The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-01-04
-FOUR YEARS MORE
Of Fighting In the Philippines For
Uncle Sans Soldiers.
INSURGENTS ARE VERY ACTIVE
General Uprising Is Expected..-
The Troops Are Getting Full
Dinner PAIL"

SHffSs U oNe
John E. Murphy, q former YounGs-
town boy who is now in Pittsburg, has
received an interesting letter from
soldier in the Philippines. The writer
of the epistle is well known in national
guard circles in Canton. He desires that
his name should not be published for
reasons that are apparent He writes:
Panique, Luzon. 2. l., Province of Tar
lac, Nov Q, 1900.
In the land of the willy insurrecto.
Dear friend Johnny:-I received your
welcome letter and was much pleased
TO hear from you. l am in pretty fair
health and l hope these few lines will
find you enjoying the best of health. |
am glad to hear you are prosperous al
your new stand and l wish you success.
Well, John, we are still in Panique
where we have been stationed for about
nine months. The duty is very hard,
we hardly get night in. We have 10
patrol the railroad night and day, four
men patrol each way every morning
and seven men and a corporal each way
at night. The distance is about three
miles. We meet the patrol from other
towns and in his way the road is pa
trolled from end to end six miles. b.
tween 8 and IL; makes a fellow feel like
sleeping Grd then the next morning go
on qua. "a hours, come off guard the
followicg morning and that night so on
out post besides the other duties one
hour G-.ll each day under the boiling
sun; but me way of the transgressor is
hard.
The ,.surgents are very active all
over the island; they are recruiting UP
and look for a general uprising all over
the Island Much depends on the COM
ing presidential election; If Mckinley is
elected l look for four more years Of
fighting instead of the full dinner
pail" The troops are now getting the
"full dinner pail" They are forgetting
that they have troops in the Philippines.
All we get Is rice, apples, peaches and
prunes. The brand is Castle and the
quality extra. They are evaporated. !
am what they would tell you sometimes
in the states full of prunes," also APP
pies and peaches. The soldiers say the
full dinner pall' is frost. l never
seen such Grub sc they are now feeding
us. / guess If there wasn't a trust on
the evaporated fruits we wouldn't get
them, but we wouldn't miss them, we
only ditch them anyway. We got fed
better when we were advancing or up
against Aggies main army. / am COM
pletely disgusted the way this war has
been going on. 1 think it is a money
making scheme for the trusts as these
islands will never be any good for poor
man. They might for the rich. The
only way to settle this war is to lay
everything in waste, burn everything
we come to and keep the enemy in our
front, but as things are now we don't
know who are cur enemies. They are
right in town with US and have their
rifles hid when they go out for a few
days and shoot all the Americans they
run across and then come home.
Mucha amego, they say there are 400
rifles pie led in this town, and some
day they will use them on US, but it all
depends on the men behind the guns.
We are CHARTERED In a stone convent
and can mike it quite interesting for
them. The Spaniards were besieged in
this convent and the walls show the
marks of the rebel bullets. They were
finally compelled to surrender. The
people in the states, that is the rich peo-
pie who will 9:t the benefit, are telling
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