Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-11-01
MEANING OF nmpBRIALIsM.
euthless Rule by Military Pexer
wsfss Than Wsylerisn or
kiteheneriszns

kiteheaerisn.s
Imperialism is still to- be kept to the
front as an issue and the unhappy FIJI
ipinos are to feel.the full burden of it,
Imperialism means the ruthless rule
of the military, WITHOUT the.r rules of
civilized warfare, and yet the Filipinos
are not aavages; they have murdered
no prisoners, they have slain no Wom-
en- or children. They have inflicted no
tertares, nor have they outraged wives
and daughters. and yet the edict has
gone forth that they are to be ruthless
" killed. -
Worse than Weylerism, worse than
aKitchenerism, is to be the new policy in
the Philippines as 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's'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-
NINA ton. From one press dispatch we
learn what the programme is likely to
be.
Gen. bin, 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 ,ho -,
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.
twill be recalled that Indian upris-
ingss 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 to
the sword, remains to this day an un-
written page of American history
Something akin to this terrible vista
ton is believed to await the revolving
inha bitants of Samar.
every male native within miles of
the scene of the attack should be killed
ruthlessly," explained an officer just
returning from the Philippines, ..'and
their homes destroyed"
Although the American public is
not aware of it," he added, Somewhat
similar methods have been employed in
several of the new much-heralded paci-
fed DISTRICTS"
This is pleasant programme. It &C
cords we'll with cur benevolent profess
sioDs. And it ought to appeal power
fully to- those lynching ministers and
mob-inspiring pulpit patriots, who
have lately been so much in evidence.
Certainly their spirits. should risein re-
spouse to so fine prospect that sug-
gested by the "officer just returned
from the Philippines
Yet what have these Fi1ipinos done?
In the first place, they fell upon a
company of soldiers, killed them in. a
desperate fight in which they lost 40
against the American loss of 40 to so.
It was surprise, but not a greater one
than many another. of which the Fill
ipinos were themselves the victims. It
was all in the way of war. The Amer
leans were out hunting for. little
brown men whom they intended to
kill if they could. It happened the lit
tie brown men saw them first. But
their slaughter of the invading force
is now accounted savage crime and
it is to be punished in a savage way by
savagery as bad a the. red. Indian ever
conceived.
Adequate measures" are ordered
from the white house. And those
around the capital and in touch with
army purposes understand that this
phrase means, what it meant when it
as -
"every soul in the tribe, down to the
very papooses, was put to the sword"
And yet the dead president almost
with his latest breath gave utterance
to this lofty sentiment: "Let us ever
RENE mber that our interest is in con-
cord, not conflict, and that our real
eminence rests in the victories of
peace, not those of war"