Daily inter mountain., 1899-09-27
American Sailors Are thc
Best on Earth.
THE MURDER OF LUNA
FiAfsnes Ar. Not Yet Cicanle Of Self
Gnv-rnnent--utiS Eis Too Much
work to PerIorU-AiniraI S Not
Politician.

FEE-Il-s CE1LS i1-acvI=7T with Admiral Dew.
Fey Eh=g a-e splendid lot - All
1l-r4- S;aL- speaking . him man stt4 very
PIG. t1= 11=s- r -ne zavy ars that
mans n oe=s- II -he world Before 7
g2- - Ma1iL ! ct= archbishop. xt-a
TTs122-- =tc4rvari became very intimate
sal that c1= American sailors wAre -ra
scum Of the earth. eur-rrroa-S wb5
would destroy everything in their path
Later on when ! ga1 - Manila. rh4 a-sa-
bishop game On board while / had ! trE-I
4 - IHz SANE battalion The archbGshoa
= Went IN the bridge and watched -n-r7,
closely | anew n was airrltrirz rn-nl
and said "a him Well. what do You
think % our American sailors
Th-g are splendid h SAID + rava
seen th= mem Of ulosc nayt4s. bt.. never
/ anything like these. They are mag
AtEie-7l I cannot understand i5-such
splendid fellows. How does il nanrar ),
We'll said the admiral. We look for
the b=ss men We come closer 10 our
men we treat than better than other
Countries do and We pay them better.
Then I called man and said 10 him.
How muc:l do you get a month";
de- saluted and said Eighty dollars,
The archbishop was as1onished. YOU
-AttP'f " 'otA.h Hd. q NuQEH SlIOEpaI
of spaaiards- After that the archhish-
op had a very decent respect for Us and
became very friendly Here l have 4
picture of General Luna. which was
gwen 70 me by the archbishop"
The admiral then sent an oraer,v fol.
the picture Of the Philippine general
Who was murdered by order 81 Agui-
naieo as he said. The picture was
that OF negro in a sort of military uni
form On the back was an inscription
In Spanish TO the archbishop Of Manila
Father Bernardino Mesaiado. II Mas
signed BY Luna. Admiral Dewey then
said that Luna was the best man rha
Fiiipinos had. 1T was a plot To assas-
sinate him.. he said ia crack swords
man was placed as sentry ana when
But these fellows all said the admiral.
are queer lot. They We're simply ser
wants and stable men and Agunaldo Mas
junior clerk in the navy yard. h is
a pretty smart fellow. | know him
pretty wen. In fact, we were great
has not the brains. There are people
behind him. some OF them lawyers and
able fellows, who made tool Of Aguin-
aldo. Here. by the way. is cane which
produced thick black stick carved and
resembling Irish bog oak more than
anything else.
Il thought. said the admiral. that
this thing in the Philippines would be
over long before this as it should have
stood out until now OF course. there
was the rainy season and l suppose lit
tie was done. One great trouble out
there has been that Gen. Otis has tried
to do too much. l told him SO. He
wants TO be general, governor judge
and everything else. to have hold of all
the reins. No man can do that. This is
the great trouble. 1t is enough for a
man to do one thing. to be one thing. but
when man tries to do everything aud
be everything it is easy to imagine the
result.
The fight in the Philippines should
lbe easily ended. The people have been
SO badly treated for such length of
time by the Spaniards that they are
distrustful. This is the great difficulty
in dealing with them Where we have
met them and they have been in such
contact With US as to learn that We
mean to treat them Well, where they
have seen that we mean what we say.
all the time. All of them will learn this
in time. They will get from under the
influence of Aguinaldo or rather those
people who are behind Aguinaldo. who,
as | said before. is a mere tool.
DO / think the Filpinos are fit for
self government? Well, no, not just
now. They probably will be in little
time They are very queer people
la very queer mixture. Many OF them
are quite civilized and good people, but
, do not think they are tit for sell gov
ernment just vet. hut when say
that, l must add at the same time that
1t is my candid opinion that they are
more fitted for it than the cub2ns that
they are a better people than the Gu
hans in every way l do wish, how
ever that the whole business was SET
fled and / think that after little the
Filipinos will take kindly 10 US.
1t was suggested to the admiral that
the democratic slate had been settled
with Admiral Dewey for the presidency
and General Wheeler for the vice presi-
dency.
..Weu," said the admiral 1--WE would
make pretty mess of 1t. General
Wheeler, of course, has had some tram
ing in the political school, but then he IS
a West Pointer. / had forgotten That.
He would want to run everything as he
would a regiment, and. of course. would
make a mess of it, You cannot run a
government as you would regiment
well, admiral suggested the re-
porter, sit would not be such a change
from the ship Olympia to the ship of
state"
YES" said the admiral. at would be
very great change. | am not a polit-
clan; I am a sailor. My training has
been all that way. | am at home on
board my ship. l know my business. or
at least should know it, and l do not
want to mix UP in the affairs of the gov