Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04
A TALK WITH BATES
Who Discusses the Filipino as a
Fighter.
THE TAGALOS' TREACHEROUS TRAITS
War in the Philippines CONTESTED
With the Rebellion.

Copyright 1900, by Frank G. Carpentcr)
pecial CORES p0ndence Of The Evening Star

VDpETiEni l5'" ny fIhHh W. tiFln'nIcrD
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
MANILA, June II, 1900.
I have just had a chat with an army Off
Ger who thoroughly understands the Philip
pine Islands and their people. He has trav-
eled the country from north to SOUTH
has been one of the chief participants and
counsellors in the war with the Tagalos
has seen something of the Visayans in the
middle part of the archipelago and has per-
formed the delicate diplomatic service of
making a treaty with more than 100 900
Moros and thereby bringing to the United
States the archipelago of Sulu and the
great Island of Mindanoa without firing a
gun. l refer to Gen. j. c. Bates, soldier
and diplomatist, one of the shrewdest and
most practical observers of our officials in
the Philippines.
l met the general at his headquarters in
Manila, a splendid house belonging to a
rich iusurrecto. The room we sat in was as
big as any in the White House except the
east room 1t had a ceiling twenty feet
high and beautifully frescocd. Fine paint
ings in oil hung upon its walls and great
per glass mirrors half an inch thick
locked at from the four sides of the
room. The floor Of Filipino MAHOGANY,
with boards foot and a half wide and
twenty feet long, and the furniture was
massive and elegant. The house is lighted
pH iht NC e!eGeflc amps, ana the
r y, h 10y iaid upon 'he soiulerS on
The general had just come in from one
81 ms cahpa!shs, Wnere he had been sleep
ana could see ba ras .
He looks remarkably WELL and, notwith-
standing his beard and hair are gray, seems
he was on General Maades star in n,,r I'LL
war
r,
JPN" vs. Our ""erriiins.
In beginning the conversation I referred
to General Bates service durine that war
and asta,, bi,,, bow, 49,; So -, w.,
'N ~ ' -''''A nv" .'i'o al eoiipaie Gu with
lie general replied:
THE fighting We have had here is nothing
in comparison with that of the civil war. We
had more men killed in q si,sI. ha+,1e tbar
- 49,. -, ,.,,
1 tmT,n nav neeL hiiied III lhe "hole OF the
But how about the guerrillas, general?'
sap Il, i, r,;i nahe M3sby, Tor instance. does
w ,me r,,Ip,.o nsnL as ne qua 1890
ie'' IoSpS carried on warfare some
vn llS ,o"s u lneIe peopie, pu!
ou nus ien.eiiipei ne hhe" nov 10 shoot.
nov ao1u' ,ne lagaio as lisnter, gen
makenno', ""' IA" vi al III MS
iii.,heup ~
stances If Their cnr' Nv ,ha Ca,1yi,ti
@ sis; Ii . e IN ise. ~ tiie "a tltEs
800, ~, ~ ioullu ,iie Pe'ple al oiie " 'liei!
Word 70 tba, ,b.t ; - az "p,,o o, Us fht
~, "''it ., tiity lhtehueo 10 lisht US
!. .Co d. ntoe sem nack lhe reply
HoHi'd oe; toiibil'e! &ulere Hiucho com
fight,
"There was a wide road at that noirt
leading into the town, and they evidently
thought our troops would march up 1t and
~ t oe " so,lie Extent at theif mercy. our
fiaide W. S,r-da w. 'ro , ttolio1
them on all sides AT once They were soon
q
bury sixty-four of them. From that time
' We nav NJ IoupIe IN ina, Hicihity:
+in,,aa C ny ~ dHtlS .. me y iilplio, con
o,,iue , General bates. u nave seen numer-
~, ms aus hI! Vi II; IN tilat Same cam
Tea d ~ pm ,. iusheu up 10 an Aiiiericai
49,. On" IN, "'aache'i MN WIN d po!o' az
h taps" TN, tiIe nllcer had reNolVer IN ms
1a,iu' ne "l,iter shnt the fllplno' put thlS
,4 na a slop MN lie ruShed on ana gave
me olhcer cut across the arm before he
- ~,
the same wav and vas cmt IN the ripht
arm so that he could not use his revolver.
He changed it into his left hand and shot
me f1lpho dead
general do ,o,, NV, + l,au So o,,d 49,
efficient soIdiers?'
II do not see why not AS 1t is. they are
badly led Their generals have relays of
n READY 10 carry them away from the
field when the battle goes against them.
h' hei nave not teen drlllen ana tneN
know nothing about firearms. They do not
Know how to shoot and cannot handle their
guns 10 any erect
Should he Treated M Robbers md
bahdits.
no" ABOUT thelr present method OF hght-
ing general?' 1 asked.
"They have already forfeited all right to
be treated as belligerents replted General
Rates "And ura 80 ,,,sttsaa - 49,
VIC 'iouiu NC JA"'iie' III
garding them as outside the pale of civil