The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-28

, provinces but here under the vs1ssI noses of the Commission, as q few 1oy4. ago at Malabon. within i've m1Iea o& the city of Manila.
 1t will be well, indeed sif civil Gclv4 ernment shall be found praet1cahle eSo61 strongest insuryent ge1exHl9, C11o1 Malvar, Lukban and Bai&rmtne. o14 still in the field. and still nghtinG a1G1 killing our soldiers. We have j1st uo6 the gallant Lieutenants Springer o15 Lee and the brave and generous CT tain Wilhelm laid to rest. They 18I by the bullets of men who were hStat4 ing just one year ago on the exact Gpo4 where they fell. but yesterday. DoeI this show any great readiness for cix1I. government? It was indeed q weiI~ grounded fear expressed by GenerIX Macarthur when he said that there - danger that the present conditions ~ guerilla warfare and lawiessneSs naa5E become. chronic. They arc a1mo6I chronic now. M
 There is a noticeable growing I'm patience on the part of the commcrci1I world over this long continued at4t1 of war. There is hope in this. for whei1 commerce growls the ear of autheritS will attend. Let interrupted busines1 and commerce demand 1t. ana meas>t' ures adequate to the needs of the hcCA will ultimately have to be taken 70 cniI this nine-lived hard-dying resfstane0 to the United States. If we could have but seen year ago that 1t woula huvo< been both more human and effective and less costly to use both hasids ana throttle insurrection instead of codd1ium and wheedling the insurgents, this waH< would have ended then in trtumphan17 peace and perfect submission and ac< ceptance of the authority of the Irnite6 States. But unfortunately we did not Wheedling, persuasion, amnesty p1oc~s lamations oft repeated and oet extend-> ed, have not yet ended it. pAxiencG has ceased to be a virtue and tt 6eemn that 1t ought at last to be getktnG tim0 to cease scoddling, and making benevo>- lent promises to unwilling ins1rgenfn who Jeer us in return. ana set t0 wor1r . to, crush them pitilessly with the p0yf@t CT and right that is ours.
 'The commissary scandal is c8ilau61< ing early. It was to be expecfSa. f6xs never was scandal 50 padde6 wltk vain 'imaginings and empty sexls&tfunn. The Commissary Department Itself in-s stituted and pressed the ipveskik Ationn. Up to date. three officers, sxgne foux or five commissary sergeants ana four or five civilians (merchants3, soma twelve or fourteen persons in alL have
 
 tary commissions. Two of tho cofxz-{ missary sergcants were acauitt&& Th& other twelve persons have been con- victed of thefts Of commissarse8 to tho total money value ( of about <welxo hundred dollars. Think Of 1t! Eshar1feo of corrupt dealina and sex akAaI1nr amounting to from seven h1ndreX thousand dollars to two milton had been made and published to fi1& utter>-s most parts of the earth. The nation shuddered. Then with all the extra- ordinary. despotic power and arbttra- ry. inquisitorial procedure of martial law. every intimation. every cue. eHery whisper of a charge no matter n0v61 indirectly and irresponsibly made. hasf been taken up. investigated and spros-j ecuted to the bottom with a stern dissr regard of rank and persons that woulhi please the Lord himself, and with aS' tranl1ling under feet of personal figh4n. that would not afasss one moment havex been tolerated in America. The wlaoIos. grist has been ground. Result. as.. dozen convictions of stealing to tho total value of Ahout twelve hundred dollars: total cost of the prosecutionsss. probably twelve thousand dollars. Cord rupt deals and gigantic steals werat' charged; pilfering has been provenss