The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

QtiS has tSef SSt@~A
If tbis precious campaign, and as an IN
itial step he has been induced to put hfs
name 10 this extraordinary cablegram.
which. it is alleged, was received N
washington a couple of days ago.
Ns.t;,,es so,,fheast Luzon combining to
drive out Insurgents: only hope insurgelit
leaders Is United States aid Iney pre-
c1a;u, near overthrow present AQlnlliis-
~tration. to be followed by rne,r h fFn3fea
states. This is the influence when en-
shles them to hold out; much contention
prevails among them and no civil gov
eminent remains.
The utter absurdity of this statement
il made apparent daily by General Otis
own dispatches. in which he shows the
remarkable elasticity of the Philippine
arebeas'' and the practical absence Of
any Impression made upon them by the
defeats which our troops daily infiict. So
far from appearing to be demoralized'
the ..rebels, appear to have done their
best fighting In the later battles, and now
that the wet season has set in, they have
a long time In which to organize and en-
trench themselves. while the deadly eli
mate plays far more havoc with our sol
diers than ever the Mauser bullets did.
General OTIS despatch, plainly inspired
from washington, as IT is. may be regard
ed as the transparent effort of a disered-
tied administration to keep itself in pow
er BY misleading the people. It is no more
immoral, and no more effective than the
various statements made to the public py
various Cabinet officers IN recent
speeches. It has Only one popularity, the
one which is intended to give 1t force, the
one which transfers it from the heading
Of imbeciiity TO that of atrocity. This is
the fact that a Major General of the
Army, commanding troops in the field, Is
degraded to the level Of a political spec
ial pleader, and made give the protection
Of his uniform to a grotesque and wicked
exhibition of humbug.
It is pleasing to see that the effort 70
impose on the people is a total failure
Even Republican papers refuse to pe
duped by it, and we find some OF the
leading ones treating not only the all
eyed dispatches but General Otis himself
with contempt and derision. Here is an
extract from the Boston Advertiser
for instance, which is valuable as a
straw
Canno something be done to stop this
vicious and bitter authorizing of treason
in the columns of the imperiallstic press
What is this country to 40 II Agulha,mo
perialists who are criticising the. Presi-
dent and the administration with sucis
eease1ess bowls of derision AND.
For example. although the imperialist
papers have admitted for the last three
months that 1t was not the intention q
the President nor his desire 70 increase
the army very largely, yet THESE SANE
papers are constantly calling for more
troops. and are intimating that General
Otis does not know his business. 9ne pd-
per even gge that President Mck1n-
the Philippines. Another impersallst pa.
her of this section declares that ienera
Alger ought to resign at once, ana ms
resignation ought TO be promptly &C
How it must encourage Aguinaldo to
find that even the imperialist papers are
Jumping on the administration SO
heavily ard 50 savagely!
And. again. we find this in the Phila-
delphia NORTH Americana:
Otis feels entirely competent to over
come Filipinos who are armed with
Mauser rifles merely. but Filipines VINO
.o~ s,~@, 1ofso,, NTH rnnipc nf Senator
Hoar's antf-expansion ~speerhes IN their
hip-pockets present an inyinetble 'front.';
Evidently new and severer measures viii
have to be adopted in the Philippines.
Since the natives are too much for Gen.
Otis while anti-expansion literature IS
allowed to be published in the United
States, and as respect for the consllueloa
forbids interference with the right OF
American citizens to think and say what
they please about expansion, the first new
and severe measure should be the SUP
planting Of Gen. Otis by a who
il equal to the enterprise Of overcoming
Filipinos who carry both Mausers =
back numbers of the "Congresslonal
Record"
It is true that our people are daily
becoming more and more tired of this
war. They are Disguised witt it as a
moral proposition. They feel the stigma
Of first buying a people like sheep and
then slaughtering them into submission.
But this is not all. They are also dis
gusted with the war on material grounds
They paid Spain $50. 900. 900 for the privilege
of carrying 1t on. 1t has cost to date
ss5, 900. 900, and the expense Of it is rolling
up at he rate of s2sO, 600 a day or about
So, 10000 a week. For this we are getting
no return in glory or cash. We are not
increasing our greatness as a power, for
we could build two battleships each week
and keep them in commission besides for
what we are d~issipating in a process Of
killing off our citizens and disgusting
them for a generation with the pursuit of
arms.
Surely. not in the blacklist days Of
despotism has any nation paid SO dear a
price as this to feed the vanity and lust
of power OF a selfish and narrow in
diyidual and his personal clique.