The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-12

lets and bayonets have been fairly sue
cessful in snutfing out uprisings and the
Killing has been more One-Sided
In these islands of the Orient there
are hundreds of families who believe
that the killing of a white man insures
a triumphant entry into paradise. The
Americans will become Acquainted with
the ungovernable hatred of the Moham-
medan for the Christian, something
that Englishmen learned generations
ago to look sharply out for and which
keeps them constantly on their guard
in the East After Aguinaldo has been
shot or hanged and gathered to his
fathers, there will still be the Sulus to
| reckon with. If the residents of the
Philippines have been communicative
to our soldiers. they have probably
! warned them by now to keep their rifles
ready when SuluS are in the vicinity.
An organized band belonging to this
tribe are murderers by religion. They
are trained drilled and taught to be-
come assassins. Some night, should the
Americans fail to convince the islanders
that they are friends and not foes to
the Filipinos, little knot of soldiers
will be seated around camp fire,
laughing, chatting, full of life. In the
neighboring bush, knife in hand.
stripped for bloody work, will Turk the
Sulu professional murderer. A bound
will bring him into the midst of the
group around the fire. Slash Cut!
Slash! Cut. until half of the members
of the company have felt the keen edge
or sharp point of the assassin's knife,
and then the Sulu bounds off into the
dark bush and is speedily safe from
pursuit. Every touch of the knife
means death, for the daggers of these
ferocous brutes are stepped in poison
as deadly as the venom of a viper 1t
is on record that four of these Sulu
devils killed no less than 80 members of
a Christian assemblage that they at
tackled one day. They are absolutely
fearless. counting rather than seeking
to evade death, and are more DANGER
Gus than the worst wild animal liv-
ing.
A remarkable thing about the natives
of these islands, and one that will add
greatly to our troubles in establishing
peace, is the lack of cohesiVeness. The
tribes of the mountains, the coast
jewellers and the people of the lowlands
each live in their own manner, ignor-
ing their neighbors. Indifferent to the
welfare of any one but themselves and
only coming out of their shells when
they think their rights are being tres
passed upon. Then they will fight to
the last gasp. If a sort of fiery cross
were sent out by Aguinaldo and the
passions Of the whole native community
aroused against the Americans THESE
savages would band together and pre-
sent an unbroken front against the
common enemy. In the horde there
would be black men, brown men, yell
low-brown men and yellow men. Their
savage instincts would be inherited
from the tribes who overran the Philip
pines centuries ago. The Spaniards
have done nothing to eradicate these
savage instincts, On the contrary, their
treatment of the native has intensified
the hatred with which the white tyrant
has always been regarded and has made
a path thorny indeed for those who fol-
low the Spaniards.
Were it only Manila that the United
States had to rule in the Philippines.
there would be no great difficulty before
us. The native population of this city
is estimated to be about 900, the
Spanish half breed 5000 and Europeans