El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-13
GENERAL WHEELER
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the bands and feet of their prisoners
cut off, so intense is their amin sity.
| But while these tribal conditions
exist, there are many thousands of FL
l1pinos capable of government, and we
should not Judge the whole by part.
Our own state OF North Dakota was ad
mitGed to the union when the Indians
within it's bounds aries were on the war
path, yet we have made a good state OF
| it.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
$50 with the Philippines. There
are enough good men there to inaugur-
| ate and successfully carry through a
system of local self government, and
they can over-awe and influence the
bad element. All that is needed on
our part is a strong supervision of the
affairs of the island.
But we should not attempt to in
terfere in the making of laws there,
nor should we indeed attempt to make
their laws. My experience with the
people in Cuba and China and the
Philippines has shown me that human
nature is much the same the world
over, that there is good in all peoples,
and that the ordinary man, imbued
with reason, knows BITTER what is good
for him than does q man unfamiliar
with the conditions existing.
SIS is on this account that l say that
the matter of local self government
should be left in the hands OF the
FilipinOs themselves, while we exer-
else only general supervision over it
all.
A RICH COUNTRY.
"The islands are wonderfully rich
and fertile-far more so than the cOun-
try l have just come through, and
they are very thickly populated.
There are streets more than forty
miles in length, with unbroken sue
cession of houses on either side. And
the population is increasing. It is not
at all infrequent to see families of
twenty children, and, in my admins
tration of the government of Papiqui,
and other cities, often took occasion
to ascertain the average number o!
children in a family, and never found
an average OF less than eight.
AS TO AGUINALDO.
"Aguinaldo, 1 think, is still on the
island, because, had he left, his ar
rival in some other city would have
been announced. But | think he will
be of little consequence in the affairs
of the island hereafter"
THE GENERALS RESIGNATION.
The resignation of General Wheeler
as ms jOr general of volunteers was
sent the president by mail last Novem-
Der, but has not been accepted until
the arrival Of the general in Washing
ton. Itwss dated Nov. % at place
called Paniqui, on the island of Luzon,
and was not cabled, but came by the
slow process of the mails. Moreover,
it did not go directly to the depsrt
mens, but went to the white house,
where il has beeo repOsing since its ar
rival in Washington. The war de-
partment officials have just learned of
it.
The generals resignation was not &C
cepted promptly by the president, out
Of cOnsideCatl on for that officer
Instead he was ordered to report to the
war department at Washington. His
resignation will be accepted there and
the effect of the action will be TO allow
the officer his mileage and expenses to
The resignation read as
follows:
PANIQUI. Island of Lrzon, the Phil
ippines, Nov. %. 189S.-To the Presi-
dent. Executive Mansion, Washington,
ID. c.: Sir-The insurgent govern
ment is virtually destroyed. Agui- |
nsldo Is fugitive in the northern
provinces: his cabinet and congress are
scattered. The president of the Fill
he says [ think it viii be impossible for
this congress to ever reorgsuiZe. The |
various commands of the insurgent
generals are reduced to mere skeleto s |
and fly before Us so fast that it is al |
moss impossible 10 get within gun
range.
[ therefore respectfully tender my
resignation as al officer in the volun-
teer forces of the United States. Very
JOSEPH WHEELER,
General United States Vol
unteers.
II go to Washington in my official
caps city, added General Wheeler last
night, and shall there report on my
trip TO the Island OF Guam. which L
was especially commissioned to visit
POLITICAL MATTERS.
The general refused to speak on mat |
ters political and said merely that be |
knew so little of the actual political |
situation that he could say nothing |
with authority. He refused also to say
whether or not he would ruu for COVER
nor, oeayiDg that he had announced |
himself, either directly or Indirectly, |
is q candidate.
SHOOK HANDS WITH ALL.
When the train was about to pull |
put, many pressed forward to shake |
hands with the old soldier. Among |
Them was Judge Bryan who served |
under him from Perryvili9 to Cum |
oerland Gap, in the war of the re- |
bellion. and the brother OF Marce.lus /
u Hudson, whom the general remem
bered well.
One gentleman, in shaking hands |
said, II am a southern too, general, but |
| m not so low down as you |