The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-04-22
Having Their Eyes Opened.


From 'hc Baltimore sun. Apr! g.
Many persons have doubtless been sur
rri-ed in reading the letters Of cur soldiers
from the Philippines to read Of pianos, car
riase>. six dresses, etc, a forming part
If the booty carried off from the deserted
Installations Of the Filipino> It's difficult
tu reconcile such evidences of civilization,
not to ,ay taste aud luxury, with the bar
harous and semi savage character OF the
pe5ple We are fighting. as described IN the
cable dispatches. but, It should be remem
bgrcd. the dispatches. which are subject 70
military censorship, are entirely silent IN
regard TO any 'looiing done By cur sol
der In fact. In the ,slbled account Of
General NacArthur'S advance uPon ant
capture ii Nalolos It was particularly stated
tina, while many of the Fihpiuo> Ia their
flight had left valuable property behind,
even money upon the tables, our soldiers
had nobly RETAINED from touching any
thIu. although IL VIZ feared. the censor
allowed it 10 lie said that the Chinese
camp follower. who brought up the rear
Il our yirt0ruu, columns were not equally
>erupulau-.
Such was the official or government, YER
sion. Ncw the truth Is coming out every
day IN the private letter. sent home 10y our
soldiers themselves Thts>. che New York
Eyeuiu. Pcs, adds Ia it, bouquc, ct choice
flowers. cuilcd from such letters the follow
in. extract given hy the Springfield Re
publicas from letter written By Captain
Albert Oti- =iyin. the results e hl> own
experience AZ Santa Ana i have >'S
horse, aud three Carriages, the captain
writes. in my yard. and enough small
thunder for a family Of six The house |
had a, santa Ana had i've pianos. |
ess.liu take them, - put BIZ grand
f,iaup cat II a Second story window You
can cues, Il, finish Everything / pretty
uuirt about here now expect We will
b., lie kept here very long now Give my
loge Ga all
From the same journal. the Post, we
al,o take the following graphic description
Of the fighting near Calooctn, furnished by
a member Of the Utah Light Battery tell
ins about the high, Of the natives aer'sS
the open country after our troops had driven
them eat of the trenches The writer
saws The scene reminded me Of the
shooting Of jack rabbits in Utah, only the
rabbit. sometimes got away. but the IN
sur.euts did not Thus the work Of ''as-
similating the natives goes brsvely on,
while 1t i equally evident that our soldiers
are making commendable progress IN those
virtues Of which-t;cyernor Roosevelt tells
us-war /, the onIy school Those who
have read Professor Worcester book on
the Philippines-the professor i now one
If Mr. Mckinley Philippine commiS-
sioners-wil have les difficulty in under
standing how the FiLpinos can be the naked
savagcs Of the cable dispatches, and, at the
same time. the pos>es>ors Of pianos and
other articles worth footing Professor
Worcester describes an experience which
he had during his last stay in the Islands.
Dining IN the evening at . house where all
the re6nemenls of civilization were obsery-
cd az a dinner Of courses served in Euro
pean Style, with silver and : lass upon the
table the guests were seated IN chairs and
in evening" dress and ob>ervant of all the
rroprieties. He had occasion To 20 to the
same house the next morning and found
his highly civilized entertainers OF the even
in. before, squatted on their hams, not
around but on the table helping them
>cIye, to their breakfast with their fingers
out Of common bowl. The professor
tell, the story to show how natural II i IN
that climate even for men Of European race
10 lapse from civilization into semi barba-
rism At the same time 1t clears up par
TALLY the mystery as to how the dwellings
of the natives should reward sometimes 50
richly the lootins prorenslties OF our sol
diers.
Meantime all this j. steadily producing
lis natural and inevitable effect at home
a. our people are gradually having their
eyes opened to the enormity and disgrace
of thi, whole Philippine business. Even
the President says Harper ; Weekly IN
its issue of April SIS reported to be
growing uneasy, ana. WITH cutting Sdl OdSu'
that journal adds I'VE are sure that,
keeping his ear to the ground, he is hearing
strange voices from the West which tell
quite different story from that which he
heard at the tail of his car, as he made his
way to and from the Omaha Exposition
last summer. There has beej, Il great re-
rulsion IF teeling IN the West, while the
anti-imperialist feeling has been strength
ened in the East We have heard within
the last ten days of the change of views of
many persons who have been in favor of
expansion, but who are shocked by the
slaughter going on in the Philippines or
who dread the loss of good American lives
and the degradation and degeneration of
GOOD American men, which must follow a
long continued occupancy of these tropical
| islands.
The same journal does not hesitate to
declare that mot only should the killing
of the Filipinos be stopped-it is estimated
that we have already killed more than the
! Spaniards murdered in their more than $50
wears of misrule-but our troops should be