The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-22
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VISITOR TO HONOLULU TALKS OF
MANILA.
Dewey and Otis Should Have Been
Given a Free Hand at the Start-Fil-
ipino Character.

NJ. NJ. Shoemaker, a wealthy Ameri-
can tourist, was a through passenger
by the Gaelic yesterday for the main
land. He came direct from Manila,
where he had spent several months as
a quiet observer of events and is nat
urally brimful of what he saw and
heard
"The government made a mistake at
the start" said Mr.. Shoemaker yester-
day, "in not giving General Otis and
Admiral Dewey carte blanche authori-
ty in dealing with the rebels Had
this been done there would never have
been any serious trouble. The policy
of both these leaders in the Philippines
would have been to sit down at once
and hard on any show of contra-a
thority or rebellion.
Suppose General Kitchener, at Om-
duran, had been obliged to telegraph
his government at each crack of the ri
fle or each show of opposition, for in
struCtions, would he have ever trium-
phed over the Dervishes think you?
By no means Those ignorant people
would have concluded that cowardice
was behind it all, and Kitchener, when
the fight came, would have been face
to face with twice the number of saw
ages.
THE same obtains in the Philippines.
The Filipino is not capable of under
standing the Conciliatory policy of the
United States. Every move in this
respect has been accepted by them as
meaning cowardice on the part of the
Americans, has strengthened the hand
of Aguinaldo and made the rebellion
more pretentious each day
"While the Filipino is capable of the
rebellion he has started he is not alone
in this present matter. Behind hhiln,
and one great cause of the outbreak,
iG1n Off a
These men after the surrender have
been given the freedom of the city and
the neighboring country Being Vers-
ed in the language of the country they
have sowed sedition broadcast 1t IS
these officers who have done much TO
convince the ignorant natives that the
Americans We're towards.
There can be but one outcome of the
rebellion. 1t will amount in the end
to the complete subjugation of the Fill
ipinos, and while. as an American |
abhor that sort of thing, | feel that 1t
is both necessary and best. The Fill
pinos have been made unmitigated raS-
calls from 200 years of Spanish msrule
From Aguinaldo down they are thieves
and everything else that honest men
shrink from, and, like the crooked tree
| will be hard to straighten out. They
must first receive a most thorough
| thrashing, be brought under complete
and absolute contrnl and then given
the rope slowly.
"Education Is the next process. There
must be established a system of pub
| lie schools and education must be made
| compulsory. English should be taught
in the schools and all parents and the
children should be encouraged to stu
dy it. BY this process and this alone
will there ever be evolved a people
| among the aborigines of the Philip
| pines worthy of public trust in their
own community or of American citi-
zenship.
Il would like to remark just here
| that the feeling between Americans
and Englishmen in Manila is most graf
| flying. The English colonists there in
| termingle with our officers and our
! people and seem in every respect a
| part of us. Their sympathies are all
| plainly on our side in the affairs of
| the Islands. 1t is not fact that rela-
| tions between Americans and Germans
| in Manila are strained. | never saw
anything of it, and do not believe the
reports to that effect to be true.
| IT left before the first fight with the
| insurgents on February 5th. The re-
| suit of the skirmishes has not been a
| surprise to me in the large loss sus-
| tanned by our men in the first battle.
| Forty Americans is a good price for
1000 or 5000 Filipinos, and | hardly
| understand how so many could have
gone down unless they were too daring
| and reckless in their charges upon the
| pnpmV."