The Monte Vista journal., 1899-10-14
C0NQUEsTS BY OTIS.
NOT or A PERMANENT CHAR
ACTER.
Ahss1sas TAsn-Thts Performance Re-

{. John T. McCutchen, the trust.
worthy correspondent Of the Chicago
Record, sends the following suggest.
I've List Of cOnquests made under Gen
eral OTIS orders:
Pasig has been captured three times
and abandoned twice.
Guadeloupe has been captured four
times and abandoned three tines.
MariQuina has been captured six
times and abandoned six times.
Canita has been captured twice and
abandoned twice.
Antipolo has been captured once and
abandoned.
Morong has been captured twice and
abandoned twice.
Santa Crux has been captured once
and abondoned.
Pagsanjan has been captured once
and abandoned.
Longos has been captured once and
abandoned.
Paete has been captured once and
abandoned.
Novaliches has been captured twice
and abandoned twice.
San Mateo has been captured once
and abandoned.
San Jose has been captured once and
abandoned.
Norxagaray hns been captured once
and abandoned.
Augot has been captured once and
abandoned.
San Miguel de Mayumn has been cap
tured once and abandoned
Mexico hns been captured twice and
abandoned once.
BacolOr has been captured twice and
abandoned once.
Macabebe. the only town friendly to
the Americana. was taken and desert
ed and allowed to be burned by the
natives.
QuinGua was taken twice and aban-
doned once
Guagua was taken once and aban-
doned.
This list Is not complete. but It shows
what lot of unnecessary work has
been done and what u lot OF lives have
been neetllessly lost Just because Otis
stubbornly persisted in sticking to his
original statement Many Of the towns
enumerated have no strategic import
ance and need not have been held. but
a great many others, like San Isidro.
and the rich towns in that district.
should certainly have been garrisoned
II We had the men to spare.
Otis now claims to have territory
sixty miles long-from linus on the
south to Angeles on the north-but he
neglects to state that In two-thirtls of
this distance 1t Is AZ much as your
life Is worth to get quarter of a mile
on the railway track. Attncks are fire.
Quently made right In the heart OF the
section which he claims is pacified and
conquered.
In conclusion. I think Otis Ia trying
TO do too much. He works sixteen
hours day. and IL usually sure to re.
fer to that fact when he gets to talk.
ing. One man cannot possibly fill the
Jobs Of civil md military leader. and
attend to nil the petty details. Otis Ia
conscientious and honest In a financial
way. He does everything he can do to
save the governments money. and de.
serves great deal Of credit for II. hut
he Isn't going about putting down the
insurrcctiOn In the right way. md
doubt whether he ever will succeed un.
less he gets 40 many men that the In
surgents will be smothrrctl TO death.
I think he should ,,e relieved OF the
military end. at least II not all. of the
Job. Bates or T.awton or Macarthur.
believe. wonld make good military
commanders II given rein. don't
know much about Wheeler. hut II
strikes mo that he would make bet
ter hrigadier than commander in
chief.
Aguinaldo will try to hold out.
think. until after next yenr's election.
hut I honestly believe that the cnm.
paign beginning late In October. II we'll
managed. can finish II NIL mn In four
month";, or before March LIST.