Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-05-30
GENERAL GRANT SURE OF PEACE
Reaches Chicago and Asserts FiIipinos
Want American Rule.


people are already bubbling over with
American patriotism. They have
more of 1t than they can hold lust a.
present They show it all the time
with exuberant enthusiasm. in my
district. north of Manila. they ceJe.
brated Washington's birthday gener.
ally and when / came away they were
making preparations to celebrate the
4th of July on even more elaborate
! scale"
That Is the comment OF Brigadier
General Frederick Dent Grant. His
remarks are based on two years of
command in one OF the districts of Lu
Zon. which but short time ago was
more hostile to the Americans than
any other.
But do You believe the Filipinos are
sincere?" was asked the general
Il am almost certain of it," he an.
| swered. should say yes. positive
ly. There is every indication that
they respect the Americans, believe
American rule is To their advantage.
and will some day he good 'Ameri
cans'-if may use that term for peo-
pie who live so far away-them.
selves" ~
General Grant met his wife here for
the first time since he left her to go
to the front thousands of miles away.
and will remain three days or perhaps
more with her here, visiting his rela-
tives.
The fact of the matter is" said
General Grant, that the Filplnos
now are acting very much like chill
dren who are SO anxious to be good
that they can't keep quiet They
know they have been bad. and thoy
are glad they are not going to get
punished more. :s'aey want to so to
Sunday school every day In the weok.
SO TO speak, and they laugh as they
go. 1t is always interesting and
sometimes pathetic, to watch their
efforts"
The district which General Grant
controlled is the fifth military dis
trict, and includes the provinces of
Pampanga Bulacan, and Bataan Ba-
taan is on the peninsula west Of Ma
Mia bay, and the other TWO provinces
- N''S '''' s''' 'oihphh6h - w
cupied by people of the same race
name as their province. who were
early pacifed. but the natives of the
other two provinces are Tagalogr.
and in Bulacan the hostility remained
longest and bitter. Malolos. once the
capital of Aguinaldo. being in that
province.
Now said the general, "the hos
tility is gone, and the people of the
SO towns in Bulacan are vying with
each other to honor Americans, celc-
brate American holidays, adopt Amer
ican emblems learn English and es-
tablish schools
Just before | left fiesta lasting
three days was given In my honor at
Malolos. Every town In BuIacan had
representative there. and some of
the towns sent half their influential
citizens
There was not a house or hut in
Malolos, | verify believe, which lid
not have an American flag on it.
never saw such a display OF the red.
white and blue any place in America
as | saw there. | never saw city
full of Americans as anxious to dis
play their patriotic feelings as those
people were.
Many of the natives had costly
flags, but of course many of them
made flags of their own. The Taga-
log. whose entire wealth in the way
of clothes consists Of n single pair
of pants containing about 3 cents
worth of cloth. had to get along with
strips of colored paper. which he fas-
tened together and covered with
stars in a marvellous fashion. His in
teutions were all right, however. and
we Americans thought more OF his lit
tie banner than of the rich banGers
OF silk or pine cloth. :"
No" he said; even before Agui
naldo was captured the war was over
and the best Malvar can do Is to gath
or a little band of robbers around him
and keep up plundering coulh hard
ly say how big his band will be. An?
man with guns can get fellows to car
ry them behind him there. but IN nix
the majority of the Filipinos Will b,
as anxious as the Americans ere to
have such practices ended.
General Grant will return to the
Philippines as soon as his leave of alb
sence has expired. He has at pres
ent only month to spend in the
country. but he hopes TO be granted
two months longer. From C~icago
he will go to Washington to Walt his
mother. and from there he and lis
wire will go to West Point to visit
his son, who Is cadet
After that little personal business
and the pleasure of his family viii
dictate how he shall MI his time