The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1900-11-02


an Instance of where they drove the
Mace bebes from their own town at the
point OF the hayonet and then looted
the place: of another instance where
the Tagologs dug up the bones of the
Catholic priests from the churches and
stole the jewelrv which might have
been buried with them. This was an
other instance of the culture and re-
finement of the natives, who are SO ca.
pable of selfgovernment.
Concerning the educational features
in the Philippines he said that accord
ing to the statutes teachers were en-
ployed to conduct the schools and that
there was teacher to ever 5000 people
and he thought there was very little
opportunity for native to secure any
thing of an education in that way. He
talked with The archbishop, the head
of the Catholic church in that country,
who said thatit was against the princi-
plessof the Spaniards to teach anything
for that meant when they got to think
ing for themselves that they would rot
submit to the rule of that country ard
30 it was necessary to keep them IN
ignorance as long as possible.
Passing to the breaking out of the
war he told how it commenced and
which is more or less familier to the
averag- reader. He stated thet by a
cotcerted action of the Tagologs they
pressed close to the American lines
and atten enpted to cross. Not responding
to the ''halt" of the American sentinel
he shot and in one minute afterward
the whole Tagolog line was firing at
our army. He did not believe that SO
concerted au action was the result of
an accident but more of design and
premeditation. After that the colonel
said that the American soldiers lay on
their arms in the trenches until late in
March without doing the least Sighting
and if the Tagologs had the least dis
position to quit fighting they could
have done so in that time. The op-
position claim that the TagQlogs would
have quit if they bad been given the
opportunity. but the colonel's statement
explodes that idea etfectually.
In closing Col. Stover spoke of the
canteen in the army. He denied that
the American army was responsible for
the Introduction of liquor in the Phil
ippines, and refuted the statement of
the prohibitionists that there we're only
six saloons in Manila when the army
landed there and that after a short time
there were over 90 saloons doing bust.
ness in the place. Col. Slower said that
the natives who peddled goods along
the street in every instance had the
native Bono drink and also the Spanish
cerning the canteen he said that il had
beed more of a help than detriment tc
the army for the reason that it did mo-
permit the soldiers to indulge as liber
ally in the purchase of something tt
drink as in saloon beyond the restric
tions of the army. 1t was q saving tt
the boys and he did not think that ther.
) was one boy who went over there ant
came back who was any the worse of
for the associations of the canteen. Ii
the canteen everything was sold for tn
comfort of the soldier in the way O
I. canned goods, literary works, books
magazines, etc. AS result of tn
profits of the canteen the money mad
therein was divided among the variou
com panies in the regiment and was tn
means of bringing many delicacies il t.
the bill of fare that was not furnishe
. by Uncle Sam for his soldiers. He CAV
l the statistics of the army officers VIII
teen in connection with the army an
L nine. ter tbs OF them were strongly i
. favor of keeping it there. 1t prevente
: drunkenness, desertions, and improve
the condition OF the soldiers by keel
q ing eeerything in ths control of tb
: army.
o Col. Stover closed his speech with
/ reference TO the imperialistic questio
g brought out by the opposition, whic
o in his opinion had no teyrors for th
e American people.
The speech was SPLENDID one frol
/ the point of view that it gave an hol
r est recital of the events in that countr
9 with which the people are not parti
+ ularly familiar aud good many wei
81 surprised at the lack OF Intelligent
Il the idea has been held out that the
g were such aa intelligent race, A uur
e bar went forward and congratulate
Y Col. Stover on bis effort OF the eyenin
l.