The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-15
AS VIEWED AT WASHINGTON.


tBY G. A. EDwARDs)
Washington, May 12.-tstaff specbal''--
This fecuient and fetid administration Il
just beginning to realize that II is up
against the hardest game over In the rh''-
ippInes that any set of indiNduais
sponsoie for the management OF TINS guy
eminent ever encountered.
1t has learned the sad truth Just since
Otis left the island. He has been uoe'Vi
ing the returns from the Philippines ~
long that even the administration know
nothing OF the true state Of anairs ~ .na.
plague spot Of the Orient 1t seems 'n" 10,
General Macarthur, who WIS notnlhs puN
a clerk in the war department p.toIo
ing over there, Is getting search anu
letting the truth come ont for pruaeutiai
reasons. He sees the handwriting on 'ne
walls Of Manila, and he does not care W
be caught mapping.
The dispatches bring us the news e'e.s
day that the Fillpinos are again III w
saddle. In other words, taey are again
getting their scattered remnants together
for the purpose OF doing business AT inc
old stand And they have already oegun;
1t Is said that Agunildo has recovereu
from his last death and has joined limo,
one OF the best fighters in the rar-Ss Oh
those brown skinned alleged baroariahs'
and Is preparing to make things warm
for the men who are still over there TO
whip those people.
News comes every day that the Filtpinos
are besieglng and burning the towns that
they capture and they seem TO have no
trouble in taking every town they 70 ar
ter. Why? Because they are not garrt-
soned by American troops, and II they
are the garrison Is only handful OF
men who can not cope with the big bands
which invest the towns. What does all
this mean? II means simply that the Fill
pines intend to lay waste the entire island
Of Luzon They intend to make the island
absolutely uninhabitahle, unless the Amer
lean government can send enough men
over there to conquer them. Realizing that
this is the intention Of those people, Cen
eral Young has already begun to call for
more men.
What are The people OF this country GO
ing to do about It VIII they send more
men over there to be Killed, die OF enterc
fever or so insane?
No wonder the republicans inserted an
item In the sundry civil bill to purchase
tract of land adjoining st, Elizabeth's
asylum for the insane, which is near
Washington, and is used for all the men
who become insane while in the army or
navy OF the United States. They needed
that tract OF land and would have had the
Item passed II the democrats had not dis
covered a steal in It, exposed 1t and had
the item killed There IS no doubt that
the asylum needs enlarging There were
over $50 insane patients placed in that
asylum within the past month aud every
one of them came from the Philippines
That is not generally known but 1t IS
true. newspaper man can get no news
Of such a character from the war depart
ment or from any of the officials % the
asylum. But the relatives of the afflict-
ed who visit the asylum can learn these
facts and they tell them afterward,
Now then, will we send more men to
the Philippines to meet similar fate, or
turn loose7 1t Is a certainty that the
people OF this country will not vote to
increase the army another man. and It Il
becoming an equal certainty that we can
not whip those Filipinos with the force
we have over there at present Thew are
going to fight until they are extermnated
and That will take fifty wears or more to
accomplish. In the meantime thew will
burn every town IN tho island o. Luzon
that Is not garrisoned nv a large force m
Americans and the force Of Americans
over there Is not large enough h Garrison
all the big towns in the island with men
sufficient to repel an attack of the ma
tives.
Another fact must also he taken into
consideration. Those towns could not be
garrisoned by any small force Of Amerl-
cans in the first place. unlsss the natives
who live In them were friendly to our
troops When these natives Fl. out that
the hostile Fllipinos intend to burn and
destroy all their property, should they
show friendly feeling for the American
troops and allow them to garrison their
towns. they will no longer do so. There
fore, when in future there is 4 small garri-
son left in any Of these towns It viii n-
massacred by the people who live in the
towns IN order 10 obtain immunity from
the Filipino torch,
What are We going TO do about It? One
of three things will have to be done. We
win have to abandon the island or We
VIII have TO send over there another free
of 100000 men. or we will have to abandon
the interior OF the island entirely. confne
our occupation exclusively to the coast
towns and cities and utilize every man
towns. That will not only cost the life
OF every man now in those islands. but
II WIFI cost the sum OF s5OoO 900 per
annum.
Which dose Will you take? win YOU
! follow this administration and fght on
at fearful cost or put In a sans adm,nis-
tration that will do the thing that ought
to BIO done?
The republicans are up against It again
AS gentleman, and republican, said
to me today; There Is onlv one thing
that the republican party can 20 that Is
worse than remaining IN the Philippines
and that IS to get out IT them" In other
words, they are in . bad Ak They will
he damned II thew do and they will be
damned II they don't
~
The republican vice presidential scene
shifts almost daily now. "Check-took
Dick said TO me the other day: "Hunch
Lohs, he's the winner" I am told today
by another man to pin my faith to the
elongated senator from the State Of In
diana, Mr.. Fairbanks,
Il may be that the administration has
come TO the conclusion that there Is more
danger h. Indiana than in the state OF
Afoc 81, A..