The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-04-19
The Imperial War.

Some of the private letters print
ed in different parts of the country
venture on more details of the fight
ing in early February than General
Otis found it convenient or COM
Portable to give. The Spokane
"Review" of March %, has extracts
from letters received from Washin-
pton volunteers at Manila. e. ID.
Furman writes very bitterly against
the insurgents, declaring that all
the "boys" have come to be of the
opinion that 1.-The only good Filipi-
no is dead one" In describing
the scenes after the battles of Feb
ruary 4 and 5 this gallant soldier
wrote:
We burned hundreds of houses
and looted hundreds moro. Some
of the boys made good hauls of jew
elry and clothing. Nearly every
man had at least two suits of cloth
ing and our quarters are furnished
in style-fine beds with silken dra-
perry, mirrors, chairs, rockers, cush-
ions, pianos, hanging lamps, rugs,
pictures, etc. We have horses and
carriages and bull-carts galore, and
enough furniture and other plumber
to load a steamer
President Mckinley might have
this printed as an annex to the
familiar recruiting handbills. 1t
does not appear that many prison
ers have been taken in our conflicts
with the natives since early in Feb
ruary. An explanation probably
may be found in such accounts as
that sent on by Mr.. Blake, of Cali
fornia, in charge of Red Gross work
at Manila, who describes the horri-
BILE sights encountered in going
over the contested ground through
the heaps of native dead, whore
were to be seen "total decapita-
tions," "horrible wounds in chest
and abdomen" Showing the deter
mination of our soldiers to kill every
native in sight" To the same eff
feot telegraphed the Now York
"Sun" correspondent at Manila a
day or two ago:
To shoot man at siX-feet range
with a Springfield rifle is hard
thing to do, but the orders were to
let no insurgent live, and off would
go the whole side of his head or he
would fall with wound through
the abdomen large enough to drop
a potato through.
"The orders were to let no insur-
gent live" Showing the deter
mination of our soldiers to kill
every native in sight"
The Philippine commission has
had it's proclamation printed in
three or four languages and scatter
ed broadcast. Commissioner Den
by declares it "the most important
document since the Declaration of
Independence" even if it does set
aside and reject the basic principle
of the Great Declaration that Gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
The question arises, judging from
what we know of other wars of con-
quest and subjugation, whether the
war in the Philippines after the
fashion indicated above, and of
course known to the natives in the
most exaggerated narration, will do
as much to aggravate the Filipinos
as the peace proclamation did to
pacify themP The future will tell.
AT the outset of the Revolutionary
war General Howe scattered procla-
nations reading as smoothly as this
Philippine proclamation. The only
effect they had was to aggravato
The Filipinos arc as determined,
united and courageous as the Amer
leans in 177G, and their numbers, if
that is claim to nationality and
independence, are three times
greater than the American colo
nists.-Pittsburg Post.
Col, MOOrc'S Position.