The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-24
THE continuance of the Philippine

war IS greatly TO be regretted, as
many valuable lives have already
been sacrificed and many others
will doubtless be sacrificed before
the strife can be terminated. 1t is
unfortunate that the Filipinos have
been misled by Aguinaldo, as his
purpose is to become Dictator and
establish a monarchy, while the
purposeof our government has been
to benefit the people and establish
q stable government that will in
sure peace and prosperity. 1t Will
not do to withdraw our army and
leave the civilized residents to the
mercy Of the bandits who compose
the Philippine army. Such an act
would call for the condemnation OF
the whole civilized world. Our
government assumed the protection
Of the foreign residents and there
is no honorable way to escape from
that duty. The rebellion must be
conquered by force Of arms and if
$1,000 men are inadequate for the
task, double or treble the number
should be employed. The great
mistake of the Government has been
the use of too small force to ac-
complish the end aimed at. There
should have been men enough en-
ployed to have garrisoned every
post that was captured, so that the
place once taken should have been
held secure against all assaults.
If this course had been pursued,
the war would have been over by
this time, as the rebels would have
seen the folly Of continuing the
strife. With an in adequate number
of men in the field, they are led to
believe that they will eventually be
victorious and hence the war is pro-
longed. The Government must
change its tactics. the war must be
pushed with greater vigor or the
administration will be assailed in
the rear by enemies as vindictlve
as the Filipinos and the result may
be an inglorious ending.
FEBRUARY 18th of this year, was
bitterly cold day and eight pris-
oners were whipped. and stood in
the pillory that day at New Castle.
A well known newspaper man spoke
to the Judges of the court and the
Deputy Attorney General about hav-
ing the sentences of the court post
poned and they willingly gave their
consent, but when the Attorney
General called up the head warden
of the Jail, he was told that the
men were then and had been twenty
minutes in the stocks and the only
resource was to let the punishment
60 on. AS predicted by the news
paper man, the subject has been
referred to on more than one occa-
sion since, and it was for this pur-
pose, the day being bitter cold
one, that clemency was asked until
a warmer day, so as to keep unjust
criticism from Delaware's whipping
post and pillory. This mode of
Furnishing prisoners who break the
laws Of the State, needs no defense
from us. The post and lash espec-
tally are both good things for Della
ware. which is midway between
two large and populous states.
7 THE Southern planters say they
cannot raise cotton and make it pay
at the ruling price now being paid
for it in the market. James Barrett
of Georgia, large cotton raiser,
said the agriculturalcondition are
worse in the South to. day than they
have ever been in the history o
the country. The cotton interes'
was especially depressed, prices
last year amounting to little more
than cents pound. Atthis price
a grower could not save himself il
he paid wages amounting to more
than SO a month. Planters gener
ally pay about 50 month wages
and at such rates they could no
prevent loss if they received les
than 6 cents a pound. Yesterday
cotton sold for 500 and predictions
are being made that It will 80 20 t
80 points lower before it strikes rocl
bottom prices.