The Irish standard., 1899-07-01

those churches, and gladly supported
those priests needed nor called for
the exercise OF our humanity" but
whilst the scoundrel that did call for,
and intrigue for it, is keeping sound
skin, and carefully hustiing ahead OF
him in his flights, his thousands OF i'm
prisoned friars and hostages, to make
another patriotic" haul of money by
their ransom, the poor people are left
to taste the full iruitage OF this alliance
between knaves and fools. eve are do
ing something that we would have
shrunk from not so very long ago."
says Gen. McRecve. Says James P.
Kelly, 23rd U. S. Infantry: "The in
surgent loss is estimated at about 5000;
they must have about 10000 wounded"
"lnthepath of the Washington regiment
and Battery D. OF the 9th Artillery there
were 1908 dead niggers, and great
many wounded We burned all their
houses. l don't know how many men,
women and children the Tennessee boys
did kill. One company was sent into
headquarters with 80 prisoners, and got
there with 100 chickens and no prison.
ers," says L. F. Williams, of Ozark, Mo.
Thus has the distinguished example set
by British Sirdar Kitchener been facili-
tating true progress, and we are not
whit behind the British themselves in
their battues of African or Australian
naked savages, and have come to enjoy,
and crave for the work! Writes A. A.
Barnes of Battery A., grid U. S. Artil-
lery: "Orders were received from Gen.
Wheaton to burn the town and kill every
native in sight About 1000 men,
women and children were killed. 1 am
probably growing hard-hearted for am
in my glory when can sight my gun
on some dark skin and pull the trigger"
1--WE bombardcd Malabon," says A. Mi
chea, grid Artillery, and then went in
and killed every native we met, men,
women and children" st was decided
to kill or drive into the lake every native
to be found in the half-moonshaped dis
trlct between the mouth of the Mateo
| River and the further end OF the lake,
distance OF II miles," says F. L. Poin-
dexter OF the end Oregon regiment.
"The 18th and Washingtons,' says an
other "were driving all before them, and
taking no prisoners. This is now our
rule" There" says Chas. Bremen OF
the Kansas regiment at Caloocan, ''oc-
CURED the hardest sight l ever saw
They had 4 prisoners and didn't know
what to do with them. They asked
Capt. Bishop, and he said, You know
the ORDERS and 4 natives dropped dead"
The N. Y. Sun correspondent wrote:
TO shoot a man at six-foot range with
Springfield rifle is hard thing to do,
but the orders were to let no insurgent
live, and off would so the whole side OF
his head
| But there were more than Mr. Barnes
who had come to enjoy the sport of
"potting nigecrs" A member Of the
23rd U. S. Infantry naively complained
how the regulars felt disappointed at not
having got chance for shot, and spe-
cial duty men have clamored to be re-
lieved so they might go and gun for in
surgents! A pretty upshot OF the clam
or of the Prince OF Peace's ministers
against bloody, brutal Spain!" Did
ever any Spaniard from Alva to Weyler
equal the brutalness of this editorial dis
course in the new American paper
Freedom" (Dec 1o): "Aguinaldo
should post himself on Yankee history.
On the first page he would find the story
OF the noble but unfortunate red man,
how he rebelled and how we took his
scalp, his pony, and his land. Then how
when we had punished him we sang the
doxology and sent missionaries to
| Christianize what remained of them.
Then when we landed on Plymouth
Rock we dropped on our knees, and
second we dropped on the Aborigines"
The earlier accounts are remarkably
corroborated by buger John Roberts Of
Company L., 18th Minnesota, who left
Manila May 18th and arrived in Min
neapolis June 18TH. He says: IF the
American people only knew the saught-
er going on among the natives we would
have war among ourselves to stop it.
They tell us of Spanish cruelty. We
have been vastly more cruel than the
Spanish. We have killed more natives