Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-21
items of Interest from the Capital
City on Current Events Of
Political Import.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION PLUMBERS
The Rule of Gen. Otis I'm the Philip
pines a Rank Failure-COrruptiOn
Unearthed by New Civil Commits
sion-COngress to BE Whitewashed
democrats United.
rspecial Correspondence.l


everything on peace footing.
His ignorance of the situation may
be pardoned 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-
er 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 ''an army of suppression
would be needed in the Philippines for
several years to come.
Gen. Otis was received at the white
house with great cordiality, and he
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-
ing? Has he not censored the reports
so that it was impossible to discover
how many lives were being sacrificed
and how much money was being spent
in this attempt to crush a people who
only desire an opportunity to govern
themselves in their own way?
Indeed, Gen. Otis has been a loyal
servant of a laundering administra-
ton, and the abuse which has some
times been heaped upon Otis should in
justice have been melted out to his
master in the white house who direct
ed the Philippine war. Now that 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
to be prosecuted with promises for the
future and evasion and misrepresenta-
ton, III order to conceal anything
which might damage McKinley's
chances of reelection.
Otis a Rank Failure.
In sharp contrast to GEES. Otis self
sufficient claim of having put down
the rebellion in the Philippines comes
the wall from the new civil commits
sion whic2 recently landed in the is
lands. Judge Taft and his colleagues
on the commission are assured by high
army officers that the present force in
the isle ads is utterly inadequate to
suppress. the Instruction; that even
in the southern portion of -Luzon the
insurgtIts are in entire control.
Gen. Otis municipal governments
have been rank failure. They have
simply oeen used by the Filipinos as re-
cruiti1 & stations for the insurgents.
The commission has been in Luzon a
week and up to this time not a single
Filipino has approached them with an
offer of surrender or submission on
any germs.
The commission is simply amazed at
the conditions of bribery. corruption
and general rascality which prevail
wherever the Americans have left their
to the corruption which has been going
on in the Philippines.
The Filipinos have had so bitter an
experience with Imperialism that they
propose to hold out at least until after
the fall elections. If Mckinley is re-
elected, they know they may expect
condition of servitude worse than
Spain ever dared to impose, and they
will keep up their guerrilla warfare
indefinitely. If Bryan is elected they
have some hope of being allowed to
govern themselves and receiving the
protection which should be. given them
by a country which processes respect
for the principles of liberty and indie
pendence on which its own institutions
are founded.
The new civil commission is giving
the people glimpse of the facts Otis
misrepresents everything, from the
condition of the Filipinos to the cost
of our war of determination
General Corruption.
The more the Cuban affair; !. -x-Sca
the more clear it becomes that the pos
tai frauds are only a small part of the
general corruption which has become
rampant under military control of the
island.
The administration is looking sur
prised and grfeved and ordering
prompt investigation and retrench-
ment in the postal department, hoping
by that ruse to keep the country in ig-
norance of the frauds in other direc-
tions.
If there could be a searching investi-
cation into the amount of money dis
bursed by the military authorities, I'M
der the pretext of administering Ha.
vana and improving the sanitary con-
dition, the result would shock the aver
age voter. While the administration
and its2 henchmen pretend to know
nothing of the Irregularities in various
in Cuba yet information
comes from those on the ground indi
eating that the postal frauds are a
mere bagatelle compared TO what has
been looted in other directions.
President McKinley's oft-repeated
a phi orism about being the instrument
of Providence is paraphrased by certain
officials in Cuba to read: providence
is in it, we're in it and there's money
in it, Cuba for the past year has
been regarded as promising place for
administration favorites who desired
to reap an abundant harvest.
In the face of all this the republican
platform will congratulate President
upon his able and wise adj
and point out to the
Cubans how lucky they are to be re-
leased from Spanish oppression.
Will Whitewash Congress.
With congress out of the way the re-
oublicans are busily preparing for
their national convention and for the |
platform which shall carefully gloss |
over the shortcomings of the recent |
congress.
1t will deal largely in promises. A |
number Of measures like the antitrust |
bill, the Nicaragua canal osn and the |