The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-19
FROM rHEo. sHAEEER.


letter written nome 10y IheO. Snal.
fer 10 mis- parents, air and Ms. n.
Snatfer.
at Isge.tlng To be very mOnOtouous
ana We hope either to advance soon
and engage the ieUels IN Oatt,o or Ue
eeut 10 tho rear 10 rect.
| see by euue ui TIE newspapers
that the capture of CalOUcau Is credit
Ell to otner ,eg lmeDts IMAM ours. The
2Otn WAS tie only regiment that went
through CaloOcan and ~ US solely be-
IoDgs, "hat ever glory there is in 1t,
for routing the rebels from their
strongly fortified position. Our regi-
meut buried, 1 am told over three
hundred dead niRgers or good niggers
as we call them.
The natives have tried in vain TO
bnrn Manila but nave not entirely
succeeded. A good part of the SUI
burOs OF the town consisting mostly
of bambpo '7uacka' have been burned
There ire suue Inteti"r lo"h, his1
that have teen "estrOSed ny ne,
some by tie ud.lre- tnvn.se,Nos anu
some by our troupe. n good many
of the natives burn their own homes
and flee to the Filipino lines. | have
Just been reading some accounts Of
the charge we male Oh Feb. 9TH. The
articles IN the ps pers are true in some
particulars but misleading in others
1t is "a fact that a scouting party had
been out aud had heen fired on by the
rebels but the charge was made by
tn ee companies ouly Wis |. Il aud {.
No other part of the regiment was Gu
gagged except II squad or so OF men
taken out by Capt, Cnristv who very
near made a fatal mistake 10y firing
into the right of our company when
we were coming out of the brush. 1
do not like to see false reports of those
engagements Ms it leads one to believe
that it was worse than what really
happened. OF course we got iuto n
very hot fight a. long as 1t lasted
which was not very long. No REIN
forcements were brought up whatev-
er. think the intention of that
charge WAS to dislodge the enemy's
eharpshOOters but the sequence was
we run into something warmer than
We expected.
have no fear of the results of this
war at all. If you could see the
Americans in battle you would also
say that IL simply means the defeat
of Aguinaldo and his followers. Ihe
men n ,
are deluded lot OF people VINO in the
end will recognize the great mistake
tney have made they are led 20 be-
lieve by their leaders tnat IN the
event the United States controls these
Islands, that they Will be slaves, that
their property will be taken away
from them, that if they are captured
ny us they will be tortured and that
other things TOO numerous TO mention
will happen to them they are led
70 believe bv their leaders that we arr
lot of tiends, cut.thrbats, thieves
and all rOuni devils. These FilipinJs
are people very easily let ana e
cruelty worked on ny their leade =.
But some day these leaders will
wake up and zee what "a senseless
thing they have been doing and their
followers awakening to the same
thing will DO thirsty for vengeance
which will he wreaked upon these
same selfstyled lea iers 1t is plain
10 see what AguinaldO is after by
holding out against our government
He has in his power some ten thous
aud Spanish prisoners tor whom he
wants money and arms and he is now
after a money consideration and 0
good fat Office ] have no doubt from
the Uuited States, and if things were
done according to some of the ideas o
the easy pc, pie Of the United States
/ suppose he wOuld be given money
and q good fat Off 20. The smartest
natives among the ir own race are very
conceited, but among other races o.
people get it taken out of them which
will happen 10 Agui ialdo and Other
leaders. There are very few mer
among the American troops that art
in the least terrified by these nIgPerC
and most everything they do is made
fun of by us for it Is very laughabl'
the way in which they go about tn dc
some things. These people are Rreal
imitators and try to initiate us in ev
cry thiug we do, We are not afraid
of being shot by them il they are try
ing to puncture us but it is when they
are shooting at somebody or some
thing else that we are ''leary" of get
ting hit.