The Weekly orb., 1899-05-28
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 The dispatches of yesterday gave the Filipino side of the struggle now going on in the recently acquired islands in the Pacific, but rather overdid the mat ter when reporting four hundred Amer ican soldiers under arrest for refusing to fight, Says the Fl Paso Graphic. It is perhaps true that there is much dis satisfaction among the volunteer sol dIers in the island of Luzon, as there is very apt to be among men who v"un- teered to fight for one caIse and through circumstances are forced to battle with the people they went to assist.
 EIt is also true, as must be judged by all the reports from the American com mander, that the vonlunteer troops are being pushed to the front, and are un. doubtedly bearing great hardships, but there are none of them under arrest for refusing to fight as it is not American nature, and there are undoubtedly many regretting the necessity of slaughtering the Filipinos, there is no shirking duty.
 No one can sympathlze with Aguinal- do, as he is known to be unprinciplei, unreliable and unfit for ruling, but his poor follow CTS are human; they have drenched the land of their birth for the cause of liberty, as they desire it, and they have the sympathy of the Ameri- can people. They cannot see the light as we see it; the die has been cast, and war is but cruel arbiter of right and wrong.
 , The Graphic believes the war unneces- sary, the result of p,litical scheming and unhcly desire for worldly honor and DO. '1iticalpreferrment, but American blood has been spilled, and whether right or wrong the enemy must be crushed. The mailed hand must strike the heaviest blows, the foe must acknowledge the conqueror, and then right and justice should step in and provide them with a government suited 10 their natures, while common sense, and the good of the nation for future generations, re- quires the withdrawal of the United States from the islands beyond the main aiming of such naval base as will warn off other nations and secure to us the trade of the people of the islands.
 It is simply natural impossibility for the Filipino to become American, as we would have the term understood, because he is the descendant Of centuries of piratical cut-throats, burn for rob- bery, rapine and murder, and not par ticularly intended by nature to be any thing else than just what he is--a bun dIe of concentrated cussedness in human form-and the attempt to Americanize him is more no less than a. waste of time, blood and treasure. Cast your pearls before swine." etc.
 The above is a fair sta atement of the Philippine situation. as viewed from our standpoint, and the ORB agrees with the Graphic when it says the ''foe must ac. knowledge the conqueror, and then right and justice should step in and provide them with government This is just the thing proposed to be done: But the Filipeno must first show his, willingness to become good citizen aHd his ability to be- just and righteaus before the reins of government will be turned over into his keeping. The Go'l of..nations is directing the destinies of His people, and the Filipino must be lifted from the slums of his "centuries of pi- ratical" teachings. The United States is the agent of this great ruling power to place the Filipino on higher plane of civilizations and to put him in the way of becoming man among men :. This is the work we have in hand, and it must be thoroughly and we'll done before the seal of appreciation will be placed upon it.