New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-21
CHARACTER OF FILlPINOS.
DESCRIBED BY SOUTH CAROLINA DEM
oCRATIC CAPTAIN SERVING AT LIPA
-TREACHERoUs. DECEITFUL
AND SAVAGE.

AND SAVAGE.
Columbia S. c., oct 20 (speciaD.-Captain Claude
| E. Sawyer a South Carolina Democrat of the dyed
n-the-wool kind. resigned State office at the out
| break Of the with Spain. and was appointed
| captain In the LIST South Carolina Regiment On
being mustered he was elected State Solicitor
! When the President called for volunteers he re-
signed his office and appointed a captain lie
/ has been in the Philippines for ten months, ana
writes a letter to Senator John L. McLaurin ex-
planning the situation he It He writes from
Lapa. Province of Batangas. Luzon, and says In
part:
I have just Filipino paper, printed in
! Spanish and published in Manila, containing the
London giving some utterances Of Mr.. Bryan in a
speech in Indiana, and reply by "jefes' Chiefs
| the American people are going crazy. notice in
the Democratic platform th9t they make z,-I three
give them "a stable Government; second. to give
against all foreign Powers"
| Can this be correct? Is 1t possible? Then see
his platform, and IT created a great sensation in
Indiana, and the "jefes'' OF the Republican party
| If this be true. what are we fighting for? What
have all these good men, from Lawton down, died
| for? What have we all suffered for? What have
all these millions Of dollars been spent for? Did
around and present them to the treacherous Agui-
naldo. who sold out his people and then refused to
| There is thing sure and certain-it will be a
fiat admission that the United States is defeated;
| statesmen are but children; that when do a
| thing and it meets with strenuous opposition we
will ruin us in the Of the great nations of the
world 1t will be suicidal to take one back step
now. We should rather push forward and claim
more than did at first because these people re-
| fused to accept what We offered them; and then,
after their armies defeated and scattered. re-
fused to follow any semblance of civilized warfare.
put resorted to the practices of savages, disre-
garding white flags hospitals. sick and medical at
tendance, but counting 1t smart to succeed in an
! by of the white flag
NOT CAPABLE OF sELF-GOvERNMENT
/ The people of America have no idea Of the
nature and character Of these people. We cannot
| give to these people stable Government unless
self-government and never can be- They an
inferior race incapable of self-government Their
highest idea of Office is to steal by means OF It,
Taxation to them is a means of enriching the off,
No newspaper reports nor commissioners. II mat
| tiers not however learned they may be- can ever
| the ofhciais. man must 20 out into the coun.
try; go through the mountains and the rice fields,
and the banana and oocoanut plantations, and out
! in the boinas, and mngle with the people and
| study them, before he can know anything about
| them. AT first ne may be favorably impressed ana
think he knows them; then he will begin to doubt,
| and after while he will admit that he does not
| No fublooded Tagalo has any ability. All the
leaders, all the property owners Of any extent ana
all OF the business men of any capacity, are mixed
1 some with Chinese and some with Japanese and
| are nothing but slaves They speak no language
/ but Tagalo, and only reach them through
vile spanish The mixed i people own the land and
the common people living in the Nipa shacks' till
They can sell their children. This will be denied,
out till the debt is paid; but mark you the debt is
| never paid Now, these property owners are Hv-
poor e Slaves are ghng US Because their
tell them to 40 It, and their masters the rich PROP
| they know we will free their slaves. and the rich
| by the change
MODEL FOB THE DEVIL
Here a saS ee s b Is Ted fen OF Rn
think better ye5siQn is that when the Ad ign
model and took a Filipino. and then did His best
Of sentiment They are as devoid of gratitude as
a snake They viii cringe and crawl at your feet
| them kindly and assure them, you do not intend
are afraid of them and never thank you for any
Many houses have but room and dozen
people will I've in it like rats Men women boys
| They squat like Monkeys and can squat all day.
they al, get around and eat with then, fingers
on ton Of the tabe with their feet and SQUAT
! down to eat People. hogs, dogs and goats all live
/ in the same house.
beef down to xiii it. and before killing it they split
the skin from The jaw to the ehes an tbs m Il n
! thus make bag to catch the blood. Then they
and dip it out with coceanut shell.
First they 60 to church and 20 { through all the
| Of heilsh work from picking chickens alive. cut
ting off the feet of live monkeys. sknning animals
alive any other torture that a savage can de-
| wise.
/ Our American people are making themselves fools
! -sckIy sentimental. blind foos-and l may say
| most damnabe fools about the liberty of these
! people! People! Are they people? 1t is a re-
markable thing; the wild monkeys hate them; they
! cannot tame the monkeys. We can tame the ami
! mails and they will night the Filipinos, that we
| have to keep them confined Now. why is that?
Now suppose set up a Filipino government
here and pretend defend it against all nations
| Wby Should we? But If do will be
| al war with every nation in the world having
merce here They will cheat, wrong, defraud steal
| from and imprison foreigners, and these waters
| will be full of pirates in a year
ARCHIPELAGO OF RATTLEsNAKEs
| Protect these people! Why, had just well
set out to protect archipelago of rattlesnakes!
| Can you not that it win never do 10 turn this
! government over these people and then under
! take to protect them against all Powers? 1t would
| be turning our hand against the world