The record-union., 1899-06-19
REBELS BIG STORIES.
How the Republics Filipino" Re-
ports Biz Victories.

The rebels also have their war cor
respondents at the front, sending big
sensations to their readers, to glorify
the heroic deeds which never .)ccur and
to initiate the pride of people already too
bucephalic. Thus, there is no differ
ence between civilized and uncivilized
man when it comes to display of the
weaknesses Of human natunre. Human
nature Us the same all the world over,
whether the skin be white or black.
On the battlefield of Guiguinto Just
before Malolos, pickedeup a few news
papers which I saw sticking out Of the
pocket of a corpse. No rebel newspapers
have been coming TO Manila or within
the lines at all, so I was t.ike every
body else on this side, .QuitAE in the
dark as to the rebels side of the story.
and very anxious to learn. So 1 was
guilty, for this occasion only, of corpse
looting.
The rebels evidently have as much
journalistic ability and enterprise as
the Americans, for they make
as much fuss over trivial
skirmish, and shout Victory" just as
loud when there lis just as little to
shout about. American papers are full
of tremendous battles, in which guns
roared and thundered, the air was full
of bullets, a perfect hail OF molten lead,
the mighty metronome of modern
armaments resounded far and wide
over the field of glory" and two rsen
were slightly wounded The other side
says just the same. It is all fudge.
There has been nothing at all APP
preaching what could be properly called
a decently lively election meeting. The
total death rate from fighting since
February 4th to April 4th, say sixty
days, has averaged about five per day
on the American side, and ten per day
on the rebel side, at which rate, with
armies Of 5000 and &c, 600, it will take
years and years to finish them, and
most will die of old age. But the de-
scriptive writing on both sides makes
up for the poor show of fight. The
Americans are great at writing but the
Filipinos are greater. If "The New
York Howler'' hath slain his thousands
The Malolos Magnif1er" hath slain his
tens of thousands.
There is a remarkable similarity
about the styles OF sensationalism
personally, consider myself a con-
noisseur of lies.) The American re-
ports invariably state: "Enemy's s
losses severe, but exact figures unob-
tainable, because the dead were re-
moved in order to prevent US Knowing ~
l know this is so, because the censor
has made me put it in my kilograms
sometimes. If the recording angel has
chalked the fiction UP against me,
shall repudiate responsibility The
.l,<,Jx
bers of Americans were seen to drop
dead before our gallant attack, but the
enemy concealed the extent Of their
losses by removing the corpses." No
doubt the poor Filipino. when bullied
into saying this when he doesn't want
to, consoles himself by conjuring up in
his winds eye the picture of similarly
afflicted Me-
The "Republica Filipina,' right up to
March 23d, maintains that all the
American attacks on Caloocan have
failed, and it adds that the Americans
are trying their best to make bold
show and keep UP appearances; but
they are weaker and weaker every time
they assail us, and the climate, to
which We are accustomed, is killing
them off like flies'' 1t goes on to de-
scribe how the brave and clever Gen
eral Luna, Minister of War, directed
operations, now standing on the ton
of Caloocan church to survey the sur
rounding country. now coming down to
visit the remotest outposts and encour-
age the men to get right into Manila.
Now Caloocan was taken on February
10Th. I know, for 1 wes there. And
on the date of this publication, March
23d, the Americans were in sight of
Malolos itself. But the k-slinger
has to earn his bread, honestly if you
can, but' -
Americans are the same. know a
correspondent here who got an angry