The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-02
MEANING OF IMPERIALISM.
Rule by Military rover
Worse Than Weylerism or
Kitchenerism.

kitchenerlsIh
Imperialism is still to be kept to the
front as an issue and the unhappy Fill
ipinos are to feel the full burden OF it.
Imperialism means the ruthless rule
of the military, without the rules of
civilized warfare, and yet the Filipinos
are not savages; they have murdered
no prisoners, they have. slain no wom-
en- or children. They have inflicted no
t%ortures, nor have they outraged wives
and daughters, and yet the edict has
gone forth that they are to be ruthless
ly killed.
Worse than Weylerism, worse than
Kitchenerism, is to be the new policy in
the Philippines as a result of the re-
cent disaster to the invading troopsin
Samar, says the johnson Democrat.
"These things must STOP" said the
| strenuous president, with a snap of his
militant jaws. And forthwith he or
dered Gen. Chaffee at Manila to "use all
adequate measures to suppress the in
surgents in Samar and all other prov
inces where they become active"
What these adequate measures" are
to be is limited at strongly in Washing
ton dispatches. They mean death to
| the Filininos-a war Of literal eXter-
mination. From one press dispatch we
learn what the programme is likely to
be.
Gen. Corbin, in discussing the Balan-
| giga affair, said the Filipinos were
much like the American Indians and
that their complete subsection would
be delayed for an indefinite period of
time. Those who are given to reading
between the lines of official utterances
see in this statement evidences that
the natives are to be treated by the
American forces just as were the red
skins here.
1t will be recalled that Indian upris'
ings were followed by swift and ter
rible punishment and one of Clusters
exploits wherein every soul of the tribe
down to the very papooses, was put tc
the sword, remains to this day an I'M
written page of American history
Something akin to this terrible vista
ton is believed to await the revolving
inhabitants of Samar.
Every male native within miles o.
the scene of the attack should be killed
ruthlessly," explained an officer JUS
returning from the Philippines, "ant
their homes destroyed"
although the American public i.
not aware of it," he added, "somewha'
similar methods have been employed il
several of the new much-heralded paci
fled districts"
This is a pleasant programme. 1t ac
cords well with our benevolent profes
sions. And it ought to appeal power
fully to those lynching ministers an
mob-inspiring pulpit patriots, VIII,
have lately been so much in evidence
Certainly their spirits should rise in re
Spouse to so fine a prospect as that sug
gested by the %"oflicer just returne,
from the Philippines"
Yet what have these Filipinos done
In the first place, they fell upon
company Of soldiers, killed them in
desperate fight in which they lost IA
against the American loss of 40 to 81
1t was a surprise, but not a greater on
than many another of which the FL
ipinos were themselves the victims. !
was all in the way of war. The Amer
leans were out hunting for littl
brown men whom they intended t
kill if they could. 1t happened the lii
tie brown men saw them first. Blu
their slaughter of the invading fore
is now accounted a savage crime an
it is to be punished in a savage way b
savagery as bad as the red Indian eve
conceived.
adequate measures" are ordere
from the white house. And thos
around the capital and in touch wit
army purposes understand that thi
phrase means, what it meant when
was applied to the 1ndians-wher
"every soul in the tribe, down to tn
very papooses, was put to the sword
And yet the dead president almo,
with his latest breath gave utteraro
to this lofty sentiment: "Let us ev,
remember that our interest is in col
cord, not conflict, and that our re,
eminence rests in the victories {
peace, not those of war"