The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-11
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officials here in Manila are living on a
scale of luxury suspiciously dispropor-
tionate to their salaries Charges
against native judges of failing to ac-
count for thousands of dollars received
in fines are under investigation.
The present governmental alterna-
tives are the army on one hand and an
archy on the other. General Otis plan
of municipal governments Is being in
augurated in the principal towns OF
central Luzon, and in parts of the
Visayas, but the Filipinos persist in
thinking that the question whether the
United States will retain the Philippines
Is still open and some local leaders ask
that municipal elections be postponed
until after the presidential election.
Many people object to taking the oath
of allegiance to the United States gov
eminent, which is the first qualification
for voting for municipal candidates.
The commissioners also find that the
future status of the church in the Phil
ippines is leading question in the
minds of many, although most of those
who have talked with Judge Taft and
his colleagues draw the inference that
the commissioners are opposed to the
reinstatement of the friars. Archbishop
Chapelle has taken a strong stand in
supporting the requests of the friars to
be established in their old positions.
AS result of last weeks scouting
more than two hundred Filipinos were
killed and one hundred and sixty cap
tured, while 140 rifles with ammunition
and stores, were secured. The Ameri-
can loss was nine killed. including a
captain and lieutenant; two captains
and twenty-one privates wounded, and
one captain taken prisoner by the Fill
pinos.
Manila, May 13th.--"If we We're lighting
an army the work would be comparatively
easy" said General MarArthur in speaking
of the situation which confronted him when
he assumed the Office Of governor general.
The report had come from General Young
that Tihio and Aguinaldo We're gathering a
force in the Benguet mountains where they
had been hunted and scattered five months
before "The military were hoping that
Tinio would form another army because an
army can be located and followed and, if it
will try to make stand, can be defeated
but such good fortune is improbable. For
one reason that the Americans are so dis
posed covering most of the important roads
and passes that it would be impossible for
more than few hundred Fiipinos to at
tempt to assembled without many of them
being discovered, and, he added for an
other reason that the Fiipinos have learned
that they handicap the Americans pro-
granme more effectively by irregular oper
atoms. General Macarthur has to fight
a secret organization. which amounts al
most to government; which exercises
power to some extent and enforces its de-
crees over all Of Luzon and most of the
other islands, which collects taxes here in
Manila and even gives receipts for duties
paid on the cargo and Of native boats pass
Ing up the rivers iii the suburbs. The CON
troll of this underground organization is re-
puted to be in the hands of iunta whose
headquarters are in Manila, but great is
the loyalty or fear which 1t commands that
the authorities have been unable to trace
its roots, and the question whether it is
identical with the famous Katipunan soci-
ETY. Is open one. Many of the elections
of municipal governments held by the
American officers are controlled by the rev
olutlonary organization, which selects the
candidates, and some of these governments
are unquestionably efficient parts of its ma
chinery. Probably the men who are direct
ing the guerilla activity in the towns know
no superior except the general who has au-
1horty in their province although they
may believe that Aguinalod is still the SUI
preme head In fact. as he is In the minds
OF the popuace.
1.-THE, policy of the insnrgent machine is
to repeat the Cuban revolution in the Phil
'ppines, to discourage conquest by so dew
astating the Islands and keeping them in
such u state of war that they will be use
less to the conquerors Nowhere outside
of the garrisoned towns can Americans go
except i'll large armed parties unless the
country for twenty miles south Of Manila
be excepted. The provinces directly south
OF Mania and those north as far us Dagu-
pan are the Quietest of the island, aud there
schools and local governments are in oper-
alton and much money is being expended
IN building roads and other improvements !
The municipal governments prove useful |
under the strict supervision of the Ameri- !
can officers and the towns are cleaner and
better administered than many American ,
villages; but, generally speaking, the native !
officials have no initiative and their eff |
cheney without the paternal vigilance of the
American soldiers would be doubtful
THE theory that the Filipinos outside of
the Tagalo provinces were friendly to Amer |
lean rule has been deeply shaken by recent |
events. All of the northern coast beyond !
DaguDan is in a state of war and there are /
frequent fights with heavy losses to the Fill |
'pinos. All of the southern provinces in t
habited by the Nisayans are also turbulent |
and in the CamarineZ. Neuva CereceS and |
Albay provinces the Americans control only |
the territory within the picket lines Of the |
garrison on the coast towns while these /
garrisons are subject to frequent attacks /
from large insurgent forces With the ex- !
ception of Negros, which being the wealth. I
est STAND Of the Philippines is the most |
friendly to American rule. the Nisayan ISL |
ands show similar conditions There are /
guerilla bands in Negros which are prevent