New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ONE PERIL OF BRYANIsM.


From the time that Bryan made his first
speech Of acceptance TO the week of the cleo
tion any war the Filiplnos useless
slaughter. No at all. since they would
never submit and swear allegiance when they
knew that were likely 10 leave the islands
and give over the friendly natives TO destruc-
ton. I myself well. ! think. all the
other commanders Of districts. gave up trying
10 do anything. and kept the troops as quiet as
could This gave the insursent isads~-,. .
milton and supplies. preparing an aggressive
campaign. slaughtering neutrals and friendlies.
This slaughter of innocent people largely the
work Of the most lawless element in the Fiji
pino army, but partly sanctioned by their lead
ers was one of the most deplorabie results Of
the paralysis of our activity.
Some Of the figures which can vouch for in
the case of my own district are appalling. In
the Province Of Pampango they killed a
thousand people because they would not swear
allegiance TO the inSuTreCt0n. In one narrow
district over three hundred people were buried
alive, possibly by ladrones. but much more prob
ably for the same cause One man. Lorenzo
Cainayer. killed eight men in one day within
easy reach Of my quarters. In the cases where
the perpetrators Of those outrages could be
identified ] acted severely The point of this
story of insurPent slaughter is this Every one
or the outrages followed closely on some de-
monstration in favor Of the insurgents cause in
the United States. Those speeches and the agi-
tation referred TO killed all those innocent peo
ole.
1 stopped active operations after the nomina-
ton of Bryan. l stopped all active operations
were ready several days before the news of the
election because kept pretty
we'll posted and knew that the result GER
tainty, and when the final confirmation came
we struck, and struck hard.
When the natives learned at last that we were
there to stay the real end of insurreCtion came
The work of ending It comparatively easy
The insurrection is dead and gone. All that
we are now doing is going around and cleaning
up few Iadrones and picking up guns.
GETTING DOWN TO A PEACEFUL BASIS
Everything is settling down to a peaceful
basis and getting at the real work OF
governing and teaching the people. Their pc
culiar national character makes them hard sub
iects for the present You must remember that
they originally only pirates. that the
civilization is of the fourteenth If not Of the
fifteenth century. and the tendency TO brigandize
is so great among them that il amounts to a
disease In many districts the paying of tribute
to robbers is considered the regular thing. no
more out of the way than taxes Our task now
is TO give them good government in their munich
palities, to protect them against themselves un~
til they acquire taste for order, and then with
draw gradually from active interference. leav-
ing the towns at a time we see that
they be trusted; but we must have our
troops within striking distance for some time
after we leave any district, so as to insure it
against a relapse. We must expect much rob-
berry and brigandage and pillage and even muir
der for a long time.
The war gave an impetus TO that sort of thing
Arms, which were scarce in Spanish times were
very generally distributed. Because of the in
surrection the country was left absolutely with
dustrious driven from their homes and
went to robbing as a means of obtaining live
Ihood. We must expect some of our own
people TO lend assistance, because have
many adventures in the train of the army. But
as far as any real political insurrection, II is
killed as dead as a door mat. 1t was dead even
before Aguinaldo was captured. BY the way.
although I deserve credit for conceiving or
carrying the original enterprise, it was
company of my own Maccabebe scouts who did
the work
It is surprising to see the results have OBJ
tained getting law and order into these people.
in the few months of comparative peace since
the advance following the election. My district
included the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga
and Bataan, with population of six hundred
thousand, all Tagalo provinces and considered
the most lawless in the islands. My work be-
fore the sudden collapse of the insurrect1on was
mainly stamping out the little insurgent strong
holds through the mountains Many of them
had existed for centuries under Spanish rule
and had been given up one by one, but we
doing good work. Now there is not a robher
known in the whole history of Filipino people.
We have in every town of the district local
government under a local civilian governor.
We are building roads and teaching the people
General Grant will proceed East in day or
two as soon as he can straighten out compli-
cation in his baggage. His furlough is only for
thirty days, and he is particularly anxious TO
get 10 West Point in time to see his son gradu-
ate from the Military Academy