The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-05-06
BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.
Private Letters from Soldiers in the
Philippines Show the Natives
are Benevolently Assim-
Hated

They did not commence Sighting over here
lCavitel for several DAYS after the var com
menced. Dewey gave them till nine @ clock
one day "a surrender. and that night ihey al
left bot q few OUT 70 their trenches. aad those
that they left burned up the towu. and 5shra
the fotca commenced burning he troops srsr,
ordered ia as far rs possible and sad klN
an lce could find. ! ran of from the hospital
and went ahead with the scouts And, you
bet ! did not cross the ocean for the fun there
there was IN H. 50 the first one ] found. hc
was in a house, down on his knees tanning
FIRE. trying to burn the house, and pulled my
old Long Tom to nv shoulder and left hsm 90
burn with the fire, which he did. ~; bis knife.
aud another Jumped out Of the window and
ran. and | brought him to the ground like
lack rabbit killed sereH that I kauar or
and one more I ds almost sure of shot ten
shots at him running and Knocked him down,
and that evening the boys out IN front Of our
trenches now found one with his arm shot of
II the shoulder and dead rs h I had
lots Of fan that m0rEiHg. There we're five
Jumped ont Of the brush aud cut one Of the
Iowa band boys, and We killed every one 81
them, and was sent back to quarters Ia the
hurry. Came reT.y mar getting courtmar-
fiai, Bat The CoioHel said he had heard that I
had done ercciieH' tn0rk. and h laughed and
said There's good stuff ia that man, and
told me NOT To leave any more without orders.
Well, John, there viii always be trouble here
with the natives unless they anEihilais all %
them AS fast as they come 10 them Letter
| from Burr Ellis Of Frazier Valley, Cal, pub
lished in Poneryille Cal. Enterprise.
| Capt Elliott Of the Kansas regiment, now
on duty in the Philippines, after describing
the fires set in Manila, last February BY the
| Filipinos, in which several hundred persisted
and 80. 900 were rendered homeless, proceeds
to say Talk about war being hell, this war
| beats the hottest estimate ever made OF that
/ locality. Caloocan was suppos ID 10 contain
| II .OOs inhabitants The Twentieth Kansas
swept through 1t and now Caloocan contains
| not one living native. OF the buildings, the
| battered walls of the great church aud the dis
| NAL prison alone remain. The village OF May
paja, where our first fight occurred on the
night Of the 4ih, had 5000 people in It at that
| day-now not one stone remains upon top OF
another 1t is useless to tell an old soldier
| that any such wholesale destruction IS neces
sary. 1t is mere vandalism. Chattanooga
| ten. Times.
''We marched about seven miles through
| the sand and went into camp for the night IN
a little bamboo village. The people had de-
serted the houses and left everything they had,
and the soldiers made short work of the whole
| thing. They looted every house and found al
most everything from pair of wooden shoes
up 10 piano and they carried everything off or
destroyed it. l did not get anything OF much
account. The other companies had got ahead
of US. Talk of the natives plundering the
towns; don't think they are in with the Fiji
teth Iowa. - Extract from letter written by
Guy Williams, private in the Fiftieth Iowa
Regiment, in the Philippines.
Il have six horses and three carriages IN my
yard and enough small pluHder for family of
six. The house | had at Santa Ana had five
pianos. | couldn't take them, SO | put a big
grand piano out of second-stOry window.
You can guess its finish. Everything is pretty
quiet about here now. expect we will not
be kept here very long now. Give my love to
ALL ~ Extract from letter written by Cap
tain Albert Otis from Santa Ana, Philippines.
Company | had taken few prisoners aud
stopped. The colonel ordered them up into
line time after time, and finally sent Capt:
Bishop back to start them. Then occurred
the hardest sight ever saw. They had four
prisoners and diden't know what to do with
them. They asked Capt. Bishop what 10 do
and he said, you know the orders, and four
natives fell dead. y Extract from letter writ
ten by Private Charles Bremen of Mihneapo-
lis, Kan.