The Redwood gazette., 1899-06-28

member Of our company was shot
through the heart at San Rafael, and
there is a new grave where lies
Lewis. another victim to Filipino
ingratitude. The longer the natives
drag this out the worse it is for
them, as the rainy season has com
menced, and it is harder on them
than it is on the Americans. The
natives are coming in every day,
though, and the reports are that
there are dissensions among the in
surgent leaders, who see that they
are fighting for lost cause and are
realizing the terrible mistake they
have made. Despite our dislike to
the insurgents, yet l have never
seen a hungry woman or child
turned away from our camp and it's
not an uncommon sight to see two
or three women and children MUNICH
ing hard tack or bread, with rice
and coffee, waiting for the train to
take them in. We know that those
same people would boio us if they
had us alone, or could sneak up on
us, but when we see them
hungry it is not in an American
soldies to leave them so, and it is a
great surprise to the natives them
selves to be fed.
s'In this hospital there are num-
Der of insurgents that are receiving
the same treatment as the Ameri-
cans We may talk about what we
will do to them, and on the front we
try to make them good (?) insur-
gents, but when they are wounded
and in pain our sympathy is aroused
and for the time being they are suf-
fering humanity in need OF the help
ing hand.
1.-THE insurgent generals came in
town week ago in regard to an
armistice, and while here visited
the wounded insurgents. They
were greatly surprised, as they had
never expected to see them alive,
but when they saw the natives re-
ceiving better treatment from the
Americans than thev would have
received in their own hospitals they
did not know what to think, and it
is something they cannot under
stand. | believe it has made them
doubt some of Agulnaldo's state
ments about the ood-thirsty
Americans, and they are coming to
the conclusion that an American
government would be preferable to
an Aguinaldo despotism, The
natives are disheartened, but are
afraid to leave the army. although |
am satisfied that at least 2OO0 have
deserted Aguinaldo during the last
week. l sincerely hope that Aguin
aldo will depart this life by the
Krag orgensen Springfield rapid
transit route before this trouble is
over and that this patriot who has
followed (D iii the lines of Washing
ton and Lincoln Git is a shame to
class such man with our states
men) will have chance to- tell his
troubles to policeman in warmer
place than Manila. There will al
ways be trouble here while he and
men of his ilk are ON these islands.
''The natives are bright in
mechanical lines and fancy carving
are musicallv inclined, etc, but in
tellectually childish, very conceited,
and have great ideas of their mill
tary abilities. Before the trouble
we had to listen to their insulted
cry, Filipino igual Cinco Amer1-
canos "a Filipino is equal to five
Americans.) This is an instance of
their vanity. They know better
now and have learned that in scrap
an American is equal to fifty Fill
pinos. They probably would be
surprised if they knew that in cur
opinion all the natives on these
islands would not compensate US
for the loss of one American soldier,
and as far as l am concerned they
could take these islands and blow
them to pieces, provided that the
white people were off,. l suppose
the people at home think we are
blood-thirsty and bitter, but if they
had seen their friends and com
rades brought in with fourteen cuts
around the throat and head and
Io4boru,;co bor,; h1x, r,,,1filo4od T ho-