New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-11-01

peace. This entire trade with the Phil
lippines will never amount to one-tenth.
that sum annually. Is this enormous
Expenditure to be saddled upon Ameri-
can tax payers2 If so, the game is not
worth the candle. Is it to be burdened
upon the Filipinos? Then the burden
| will be three times that which Spain ex
acted and against which the Fillpinos re-
volted. Verify the Mckinley type of
"freedom'' and s.benevolent assimilation"
comes high: n
Just as President Schurman had Sc.
cured a proper audience for his parro
cry that, "Only the Tagalogs were only
in revolt and they formed but small
percentage Of the people of the islands"
comes the unpleasant news that the vi
sayans, the second largest tribe in the is
lands have reyolted on Panay and reg
lment has been sent down to guard Iloilo.
It should he said, however, that the Sui
tan is keeping up his end of the treaty
and sends receipt for his salary every
month. E@
The Philippine Peace Commission is
now in session in Washington and with
McKinley's aid, will enueavor to find
out what they think they think. The
Commission is going to have trouble
with itself from the beginning. President
Shurman believes one set of things, Prof.
Worcester has some views of his own,
Admiral Dewey is getting contemptuous,
and Gel. DENLY, alone takes suggestions
from the White House with eagerness.
Mckinley is somewhat anxious for fear
the Commission will be against him. He
wants to "Ohioize" the officers in the
Philippines, while the Commission has
some obscure and hazy idea of aping the
English Colonial system of administra-
ton, which calls for an extremely expen-
sive but extremely rigid Civil Service
system, with competitive entrance.
In THE TRANsvAAL.
The predictions in regard to the sue
cess of the Beers, made almost alone in
these letters, is being borne out in re-
markabie fashion. In the West, Mafe-
king and Kimberly are invested and by
the time this letter is read, may have
fallen. Their condition is hopeless. The
Beers hold possession of every point as
far South as the Orange river. In Ma
tai, the British occupied line sixty
miles IN length along the railroad, from
Ladysmith to Glenco. The latter place
was held to protect Dundee, where the
mines are, which supply nearly all South
Africa, and on which the British fleet was
to depend. The finest regiments in the
British army held the line. Up to Oct.
81 there had been four battles. In the
first at Glencoe, $500 British attack an
advance guard of 1900 Beers, occupying
a strong position. The British had the
advantage in artillery fire, but the terri
ble rifle practice OF the Boels resulted 1n
the loss of death and wounds of 80 per
cent Of the British Officers, including
their commanding general and three col
onels. It was an African Bunker Hill.
in which the British gained possession of
the heights, the Beers retired in good or
DER The next day, 1900 British attacked
1900 Beers at Glands Laagte, some TWEEN.
| ty miles south of Glencoe, where they
had cut the railroad, with similar re-
suit. Twenty seven per cent of tile Brit
ish officers were killed and wounded.
The Beers retired in good order, saving
their artillery and capturing a squadron
of British Hussars with their officers,
who were unwise enough to attem.t to
follow them up. r.
The following day the Beers appeared
in such numbers to the North and West
of Dundee and Glencoe that the British
General Yule fled precipitately ,abandon-
ing not only his military supplies and
artillery, but also the hundreds of wound
ed British soldiers in his hospitals. Fa-
vored by dense fog and the ensuing
night, he succeeded by circuitos march
in joining the main body of the British
troops at Ladysmith. Gen. White in
command at Lady Smith had, in the
meanwhile, succeeded in holding off an
other Boer attack in fight quite as dis
astrous to his officers as the previous en-
gagements.
Two more battles like these will leave
the British army in Natal without Off
GERS enough to take it into action In-
stead of the $4,000 troops which the