Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-14

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"A West yirginian among those In
fected.
TAYABAs, P. /.
June IS, 1900.
Three weeks mail arrived yester-
day evening. The band boys from
w. Va. and Pa. read the New
DoauNIoNs till they will no longer
hold together. We had to sleep with
our clothing on last night as few
hundred insurgents were on their way
here to work US into phosphate, ac-
cording TO their say. The two COM
panies of this regiment located at
Lukbon have orders to come down here
double quick any night the wires may
be cut. The first thing the insurgents
do is to cut the wires. When it was
cut last night it did not take the
Lukbon companies long to get here
and the insurgents seeing them post
poned their visit We have two
companies here and detachment Of
artillery with maxim gun. In one
| fight this gun killed eighteen insur-
gents with one shot and at another
time thirty-six with three shots.
Once shot was fred into bamboo
thicket crowded with insurgents and
next day thirty fresh graves were
counted.
The 9th, 18th and 18th regiments
will go TO China. Every regiment
over here is making pull to get at
the pigtails provided any fighting is
to be done. Soldiers would rather
fight than do garrison duty. The vol
unteer army wants to make name
for itself while over here. for not more
than one per cent of the men will re-
enlist, They are dissatisfied because
congress has taken away their travel
pay. For my part | believe it TO be
an oversight that congress will gladly
make right when it meets next winter.
That guardian angel | mentioned
in my last letter is off on vacation.
Two OF the band boys have smallpox
and were isolated to-day, and we
think another has it. One Of those
removed to-day was l.. M. Hunter OF
Berkeley Springs, w. Va. He is very
young but bless the boy he has enough
sand for two men. When he was be-
ing taken away he laughed and said,
ssWell / got through the fever all
right and now If / get well of this
smallpox they won't have any disease
in West Va. that can knock me out
| when get homer
Aggie, as you no doubt know has
bobbed up serenely with seven thou
hAl~ IND IA A rof In
the adjoining province of Lagura has
| fifteen hundred men with him. An
insurgent captain was let out Of the
guard house here on parole recently
and the last heard of him he had a
company of 100 insurgents with him
and there are bands Of insurgents all
over the island. A few weeks ago we
| haps it is. But If this is peace it is
the warmest kind of peace haye ever
| heard of.
| Schools are being started in all the
towns. Every town has its school
house But the Spaniards only al
lowed the natives TO be taught Tag
alo. The percentage of Filipinos who
can read and write is larger than
among the people of Massachusetts,
but they have only been allowed to
read the lives of the saints. They
are bright people but Spain had to
keep them as ignorant as possible SO
they could be bled easily. The Flip
mos had written language of their
own when first discovered by the
white man.
When they learn to read English
they viii be free indeed. They will
have the world before them then, and
it will no longer require an army to
keep them in order. There is not a
school building in w. Va. from the
magnificent University to the little
white school house in the mountain
shaken by the winter winds and kiss
ed by the summer sun, but what is
greater in its influence than any
army And thanks to the free school
the United States will never have any
need for that great curse large
standing army. The American citi-
zen can be made into as good a soldier
as the world ever knew in thirty days.
/ refer of course TO the man behind
the gun.
Yours Truly,