Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-03
PRAISE FOR AGU1NALDo.
MacArthur Says His Conduct Tn Cap
 tivity ExcItes Admiration.

tivity Excites Admiration.
 Washington, Sept 3.-General Mac Arthur. who commanded in the Philip pines, has reported to the war depart ment. relative to conditions in the islands. He says: ."There is no or ganized resistance to the authority of the United States aside from a few bands of guerrillas. The general con- ditions in the islands are excellent. Civil government has been partly in force in the archipelago since July 4 last and it now is in full swing. It was instituted under the most favor able auspices.
 ''The civil government now is being conducted under the most favorable cir cumstanceS. The people are pleased greatly with the new administration. It does not seem possible that any further trouble of a general character can ensue. Everything is running along smoothly and there are no dis agreeable incidents occurring in con- nectfon with the government of the people calculated to arouse dissatis- faction
 ''For the present. so far as oppor- tunities are concerned. conditions in the islands offer all sorts. of chances for all sorts of business and profes- sional men. It is unnecessary to enumerate the resources and capacities of the islands. That is a subject that has been expiated upon- They are, of course. of great volume.
 "Aguinaldo as a parsonage and a character has been quite a surprise to all of. us since his capture. His con- duct while in the custody of the American forces has been qIlite. digni- fled, manly and in every other respect of kind calculated to excite admira- tion. Aguinaldo is a man of consid- erable personality. His dignity soon came to be matter of remark among those with whom he was brought into contact after his capture. and upon be- ing confined he did not offer sign or utter word of resentment on account of his captivity.
 The Americans found him to be a great deal more of a man than they first thought he was. He no doubt has accepted American supremacy as in- evitable. and I believe he now is sat isfied with the manner in which we are conducting the affairs of the archipela- go Of course, when a man is dragged down from his lair in the mountains and taken into the custody of his enc mics he is not in a good humor to con- duct himself with any great degree of equanimity or diplomacy; but Aguinal- do has done so. and as a result he has received a great deal of encomium from his captOrs- He never has made an inquiry of the Americans as to what disposition they intended making of his case What disposition finally will be made of him is hard to tell"
 The general spoke in hopeful tones concerning the conditions in the phillip pines and the prospects of the future. While he thought it would be prudent to retain 10000 troops in the islands for the present, he thought that with in six months it would be possible to begin to reduce this force by degrees. General Macarthur is particularly in- terested in the educational problem and looks to the schools to make good citizens Of the Fflipinos He says that. regardless of their political feelings, nearly all the Filipfnos are anxious to learn English, and the children are re- markably apt pupils He also is i'm pressed with the importance of direct cable communication between Manila and San Francisco.