Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-24
WHERE CHARACTER IS REVEALED.

There may be a few honest, fair-mlnd-
ed men Who are not pleased with the ad-
ministration's policy of taking the Fill
pinos under it's care and control. Those
good people should carefully read the
DISPATCHES from Manila which are re-
ccived every day. They can learn the
character of the people with whom this
has to deal by noting how
they are conducting their plan of COM
paign; how they attempted to burn the
principal city in the islands, and rem
dering hundreds of their own people
homeless, houseless and in a suffering
condition. And then their guerrilla mode
of warfare seems treacherous and cow
ardly. although all things in love and war
friends picked off by Filipino sharp
shooters, hidden in n~ear-lying jungles,
may revise their opinion about every
thing being fair in war.
Nothing is more certain than that the
character of men is best revealed in &C
ton. The Filipinos are in action and
they are exhibiting fresh traits of char
acter every day. They have already
shown enough to enable one to pretty
well understand the Filipino disposition.
The first exhibit, and not the least in
structive, was the attempt to "drive out
the Americans' before reinforcements
arrived. That indicated VINES of
Judgment. A child might strike an adult,
exnecting to drive him away. If he were
endowed with reason he would Know how
futile was his demonstration of anger.
The Filipinos learned something in a
very few days, but not enough to teach
them wisdom, for they often monkeyed
with the buzz-saw since. That shows
they are poor pupils. They are not prop
erlv grounded in the lessons of life.
Then came the trial with the talismanic
that these waters, worn upon their
breasts, would divert the enemy's bullets
and they could do them no harm. Thous-
ands Of dead Filipinos and more thous-
ands WOUNDED Filipinos knocked that de-
ception out of sight. They went back on
the mysterious wafer, but they didn't
go back on A~guinaldo; but, like the YER
liable children they are, they remained
with their leader. The fall of lloilo did
not phase their faith in their ultimate
success. They still took stock in Aguin-
aldo, who had given them abundant
nroof that he is a falsifier, a vain up
start and an incapable leader. But ms
dunes showed the measure of their in
canacitv TO take care of themselves by
irving to burn down Manila two or three
nights ago. They are at the present
time engaged in "whipping the Ameri'
cans, by killing or %wounding one occa'
~sionally who ~imprudently exposes him
self to their. sharpshooters.
In these acts the Filipinos have ex'
hibited their total unfitness to AXE carr
of themselves, much less e~videncing thel
ability to establish a form of govern
ment to maintain themselves or to holt
in check avaricious %neighbors who Nigh
take a notion to gobble them all down
some fine morning. The idea of thei
ability to take care of themselves is de
void of reason, sense and humanity. A
:. General Greene once wrote: eff tn
, United States evacuate these islands, an
archy and civil war Will immediatel,
ensue and lead to foreign intervention.
What nonsense it would be to apply tn
consent of the governed" principle t
these children of the tropics!