The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27
TWELVE PAGES.
Advance Agents Gone Wrong.

= ALF a dozen days ago, the st.
~ Louis Globe Democrat, one of
] the Administrators most obze-
quious servants, pointed with pride to
the fact that this year there is to be
mo vacation for the Filipinos.' That
newspaper invited US all to look sharp
and see the islanders relentlessly pur-
sued and soundly thrashed right in the
rainy season. @
Apparently, said this st. Louis
torch bearer. "the Americans are going
to break all the records in this as in
many other respects, for the Spanish
practice in the Philippines has been the
custom of the British and all other peo-
pies who have possessions in the tropi-
cal regions In the summer campaign
ing of all sorts ends. This has been
the rule so universally in tropical coun-
tries that the American practice in the
present instance is calling out good
deal of surprise, not only in Spain, but
in England, France, Germany and all
the other countries which have any ter
ritory in the neighborhood of the equa-
tor. This determination to push the
war regardless of the season until all
resistance is crushed out of the rebels
is characteristic of American practices"
This inspired talk would be inspiring
if the public had reason to pay any
heed to it. 1t would delight the public
in this country were the war to move
speedily toward it's finish; that result
would be hailed with general rejoicing.
The trouble is that the recent tidings
from Manila are of kind that is cal
culated to dampen the enthusiasm that
may have been aroused in any quarter
over rainy-season campaigning. Sun
day morning press dispatch, in quota
ton from a special to the New York
World, declared that the president has
a Manila message in which General
Otis is alleged to have Uniformed Wash.
ington of his inability to conquer the
Filipinos with the present fighting
strength at his command. Furthermore
1t is said he gave the impression that
he would be forced to abandon ground
already taken unless reinforcements
were quickly sent"
This was New York World special;
1t may be trustworthy, it may be vel
low-tinted goods. In later tidings moth
ing has gone through the press dis
patches either in confirmation or de-
NAL of the alleged Otis dispatch II
the dispatch proves to be a real one
we shall hear presently through special
dispatches edited in Washington that
Otis was altogether too sanguine from
the start" that his optimism misled the
administration" and that the command
Will now go ''to a man who knows
what's what"
Yesterday a statement was given out
by the authorities at Washington. L
was dated yesterday, at Manila, anC
was signed by General Otis. 1t leave:
in the dark the essential details of tn,
special of last Sunday to which we have
referred. 1t does not say what tn,
programme is; it remarks that "this ii
the rainy season and little campaigning
is being done in LuZon." 1t says tina
cur soldiers have worked to the limi
OF endurance anu that The req uidi les
tments lately received are inadequate
ly officered." All of which furnishe
no new light Indeed, the point of tht
dispatch appears to be in the sentenc,
which, under the censorship, may Of
may not have come from Otis, which
says: 1.-The only hope of insurgent lead
ers is United States aid. They proclaim
the near overthrow of the present ad
ministration, to be followed by theii
independence and recognition by the
United States. This is the influence
which enables them to hold out" The
moral is that if the people of these
United States would rise up as one mar
and assure the Filipinos that there viii
be no opposition to Mckinley for an,