New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-10

splendor than that OF Waterloo the nag that
civilization is irradiating all the Orient If this be
imperialism, its final end will be the empire or
the son of man.
BEAUTY OF THE PHILIPPINE CLIMATE.
Yet fifty years ago this English outpost Of EN-
pre was a smooth and treeless mountain; blazing
philippines are beautiful and rich with the heal d
famed by a thousand winds Even In the hottest
season, under severest conditions found the
Luzon Panay Cebu, Negroes and Sulu have been
in the sun and rain without protection 5T from
to place horseback. on foot or in a boat, rising
a Without ni9 eTr to health e 9sht week
General MacArthur, fighting continuously for
was in excellent health every time l saw him at
der whom have seen ride. order plan and exc
cute all day, and then ride; order, plan and exc
General OTIS. that devoted servant Of the Republic
themselves in all kinds of weather without food or
VOLS dS 81 our f ,a1 fc with III MAJ
Arthur. told that San Fernando is healthy
as the average American town; The European
hard and as many hours a day as those OF New
not be gathered al random in America This
proves that this garden of the seas is not the
described
CURIOUS PEOPLE.
It will be hard for Americans lea who have not
studied them to tn the & THY are
contact with a decadent race. The Filipino is the
Hundred years Of sGperstton in Religion dishon
esty in dealing. disorder in habits of industry, and
cruelty, caprice and corruption in government. 1t
is barely possible that one thousand men in all the
are My o. 6wn bef That IN he Re
e ee not 9 men them w3 2e
and there five million people to be gov
men among them but there are only three con-
handing intellects and haracters-ArelIanQ, Ma
bini and Aguinaldo Areano the Chief Justice
of our Supreme Court, is profound lawyer and
type Of subtiety and the most constructive mind
that race has yet produced Aguinaid9 is clever
ambitious, unscrupuIous and masterful He IS full
confidence of the masses He is natural dictator
His ideas of government are absolute orders i'm
plicit obedience or immediate death He under
stands the character of his countrymen. He is
Malay sylla; not Filipino Washington.
serving the people in all walks OF life in the differ
chants, priests mestizos pure Filipinos and every
variety OF mind. character and opinion from San
tire archipelago to the interior Sulu These con
o9 journeys and h the @ aad WaS Snp nnde ae co
99rs tayora9ie to eptfe and 9nreserye
Of their authors and not prepared and guarded
from my notes of these converse TONS reservng the
names Of the persons interviewed. except that of
after met him, and whose tate I will not risk
dences are here in this book, and viii be gladly
Session any senate II eAe'u'''s
Senator Beverage here read to the Senate ex-
tracts from great number Of interviews with
natives and merchants in each Of the islands. He
continued follows:
THE BURDEN AND THE OPPORTUNITY
Here then, Senators. is the situation: Two years
could Sq, occupy for any purpose Our commerce was
ad r g1dn6g the Orient and geography
mercial empire over the Pacific. And in that ocean
sessions of the Iobe Ioca ae nj seaS ocean pos
in he
eastern seas, within nail of India. shoulder to
than any equal body of land on the entire globe,
ana ana, peoped by race which civilization demands
man little, knows the common people of the Re
who thinks we will not hold it fast and hold it for
ev e Commissioning Just government by simplest
burden and lessen our opportunity they will avail
by applying academic arrangements of Seif-gov-
eminent to crude situation; their failure will
Dec hG mtaG 6 s9a9n past present and pros
ar hand We have been delaVed rst b nv el9 faI
10 comprehend the immensely of acquisition,
and. second, by insufficient force, and third by
treaty Of peace Otis had only 8722 ofcers and men
T Tb e ne had legal Tght to order into battle.
mad expired: and they fought voluntarily and not
do in ignorance Of the real situation We et
b epTea great task with insufficient means we
could coy fairly be begun and I pray may not
the work before 1t is Thoroughly and forever done
That is the gravest mistake we could possibly
Indian would have been Shortened the lives
OF soldiers and settlers saved and the Indians them
elsiye war and any other kind of is criminal
because ineIfective. We acted toward the Indians
as though We feared them loved them hated them
"a mingHng Of foolish sentiment Inaccurate
thought and paralytic purpose. Let US now he in
structed by our own experience.
SPANS COURSE IN THE ISLANDS
r This to- Ssd has been spans in the Philip
ton, pushed to conclusive results and 6ermanen+
| peace; always treating with the rebels while thew
fought them; always cruel and corr1pt when
| spurious peace was arranged. This has been
rection has become Filipino ha hit Never sioce
Magellan landed did Spain put enough troops in the
government in peace At the outbreak of tbe iast
insurrection in August, 1886. Spain had only 100
Spanish soldiers il all the Philippines and 200 Of
these were in Manila. In November Of that year
she had only 10000 men. The generals in command
of these criticised and assailed in Spain II
is characteristic of Spain that the people at home
do not support but critcise their generals in the
| field The Spanish method has always been a
mixed policy of peace and war. a contradiction of
ineffective and peace impossible. This was Campo's
plan. 1t was Blanco's plan. Those who would
| make it our plan will inherit Blanco's fate and
| failure
| THE TRUE MILITARY POLICY.
Mr.. President, that not be our plan This
war Is Ike all other wars 1t needs to be finished
! to make work thorough or even now to aban-
dor it.
A lasting peace can be secured only by over
whelmng forces in ceaseless action until universal
and absolutely final defeat is inflicted the
To halt before every armed force. every guerilla
| band opposing us is dispersed extermina ted, will
| perpetual Instruction. Even then we should not
| treat. To treat at all is to admit that we are
Iusive and fleeing. And a false peace viii betray
| sham truce will curse II is not to serve
the purpose of the hour. it is not to saIve present
/ situation that peace should be established