The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-22
Items of Interest from the Capital
City on Current Events OF
Political Import.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION BluNOERs
TN. RuIe of Gen. Otis In the Philip
pines . Rank Failures"
Unearthed by New Civil Som"'s-
sion-Congre~s ia BE Whitewnshe"
-Democrats United.
fspeciai correspondence

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in the islands and LETT
everything on peace footing.
His ignorance of the situation may
he hardened from the fact that he con-
Quoted his campaign from the depths
of his armchair in the palace at Manila
His mind appears to be not altogeth-
err easy as TO the quality of the peace
that he left behind. because he adj
mitted. reluctantly. that we could not
spare any OF our 10000 from the is
lands in case Of trouble with China.
because IAN army OF suppression
would be needed in the Philippines Tor
several years TO come.
Gen. Otis was received at the white
house with great cordiality, ana ne
ought TO be, for has he not been the
faithful servant Of the administration |
all these months? Has he not done
what President Mckinley has ordered?
Has he not suppressed any news that
the administration thought disquiet-
inr? Has he not censored the reports
so that il was impossible 20 discover
how many lives were being sacriiced
and how much money was being spent
in this attempt to crush people who
only desire an opportunity TO govern
themselves in their own way"
Indeed. Gen. Otis has been a loyal
servant of n laundering administra-
tion. and the abuse which has some
times been heaped upon Otis should IN
Justice have been melted out 10 his
master in the white house who direct
\nx< fhnt Gen.
| Otis is back. his optimistic statements
| will be used by the republicans as cam
paign material. That they are not
true will not matter TO the republican
leaders. On their side the campaign is
10 be prosecuted with promises for the
| future and evasion and misrepresenta-
ton. in order to conceal anything
which might damage Mchinleys
chances of reelection.
Otis n Rank Failure.
In sharp contrast TO Gen. OTIS SELL
sufficient claim of having put down
the rebellion in the Philippines comes
the wall from the new civil commits
sion which recently landed in the is
lands. Judr. Taft and his colleagues
on the commission are assured by high
army officers that tn: present force III
the islands is utterly inadequate 20
suppress the instruction, that even
in the southern portion OF Luzon the
insurgents are in entire control.
Gen. Otis municipal governments
have been a rank failure. They have
simply been used by the Filipinos as re-
cruiting stations foe the insurgents.
The commission has been in Luzon a
week and up TO this time not single
Filipino has os.ched them with ar
offer of surrender or submission on
any terms.
The commission is simply amazed al
,he conditions Of bribery. corruption
and general rascality which prevai
wherever the Americans have left theil
, trail. The Cuban frauds are nothing
| TO the corruption which has been going
on in the Philippines.
, The Fiipinos have had so bitter al
! experience with Imperialism that the.
: propose 10 hold out al least until afte
the fall elections. If Mckinley is re
, elected. they know they may expect
? condition of scrvitude worse thai
Spain ever dared TO impose. and the.
! will keep up their guerrilla warfar
8 indefinitely. II Bryan is elected the
have some hope of being allowed 7
!, govern themselves and receiving III
/ protection which should be given ther
= by a country which processes respec
J, for the principles of liberty and ind'
pendence on which its own institution
= are founded.
4 The new civil commission is givin
: the people glimpse of the facts. o.
. misrepresents everything, from III
q condition Of tie, Filipnos 10 the cos
u of our war of determination.
q General Corruption.
It The more the Cuban affair is probe
: the more clear 4 becomes that the pc
" tai frauds are only a small part of u
- general corruption which has becon
10 rampant under military control of II
island.
The administration is looking su
l. priscd and grieved and orderf
a prompt investigation and retrenc
'. ment in the postal department. hopir
lie by that rusc to keep the country in !
d. norance Of the frauds in other dire
Of tons.
r If there could be searching inyes
to CATION into the amount OF money d
Of bursed by the military authorities. u
lie Ter the pretcxt Of administering II
In vana an. improving the sanitary co
,e dition. the result would shock the ave
age voter. While the admnistrati'
and its2 hcnchmen pretend TO knc
nothing Of the irregularities in vario
q. directions in Cuba yet informati
- comes from those on the ground I'M
y eating that the postal frauds are
"a mere bagatelle compared 10 what h
- been looted in other directions.
=, President McKinle' Is oft-repeat
~ aphorism about being the instrume
~ ofProvidence is paraphrased by certs
y officials in Cuba 10 read: "Provider
= Is in II, we're in y and there's mon
in IT," Cuba for the past year \
~.ru ~s1od q = pro ~, a In n nj nCo