The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
NOT FIT 70 Be FREE.
Filipinos are Treacherous and Barbar-
Gus and Anarchy Would Fol-
low Our Withdrawal


The REGISTER's Manila cores
pondent sends the following letter
which is of interest in view of the
present contention by the opposition
that the dear, downtrodden Filipnos
should be given their immediate free
dom and allowed to work out their
own destiny" He writes;
Manila, p. l., June ., 1900.
The local press is lurid with murder
and arson, rape and robbery. Since
Otis sailed for his home beyond the
seas, the brown men, half devils and
half fools, have been plotting and
scheming to burn the city, and murder
every American and European in the
place. The military authorities have
t ken every precaution possible to
prevent disaster, still there are many
hundreds here who feel anything but
safe, for, with all the watchful, wide
awake care exercised by the secret
service, the military and civil police.
new and startling plots are unearthed
daily. Within the last week or so,
hundreds of native servants have left
their American and European employ
ers. and not few have since been dis
covered plotting with notorious out
laws who would have long since
stretched hemp under Spanish regime,
to burn and loot Manila. They pro-.
pose to give no quarter to the pale
face, to outrage American woman
hood, to cut and mutilate. burn. tor
ture and kill until their fendish
natures are thoroughly satisfied.
Then when Macarthur has been
driven into the bay and drowned like
rat, Aguinaldo will be called in to
reign without trouble. Truly the
average Filipino is as crazy as a
loon. The proverbial last year. ;
bird 's-nest has just as much good,
sound, common sense as the average
Tagalog can boast, and is just as tit
to exercise the functions of govern
ment. y Filipino cannot be true to
himself, hence he is true to no one.
Humane, generous treatment of these
half-civilized brown men has only
served to make them more than ever
thirsty for loot and blood.
When the Americans first came
here, they found the natives of this
city pretty we'll subdued and extremely
courteous and obliging. Servants
were well paid with from five to seven
dollars a month, so long as they were
treated as an inferior people; but
when the Americans, in their open
handed way, began to raise their
wages and treat them with all kinds of
favors and courtesies, they began to
change so that today they are the
most insolent and exasperating devils
this side of the grave.
There are happily some exceptions
to this general rule; some Filipinos
with brains and hearts who, believing
in the promises of our flag or not, are
honorable men and worthy friends or
opponents, as the case may be. But
faithlessness and treachery are the
chief characteristics of the great
hordes who, though crying for indie
pendence, want nothing but blood and
loot, torture and pillage, rape and
arson. They want to gorge them
selves on the pains and suiferings and
broken hearts of the refined and civ
ilized, the men and women who have
come here to bear their portion of the
white mans burden.
FILIPINoS INDEPENDENT.
1t is unfair and absolutely wrong
for our 'agin the government" friends
at home to hoot and howl and pirate
of criminal aggression while consid-
ering this great question of the
Pacific. To claim that the great
hordes of semi-civilized cut-throats
and robbers who claim these islands
as an everlasting inheritance, are
entitled to independence and that they
should be left to work out their own
earthly salvation to suit themselves,
is wrong and exhibits an ignorance OF
true conditions, that, to say the least,
is painful. Filipinos cannot be free
for generations to come. They are
slaves to traditions, ignorance and
passions that form huge barrier
between them and self-government.
They cannot be true to any leader.
Aguinaldo would not last a year.
Revolution upon revolution would
sweep and lay desolate these islands,
and the little civilization Spain thrust
upon them would soon be entirely for
gotten and obliterated. This, OF
course, providing they were left to
Il e nselves. But this cannot be for
many generations. There are too
many outside interests at stake.