable
purpose. "Ths injury" as Mr.. BAR
RETr testified, from personal expert
ence in the islands, Twas not done in
hinderng our men in their efforts on the
field Of battle, but in squirting on and CIV
ing new life to their enemies" ION the
battlefield, along the firing line, and in
the camps and hospitals, he said II heard
the rank and file Of our brave soldiers
inveigh against the effect OF this agita-
tion on the enemy" 1t aroused only in
dignation among our troops, but it was
"the most encouraging influence for the
Filipnos in fighting u.s." and this Mr.
BARRETT heard from Admiral DEWEY
from all our general officers and from
"scores Of other officers" The treacherous
malevolence OF the ANTI Imperialsts I"
was responsible for 1.-THE spreading Of the
sentiment and notion through the ranks Of
the Filipino army and among the masses
OF the natives that our occupation OF the
islands was unwarranted, the war unpro-
voked, our army and navy unsupported by
our people, and our country about to de-
mand the withdrawal OF our forces from
the islands, the hauling down OF the flag
and our complete and ignominious with
drawal from our responsibilities"
That Is. the blood OF our soldiers killed in
the Philippines is on the heads of the senti-
mental miscreants who banded themselves
together at Boston for the purpose Of in
stigating the Filipinos to desperate resist
ance against the national authority which
our troops were sent to sustain. Few
as these REASONABLE Americans are they
made 30 much noise and their malevo-
lent activity. supplemented by that OF
deluded feminine allies, was 30 ceaseess
that AGUINALDo and his agents in Europe
received and industriously spread abroad
the impression that they are many and
| powerful, and that with their alliance the
Filipino insurgent has only to persist in
his bloody war to compel us to surren-
der. 1t was fire on our troops from
the rear, an assault from their own country
men, OF which there are few more infamous
examples in history A paltry company of
| sleek. well-fed prigs Of Boston pretended
| to represent the sentiment OF the American
people, and petty crew as they we're they
| succeeded in stirring AGUNALDo to hope
| less resistance. Timid souls themselves,
| they melted Drawer men to bloody war and
| the responsibility for the consequences
rests on them. They are chargeable with
| the loss Of hundreds OF lives In the Philip
pines. II they were not so utterly worth.
less for any manly service they ought all to
be packed off to the Philippines forthwith
and put to use in the fighting they pro-
voked by their reasonable conspiracy.
Yet there are politicians who imagine
that the American people can be stirred up
by an Anti-Imperialist" campaign next
year to initiate the treachery to their
country of this Boston gang!