The Iola register., 1900-10-19
A LETTER FROM MANILA
A Collapse of the Rebellion If Bry an
Is Defeated, He Says

Kansas City, Oct. 16.-Frank Hud-
son, of the Hudson-Kimberley COM
any, received letter yesterday from
lieutenant colonel in Manila. The
officer is on General MacArthur's
staff and has attained prominence in
the army as a writer of several works
on military subjects. For several
years he was an instructor in the in
fantry and cavalry school at Fort |
Leavenworth, and for a year prev
ious to the Spanish war was an as
sistant adjutant general at Washing |
ton. A part of his letter follows;
1--WE are very far out of the world
here, and by the time we receive any
news from the United States it has
already passed into ancient history.
/ can see that Webster Davis has
turned complete pc litical somer-
sault, but he does not seem to have
captured the nomination for the Vice
Presidency, which he was SO palpably
seeking.
"The results of the presidential
campaign are watched here with
great interest, not only by ourselves,
but by the insurgents. The insur-
gents think that the Democrats are
their friends and the Republicans
their enemies. must say that |
think the Democrats have a choice
lot of friendsin the thieving cutthroats
who now pose as patriots inthe Philip
pines. But, on the other hand, the
Filipinos undoubtedly have a choice
aggregation of friends in the Bryan
outfit. The insurgents are straining
every nerve at present to keep up the
fight until after the election, in hopes
that the possible success of Bryan
may terminate matters in their favor.
"The election of Mckinley would in
my opinion, be followed almost inn
mediately by total collapse of in
surgent efforts.
1T is a curious fact that one of the
national airs of the insurgent Filipi-
nos is called "The Aguinaldo-Bryan
March" | do not know that l would
suggest this as very polite march
for Democratic torch-light process
sessions to adopt, but there is no
question as to the title of the march,
nor the warm sympathy of the insur-
gents for the Democratic outfit.
1T is all very beautiful to talk
about the iniquity of conducting
government with out the consent of
the governed; but in point of fact, the
Insurgents represent only portion of
the population, and even if every
Tagalo in existence were in the in
surgent ranks, they would, by no
means, represent the total population
of the islands. If we were, TO our
everlasting shame, TO withdraw from
these islands and turn them over to
Aguinaldo and his bandits, they
would proceed very quickly to impose
a government upon the Nisayans,
without the consent of the Visayans,
and they would refrain from doing so
with the Moros only under a whole
some fear of being soundly thrashed
if they attempted it. There would be
civil war in these islands almost i'm
mediately after our leaving, and there
would be condition of anarchy that
would be deplora BILE in the extreme.
Warfare between the Moros and
Tagalos would be continuous, and
neverending.
The fact of the matter is, we have
great country out here. Luzon is
about the size of the state ofKentucky
and Mindanao is about the size of the
many other islands, a great number
of which would compare favorably il
area with Connecticut or Rhode
Island.
"The Filipino idea of independence
with protectorate on the part of thu
united States is very beautiful one
1t is on the plan of ''heads l win, tails
you lose" In other words, as pro
tecto OF these islands we would b.
called upon to protect them from al
foreign aggressions and to allow our
selves to be embroiled in all manne
of International complications on ac
count of our proteges. But when ii
comes to any return, l fail to SCI
where it would come in. 1t is yer!
beautiful scheme! Its equivalen
would be found if in a moment o
temporary alteration you were t.
guarantee some firm from fnancia
Insolvency and offer to put up capita
ad lib. while allowing the firm t
pocket all the dividends"