The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-16
A VERY PERTINENT INQUIRY.
THE ADMINISTRATION CoNCEALiaG
Truth FROM THE PEOPLE.
Giving M Intelligence ms 10 the
Number OF Americans in Hos
pital in Manila.

New York. June 15.-IIon. j. r. Eustis
wrote the following communication with
regard TO the government policy OF with
holding vital information concerning our
troops in the Philippines
To the Editor Of the Evening Post,
sir: II it were not for your able COM
ments upon the situation in the Philip
pine islands, we would be deceived by
the dispatches from Washington, which
are based upon the meager and mislead-
ing information benevolently furnished by
the war department. There is, however,
one very important matter which seems
to be entirely overlooked, and it is Tor
this reason that venture to ask the priv
ilege OF trespassing upon your space. II
YOU can enlightcu us upon this question
of the condition Of the health OF our army
| in the Philippines, you Will stlll more
crafty your readers who have followed
your Intelligent discussion of this Phil
ippipe question with undated interest
Why is it that for weeks one has valniy
sought for the slightest allusion by our
government TO this vital question: When
we commenced To DISCHARGE the duty thai
we owed TO civilization. humanity, to the
Turppean powers and to everybody else
except ourselves, ne war department. al,
most daily published a health pulietln OF
our army in the Philippines. Ihat was
1 very considerate on the part OF Mr. Anger
he did not wait as he did in the case o.
Santiago. until the officers Of that army
we're forced TO commit the insuhordlnat'
act of signing a round robin TO inform
e him of the deplorable condition OF TIT
health OF the army
us the number of our brave soldiers N
e the hospitals in the Philippines so lhsls
j niacant that It is not worthy OF special
. rotice? Or is 1T so large that the war de
= partment does not dare to publish IL on
n account of the impending election In ono
d 4 week ago a dispatch was publlshed IRON
. Manila that 800 soldiers were Transports
It bv the hospital ship on account OF prostra
= ton by the heat A few days later an
u other dispatch announced that Az per zen
,e NJ an expeditionary force had succumbe
i IN nrosfration by heat You published yes
al terdav some very definite tntornauo
= from an unouestionable source which wa
10 that the First Nebraska regiment, OUT
- 800 men. had only 300 NJ Tor outy Una
20 the Fifty-frst Iowa regiment had NOR
10 than 30 per cent of men unit lot uuto
=, This makes very large average peIreh'
W AGO NJ men unfit for duty, and. If the
,o are sick in the hospitals, it is justlhcauo
- NJ one of the many powerful argument
which we're used by the anti lmperiaiia,
. against this criminal blunder OF the ad
- ,nJnietration was in Paris when Il
~ French government sent its expeditional
a., force to Madagascar, in three months I1'
&c y, the flower of the French army we
w, buried in that foreign land, only sixty
nd them having been killed by tho bullets
he the enemy The frightful loss from sici
,iy ness was due to the criminal plumbers
is the French secretary OF war Gehelsi Ai ~
~ American people believe that only abo
Il AGO of our troops lost their lives throu
ce the criminal incompetence Of our war d
r. partment It is to be hoped that the go
,e, eminent is not Withholding TINS linpo
ny ant information because 1t fears the
~ j. B. Eusus