Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-20

much more probably for the same
cause One man. Lorenzo Gainayer,
killed eight men in one day within easy
reach of my quarters. In the cases
where the perpetrators of these out
RACES could be Identified acted Sc
verely.
The point of this story Of insurgent
slaughter is this: Every one of those
outrages followed closely on some dem
onstration in favor of the insurgent
cause in the United States. Those
speeches and the agitation referred to
killed all those innocent people.
With that kind of people, ignorant,
afraid to espouse a cause that might
lead to their destruction, with that sort
of talk going on in the United States,
and With the most INSCRIPTIONS ele-
ment in the islands in charge of the ma
tive forces, there was no use going
ahead
Il stopped active operations after the
nomination of Bryan. stopped all ac-
tive operations and tried only To pro-
tect my own men. We were ready sew
eral days before the news of the cleo
ton came, because we We're kept pretty
Well posted and knew that the result
Was Il certainty, and when the final
continuation came we struck and struck
hard When the natives learned AT last
that we Were there TO stay, the real end
Of the insurrection came
The work of ending it was corpara-
lively easy. The insurrectionists have
gone All that we are now doing IS go-
ing around and eeaning up a few La
drones and picking up guns
a,-,-t u, c.,ii.t1 Snu.v n
peaceful basis and we are getting al the
real work of governing and teaching the
people Their peculiar national cnarac-
ter makes them hard subjects for the
present You must remember that they
civilization is of the fourteenth. and not
'dency to hrigandage is SO great among
them that is amounts 10 a disease In
many districts the paying of tribute 10
robbers is considered the regular thing
no More out OF the way than taxes.
our task now is 10 give them good
government. To protect them against
themselves until they acquire a taste
for order, and then 10 withdraw gradu-
ally from active interference, leaving
them tlle towns. one al time. as We see
that they can be trusted. hut we must
have our troops Within striking dis
tance for some time after we leave any
district, so as to insure II against a re-
lapse
W. must expect much robbery and
brisandage. and pilage and even muir
der for a long time. The war gave an
impetus 10 that sort of thing. Arms
which Were scarce in spanish times
We're generally distributed because Of
tae nsureetion, the country was left
absolutely without government. ard
driven from their homes and went to
rebhing as a means u maintaining q
livelihood.
As for the commercial future of the
Islands. l can only say Al present that
they,aFe productive and that cur COM
mere going both ways must Of neees-
ss,y Increase. Especially is this true Of
manufactured goods coming from the
Tinted States for the natives are GET
ting a rage for that sort Of thing. l
have been amused 70 notice THAT al the
woman in my district are taking to
wearing stockings, aud in the Corpus
girl Wore a chip hat, small slip of a
dress, and Shoes
General Grant Will proceed east in a
dayor two. as soon as he can straighten
otit complication in his baggage. HIS
furloush is only for thirty days, and he
Is particularly ANXIOUS u get To West
POINT in tine 10 see his son graduate
from the military academy.