Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-11-19
MEANING OF IMPERIALISM.
R1ahless Rule by Military Power
Worse Than WcyIerism or
Kitchenerism

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 woItl-
en1or children. They have inflicted no
fortunes, nor have they outraged wives
and daughters, and yet the edfct has
gone forth that they are to be ruthless.
~ killed.
Worse than WeyIerism, worse than
KitcheneriSm. is to be the new policy in
the Philippines as result Of the re-
cent disaster to the invading troops in
Samar, says the johnson Democrat.
These things must stop" said the
strenuous president, with snap of his
militant jaws. And forthwith he or
dered Gen. Chaffee at Manila to "Qse all
adequate measures to suppress'the in
surgents In Samar and all other prov
inees 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.t From one press dispatch we
learn what the programme is likely to.
be.
Gen. Corbin, in discussing the Balan-
giga affair, said the Fiipinos 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 uttsrances
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 uprfs-
ings were followed by swift and ter
rihle 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.
livery male native within miles OF
the scene Of the attack should be Killed
ruthlessly," explained an officer just
returning from the Philippines, land
their homes destroyed"
Although the American public is
a. not aware of it." he added, Somewhat
similar methods have been employed in
several of the new much-heralded paci-
fed distriets.''
This is a pleasant programme. 1t ac-
cords well with our benevolent profess
sions. And it ought to appeal power
fully to those lynrhing ministers and
mobdnspiring pulpit patriots, who
have lately Seen so much in evidence.
Certainly +eatr SPIRITS shpph Else in se-
eponse torso fine prospect as that sTg-
gestsd by the "df1ce, Just retained
dfon the Philippines"
Yet what have these Filipinos done?
In the first place, they fell upon a
company of soldiers, killed them in a
desperate fight in which they lost 140
against the American loss of 40 to so
It was a surprise, but not a greater one
than many another Of which the FIJI,
ipinos were themselves the victims. II
was all In the way of war. The Amer
scaps were out hunting for little
brown men whom they intended tt
kill ST they could. It happened the lit
tie brown men saw them first. Blu
their slaughter OF the invading force
Is now accounted savage crime ant
It IS to be punished I'm savage way BY
savngery as bad as the red Indian eyel
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 II
was applied to the 1ndians-where
~every soul in the tribe, down to the
very papooses, was put to the sword. :
And yet the dead president almos'
with his latest breath gave ntteranc'
20 this lofty sentiment. LET us evel
remeuber that our interest is in con
cord, not conflict, and that our rsal
emincnee RESTS in the victories OF
peace, not those of war"
POINTS AND OPINIONS.