The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-20
Some of the Causes in the Late Po-
TO ProIong the Rebellion.
MURDERS IN GRANTS DISTRICT
HE CITES OVER 1900 CASES, IN
CLUDING BURIALS ALIVE.
Gen. Bates Conditions at JolO-
Made Secure I'm the Islands.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.-Brigadier
General Frederick D. Grant, who returned
from Manila on the Sheridan, speaking
of the condition in the Philippines, said:
Everything is settling down and we are
getting at the real work of governing
and teaching the people. Their peculiar
natural character makes them hard sub
jects for the present. You must remember
that they were originally pirates, that
their civilization is of the fourteenth. not
of the nineteenth century, and the ten
dency to brgandage is so strong among
them that it amounts to disease. In
many districts the paying of tribute to rob-
bers is considered the regular thing, no
more out of the way than taxes. Our task
now is to give them good government in
their municipalities; to protect them
against themselves, unless they learn
taste for order, and then withdraw grad
ually from active interference, leaving the
towns, at time, as we see that they
can be trusted but having our troops with
in striking distance for some time after
we leave any district, so as to insure
against a relapse We must expect much
robbery and, brigandage and pillage, and
even murder for long time
ut is surprising to see the results that
we have obtained in getting ideas of law
and order into these people in the few
months of comparative peace. My district
included the provinces of Bulucan, Pam
pango and Bataan, with a population OF
six hundred thousand, all Tagalo provinces
and considered lne most lawless in the
islands. Now there is not robber band
in the whole district, a condition unknown
in the whole history of the Filipino people,
We have in every town of the district a
local government under a local civilian.
We are building roads and teaching the
people,
General Grant expressed the opinion that
resistance of the insurgents was prolonged
by the events in the United States attend
ing the last presidential campaign. Said
ne:
The property holding class in the islands
is com posed of persons who are pretty ig-
norant and who could not quite under
stand the situation. They are naturally
our friends, but were under constant pres
sure to throw their fortunes in with the
insurgent cause. When they heard that
party was coming into power in the
United States which was in favor of with
drawing the troops and giving all the gov
ernment to the insurgents they did not
know what to do. If they stood out
against the insurrection they would be like =.
ly to lose their lives and property as soon
as we turned our backs.
with that kind of people, timid, ignor-
ant, afraid to espouse cause that might
lead to their destruction, and with the most
unscrupulous element in the islands in
charge of the native forces, there was no
use in going ahead. i stopped active oper-
ations after the nomination of Bryan and
tried only to protect my own men. The
cessation of activity had deplorabie re-
suit in the slaughter of innocent people
by the lawless element, partly sanctioned
by the insurgent leaders.
''Some of the figures, which I can vouch
for in the case of my own district, are ap-
palling. In the province of Pampanga they
killed over 1000 people because they would
not swear allegiance TO the insurrection
In one narrow district over 800 people were
buried alive. possibly by Ladrones. but
much more probably for the same cause
One man. named Lorenzo Cainayer, killed
eight men in one day within easy reach
of my quarters. In the cases where the
perpetrators of these outrages could be
proved l acted severely.
After the elections, when the natives
learned that were there to stay the
real end of the insarrection came
The surrender of Lieutenant General Mar
iano Trias had more effect on the Filipino
mind. General Grant thinks, than the man
ifesto issued by Aguinaldo. General Grant
will proceed to the East in few days.