The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-01-18

Col. Crowder, and Gen. Smith-moder-
ate, kindly, tactful men of the world
Ian ideal body for such negotiation
1t was treated with contempt. We
smiled at intoierable insult and in.
science until the lips of every native
in Manila were curling in ridicule for
the cowardly Americans. We refrain
ed from all violence until their armed
braves crossed the lines in violation OF
agreement. Then our sentry shot the
offender, and he should have been
court-martialed had he failed to
shoot. That shot was the most for
tunate of the war. For Aguinaldo
had planned the attack upon us for
two nights later; our sentry's shot
brought this attack prematurely on
He had arranged for an uprising in
Manila to massacre all Americans, the
plans for which, in Sandico's hand
writing, are in our possession; this
shot made that awful scheme inn
possible. We did not strike until they
attacked US in force. without provo
cation; this left us no alternative but
war or evacuation.
Work Of Commission.
The patience of our peace-loving
president was not even then exhaust
ed. A civil commission was sent to
Manila, composed of distinguished
diplomat and eminent college profess
sors, and also Gen. Otis and Adm.
Dewey. These men exhausted the ex-
pedients of peace, and always were
met with the Malay's rendy evasion,
the Spaniard's habitual delay.
No, senator's, the friendly methods
of peace have been thoroughly tried
only to make peace more difficult.
The Oriental does not understand our
attempt to conciliate. Every effort
of the commission which did it's work
at Manila SO earnestly, and which,
with Americans or Europeans, would
have so brilliantly succeeded, only de-
layed the peace it attempted to
hasten. There is not now. and never
was any possible course but ceaseless
operations IN the field and loyal sup
port of the war at home. The news
that 10000 American soldiers have
crossed the Pacific; that, if necessary,
the American congress will make it
100000 OF 100000 men; that, at any
cost, we will estblish peace and gov
ern the islands, will do more to end
the war than the soldiers themselves.
But the report that we even discuss
the withdrawal of single soldier at
the present time, and that we even
debate the possibility OF not admins
tering government throughout the
archipelago ourselves, will be misun-
derstood and misrepresented, and will
blow into flame once more the fires
ed.
"The Blood of Our soldiers."
Mr.. President. reluctantly and only
from a sense of duty, am l forced to
say that American opposition to the
war has been the chief factor in pro-
longing it. Had Aguinaldo not un-
derstood that in America, even in the
American congress. even here in the
senate, he and his cause were support
ed; had he not known that it was
proclaimed on the stump and in the
press of faction in the United States.
that every shot that his misguided fol-
lowers fired into the breasts of Ameri-
can soldiers was like the volleys fired
by Washington's men against the sol
diers of King George, his insurrection
would have dissolved before it entirely
crystallized. The utterances of Amer
lean. opponents of the war are read
to the ignorant soldiers of Aguin-
aldo, and repeated in exaggerated
form among the common people.
Arms and ammunition were shipped
from Asiatic ports to the Fill
pinos by wretches claiming American
citizenship; and these acts of infamy
were coupled by the Malays with
American assaults on our government
at home. The Filipinos do not under
stand free speech, and therefore our
tolerance of American assaults on the
American president and the American
government, means to them that our
president is in the minority or he
would not permit what appears to
them such reasonable criticism
ernment.
But, senator's, it would be better to
abandon this combined garden and
Gibraltar of the Pacific, and count our
blood and treasure already spent q
profitable loss, than to apply any aca-
demic arrangement of self-government
to these children. They are not ca
pable of self-government. How could
they be? They are not of a self-gov-
erning race. They are Orientals, Ma
lays, instructed by Spaniards in the
latter's worst estate. They know
nothing of practical government ex-
cept as they have witnessed the weak,
corrupt, cruel and capricious rule OF
Spain. What magic will any one em-
ploy to dissolve in their minds and
characters those impressions of gov
ernors and governed which three CEN
turtles of misrule has created?
No Competition with Our Labor.
Example for decades will be neces-
sary to instruct them in American
ideas and methods of administration.
Example, example; always example;
this alone will teach them. As race,
their general ability is poor. Educa-
tors, both men and women, to whom ]
have talked in Cebu and Luzon, were
unanimous in the opinion that in all
sond and useful education they are
as people, dull and stupid. In snowy
things, like carving and painting, OF
embroidery, or music, they have ap.
parent aptitude but even this is su.
perficial and never thorough. They
have facility of speech, too. The three