The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-27

a lot Of Lively and interesting Lies.

Lot of Lively and Interesting Lies.
Three Hes to simple quarter Of truth is about the
proportions which go make the romances reaching
these shores from Manila through correspond
ents and BY the flood private letters written by the boys
to the folks at home country lad unexpectedly picked
ana started westward direction he is kept going
by rain and by sea, west becomes the east and
that boy ten thousand from whose mid
night IL the day and queer
peoples found his journey. and his magna-
ton the degree that It is hard for him to
realize whether a-horseback To expect
monplace aggregation Of such boys daily
comparing experiences reasonable suppo-
sition Weak inaninty habby would be the fellow
who failed Interestingly extravaganty. Of ali
he saw and strangely those dear ones
at home who in loving cherishing his
prouder Of his accomplishments Under such circuIn-
stances Luzon rivulets rivers to SWIM hiocks
mountains to scale irrigation bitches deep entrench-
nents impossible crossing with dead Tagal regularly
every morning How else could the boy who
had driven his team quiet radiance Of Kan
sas summer morning be Philippine daring to do and
die? And so while these read through blurring
streams Of teas Joy PRIDE in the purping twi-
light of Kansas day dotng at home and with
unfang by public, all make due allowance
for the authors environment with mental "God bless
him" for his audacy estimating creduy, not only
forgive swing hats with hurrah AS for the
correspondents and their round robins they are
simply earning paid them by which
would not accept prosy unvarnshed facts with their mill
of readers calling persistently for "hOt stuff"
Our soldier boys are parading around
the barracks Of Philippine heads pixies and
slipping made Of Tagal skulls served
by These boys who wont to put on their
Sunday drive the district school house to hear
their best girls not jammng their
through doce insurgents to utilize the prOrud-
ing points hang their hats These are but rO-
inspired unexpected surroundings written upon
hand interest those who cannot investigate for
themselves the other by correspondents for the
These writers who talk the most
guine firing ne" prisoners not murdered;
with the stencil Of the dead
waters the ngd red with blood the fishes
flesh Of undisposed Of all Of which
per cent copperhead has been maintaining
practically. New York Post the misled,
having directed correspondent to out and write only
the facts and having later received the result now re-
tracts that insurgents who have been shOt
jacabits" in the language Of the boys. were not
Agunaldos bushwhackers whose dupicity and
treachery continual to the life Of the Ameri
volunteer the American boy guilty of
stealing chickens when hungry demeanng himself in every
way following extracts from the Posts
respondent prove interesting readers of the
eagle. He
my experience is that most unreliable pub
States, the romantic and Imagn-
ave that contained in the private letters which thought
less and njudciOus parents wives and friends have given
for ufain all the INN
gossip circulate throughout the
army hops" pipes constitute the daily
topics conversation. the form
In which they circulate any genuine
foundation whatever. I" know a special duty
who has shifted the smoke Of battle. who wrote
letter which We take prisoners kill
them Them pub
Hshed good evidence letter Kansas
who said he killed prisoners join IN
charge I heard o instance, believe
there has been OF the deliberate killing of Filipino
taken prisoner That do prisoners
by the two three thousand that have been
the 'front.' nearly OF whom liberty
have been released at the
front and TO town, among them regular
Insurgent uniforms captured conflict
do not kill the wounded shown by the fact that
800 Filipino wounded have been, being
hospitals being given good surgical
attention / have soldiers stop while
advancing lines from which insurgents
Just been driven up the wounds of Filipino
diers with their hrst-ad packages and give them dak
from their canleers carefully they had
renty their comrades who fell in the same
contest"
New York Democrats for Bryan.
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