Arizona republican., 1899-02-15
TO PUSH THE CKMpAEGN.
Vigorous Measures Will Be Taken
 Against FilipinoS.

Washington. Feb. 14.-It is under stood that the campaign against the Philippine insurgents is to be prose- cuted with vigor The question has been given due consideration by the administration and the conclusion reached that before permanent peace 1 or security to life and property can be secured Aguinaldo's forces must be made to lay down their arms, and 1t is expected that General Otis, in CO., operation with Admiral Dewey, will push forward at once and give the in surgents no chance to recover from their recent defeat. So far as can be learned, no positive instructions havo yet been cabled to Manila. but it is the expectation of members of the ad- 7ninistration, presumably based on cable dispatches from Manila. that this course will be pursued.
 The more closely the insurgents are pressed, and the more vigorous and de- termined the campaign, it is said. tha sooner may we expect peace.
 One officer, who has done as much Indian campaigning as almost any man in the department, said yesterday in discussing the situation:
 'Eyery day that is lost ia following up the insurgents means an added tel men to the American death list. when the final summing up Of the Philip pine situation is made. The Philip pine natives arc like all half-savage people, they are governed in their own aggression by nothing but a fear Of being whipped by their enemy, and they cannot understand any forbear- ance on the part Of an opponent ex- cept on the theory that he is afraid of them. We have had the same thing for thirty years in our own Indian wars The British lave had the same thing in India and Africa, and so have all the Caucasian races wherever they have had to deal with half civilized peoples. We lost more men and killed more Indians in the west through the mild, tempOrizing and supposedly humane policy of successive admins tratiCns than we ever would have lost in few sharp, sound thrashings ad- ministered in successive allopathic doses, just to show the untut0red savage that we meant business. and would whip him first and treat him right afterward.
 When the government abandoned the old Milk River Route as it was called, through the northern Sioux country, and evacuated the lands to the Indians by treaty it really precip- itated the whole Of the great Sioux uprising that included the Custer mas sacre. This may sound harsh and prejudiced, but the fact was that in spite Of the treaty and pow-wows the Indians thought we withdrew from their country because we were afra d of them, and they went to burning abandoned military stations, and as there was nobody there to stop them and nobody cared whether they burn ed them or not, they went from that to the war path, and commenced w1p- ing out settlements outside their con- sessions.
 "The case is just the same today in the Philippines It is unfortunate for them that the natives cant under stand a humane policy on the part of this government or that we intend to deal honorably with them. Forbear ance on our part now simply means to them that we are afraid of them, and the quicker we whip them thoroughly and disabuse their minds, the sooner we can enter upon an era of peaceful reconstruction and re- form