The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-20
GIN. GRANT HONE AGAIN
ARRIVED AT SAN FRANCISCO FROM
MANILA YESTERDAY ON THE
SHERIDAN
HE TALKS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Conditions Are Rapidly ImprOY.
ing and Results Are
Surpris-
ing

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1s.-Brig Cen
Frederick D. Grant, who returned from
manila on the Sheridan, speaking of the
condltlon in the Philippines, said:
everything is settling down and we
are getting at the real work of govern
ing and teaching the people. Their ne
cu1ar national character makes them
nara subjects for the present. You must
remember that they were originally pi-
rates; that their civilization is of the
fourteenth, not of the fifteenth century.
and the tendency to brigandage is so
bright among them that it amounts 10
disease. In many districts the paying
OF tribute to robbers is considered the
regular tnlng, no more out of the way
lhan taxes. Our task now is to give
them good government in their NUM- ipal-
ties; to protect them against them
selves, until they learn a taste for or
DER and then withdraw gradually from
active interference, leaving the towns
one at time as we see that thew can
be trusted, but having our troops within
striking distance for some time after we
leave any district, so as to insure against
relapse. We must expect much rob-
berry and brigandage and pillage and
even murder for long time.
1t is surprising to see the results that
we have obtained in getting law and
order into these people in the few
months of comparative peace. My dis
trict included the. provinces Of Bulucan,
Pampango and Bataan, with population
Of 100000, all Tagalo provinces, and con-
sidered the most laWless in the islands.
Now there is not a robber band in the
whole district, a condition unknown in
the whole history of the Filipino people.
We have in every town of the district
local government under a local CIV
ilian
1--WE are building roads and teaching
the people,"
Gen. Grant expressed the opinion that
resistance of the insurgents was pro-
longed by the events in the United States.
attending the last presidential cam
paign.
CAUSE OF RESISTANCE.
Said he:
1.-The property holding class in the ISL
ands is composed of persons who are
pretty ignorant and who could not UNDER
stand the situation. They are naturally
our friends, but were under constant
pressure to throw their fortunes in with
the insurgent cause. When they
heard that a party was coming
into power in the United States
which was in favor of withdraw.
ing the troops and giving up the govern
ment to the insurgents they did not know
what to do. If they stood against the
instruction they would be likely to lose
their lives and property as soon as we
turned our backs.
with that kind OF people, timid, ig-
norant, afraid to espouse a cause that
might lead to their destruction and with
the most unscrupulous element in the ISL
ands in charge of the native forces, there
was no use in going ahead l stopped
active operations after the nomination
of Bryan and tried only to protect my
own men.
1.-THE cessation OF activities had de-
plorable result-the slaughter OF limo
cent people by the lawless element, part
ly sanctioned by the insurgent leaders.
"Some of the figures, which I can
vouch for in the case of my own district,
are appalling. In the province of Pam
panga they killed over 1000 people be-
cause they would not swear allegiance
to the instruction. In one narrow dis
trict over 800 people were buried alive,
possibly by Ladrones but much more
probably for the same cause. One man,
Lorenzo Cainayer, killed eight men in
one day within easy reach of my quar-
tiers. In the cases where the perpetra-
tors of these outrages could be proved
I acted severely.
after the election when the natives
learned that we were there to stay, the
real end of the instruction came"
The surrender of Lieut.. Gen. Mariana
Trias had more effect on the Philippine
mind, Gen. Grant thinks. than the mani
festo issued by Aguinaldo. Gen. Grant
will proceed East In a day or two.