The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-17

the Chicago Record, the other day, pre-
sents the Otis method of carrying on the
war MIR. McCutcheon was the first
American correspondent at Manila, and
was there with Dewey on the day Of
the admiral's great victory. He gives
the names of no less than twenty-one
Philippine towns and cities that have
been captured by the Americans and
abandoned, and some of them captured
and abandoned two or three times. Mr..
McCutcheon says: "This list is not COM
plete, but it shows what lot of unnec-
essary work has .been done and what q
lot of lives have been needlessly lost
just because Otis stubborn1y persists"
in sticking to his original plans Of cap
turing towns and then abandoning them.
Some of these towns are Of little import
ance, but others are rich towns and i'm
portant to hold If we are to retain pos
session of the Philippines. This is war
in it's most cruel shape, for 1t leaves to
the tender mercies of the enraged Phil
ippine soldiery people of their race who
have shown a purpose to help the Amer
leans.
General Otis might condescend to hear
Aguinaldo or his representatives on
some other basis than that of absolute
surrender. AS to Aguinaldo, we have
this sketch in a statement by General
Reeve, who was chief of police at Ma
nila for q long time under American oc-
cupation. To the New York Tribune
General Reeve says:
In October last year, when paid Ag-
uinaldo a visit, one thing he told me
was that the only religion they knew
was the Catholic, but that they had dis
ISOLATED church and state, and that
any sect and religion would be allowed
to come in and teach the Filipinos the
tenets of its faith.
was favorably impressed with Ag.
uinaldo, and do not think there is any
doubt about his integrity of purpose
This talk about his selling out is moth.
ing but rubbish Personally he is an in
telligent and we'll informed man, anC
seemed to know about everything goinl
on in the world. The men about hin
attached to his headquarters-som,
twenty in number-were q bright anC
Intelligent lot. All of them had been ed
ucated abroad and spoke English per
fectly-in fact, as well as you or 1 do.
A regular army officer of rank, who's,
name is not given for obvious reasons
in letter to the New York Evening
Post, from Manila, August IA, makes
this statement. which serves as a hu
name and truly American comment OF
the savagery of Otis and his hom,
hackers: He says:
| Let us say to the Filipinos: 1--WE de
stroyed the Spanish fleet and drov,
the Spanish army from Manila as wa
measure against Spain; that havint
been accomplished, we became respon
sible for the protection of life and prop
erty on these islands. We did not theI
believe you were capable of doing this
we have since learned that Admira
Dewey was right when he said that yol
were far superior to the Cubans anC
capable of self-government. We desir,
that you shall establish a government
that will protect life and property; w,
will aid you in doing this, and when yol
have accomplished it we will withdraw.
This proposition would bring abou
peace in 4S hours.
| If we are not willing to do this, "if tht
administration has not the moral cour
age ;" he says, "let it put the army here
on the defensive and raise 100, 900 NOR,
men, furnish them with all the mean.
of waging vigorous war, then when eve
rything is ready, six or seven month!
hence, make one grand move and enc
the war in forty days or less, and will
loss Of less than 500 men in killed anC
Wounded-perhaps not one hundred mer
would be hit by bullets. This method i.
plain and simple and could be done
Ninety-nine per cent of the officers OF
the islands are opposed to the halfway
policy; they prefer the peace policy, bu
would vigorously prosecute the war pol
icy."