Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-11
PEACE FOR PANAy
A HOTBED OF INSURRECTIoN Is
ALMOST PACIFIED.
ONLY ROBBER BANDS REFUSE.
And Peaceful Natives Will Hunt Them
Down-Gratifying News of
Progress.

New York. Feb. 11-A special to the
Tribune from Washington. says:
The la"ge island of Panay. of which
l.olo is the chief port. has been one OF
the most veNa;ious hotbeds of insurrec-
ton and resistance to the American re
gime in the whole Philippine archipelago
and the announcement that its pacitica-
ton has now been practically accom-
plished was one of the most gratifying
messages received by the war department
in The last week. The Tribune has just
received from an officer on duty in Pan
ay an interesting letter written just be-
fore Christmas. giving an account of the
achievement. which is one of the absorb
ing topics throughout the Philippines. es-
pecially as the lead of Panay is apt to
be followed in other islands. He says in
Part:
Most of the officers on duty through
cut the fourth district, department. of the
Nisayas. has had tie or no sympathy
with anything reiating to civil govern
ment.
They believed the time was not ripe
was all that the circumstances demanded
or justified. Although this spirit was
thoroughly understood at district head
quarters and fully taken account Of new
erthelsss the district commander Col.
Edmund Rice. twentys sixth infantry. Z.
S. v. insisted on his policy being car
Red out of combining much. as pos
sib,e. the civil and military. Month at
n 10, hin,
possible being done to get the officers in
terest in the civil work and to inform
the natives of their privileges and oppor-
tunities. Time and time again elections
were ordered 10 be held in certain of the
pueb!os, only to get the report no one
here cares to TAX the necessary oath of
allesiance to the United States govern
ment.' But. despite this. many of the
prominent men We're being talked to and
argued With ami being furnished wl.h
honorable and instructive literature and
no opportunity was allowed to pass FOR
accomplishing the desired object.
On October. 50. 1900. the commanding
officer of the Gree of Jaro 1eported: Not
even three residents necessary t. act
as election judges We're obtainabla. /
On Nov. TO- The district commanding /
authority b. given to the inhabitants OF .
the town of Jaro and Moo to take the !
oath of allegiance to the United States. /
be ievins that the time is now ripe for in !
sstin2 that they should come ont openly !
eth for OF against our government"
1t is a matter of comm On knowledge
that the Sc two pueblos exercise a larg5 II !.
not paramount influence upon the 9TH
# !, X. itia,, 4 nd i- iS b.,
this operation must b. far reaching and
beneficial to the carrying out of the gem
eral policy of the administration.
At last Col. Rice's aide Lieut.. CT. f. D.
McGieger, 18th infantry. whom the dis
trrict commander had put in charge of
civil affairs last April, cut the gordian
knot. Through acting counsel before
a military commission in defense of some
newspaper publishers who We're charged |
with publishing sedtious articles he Won |
the friendship and esteem of the most
clever and influential clique of the ISL +
and of Panay. These We're men of I
wealth. education and travel and called +
themselves neutralS. SO far as the |
was concerned After the trial the leu
tenant had kept in touch with them and |
had brought much influence to bear on |
them to make them pro- American" 1t I
is we'll to make it plain what this ''neu-
t"ality,' or apparent apathy meant.
Almost everywhere on the island Off !
GERS and soldiers We're met With Smil- |
ms faces, the profound obcSiances and
the utmost DIFFERENCE But when any 1
the utmost Difference. But when asked
to assist in the esta biishment of peace-
ful conditions under American sovereign I
~, they refused. Their heads had ,
been turned 10y fulsome rhetoric, by
ambitious projects for power and. /
moreover they We're in mortal fear |
of assassination hN Quentin Sails and his +
minions if they wandered one step from
the status. The officers of the 26tl in
fantry had toied lGnremittingly to bring +
about peace and prosperity on the ISL
ard. They had Waged Wars bravely and
we'll, but not relentlesSly and ruthless
L.. They had earnestly tried to build IN
rather than To destroy, yet, despite the
improved conditions, the remarkat bic low +
Ell ing of the death rate, the almost total
eradication of smallpox ana increased
cleanliness, beauty, prosperity and peace