Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-09
WooLEY MAKES HIS CASE.


WOoLEY MAKES HIS CASE,
During the late campaign there
we're many speakers, especially those
Of the prohibition party, W, @. 4. U,
lecturers etc, who declared that the
United Safes government In the Philip
pines had commenced system Of
worse than licensing vlce-they had
placed II under medical protection of
the army These statements were
met with the fierce denunclation of
those blind partisans who knew moth
ing about 1t, and therefore answered
that 1t was o d.. lie. The condition
Of affairs thus portrayed was exposed
by some red crosa nurses, missionaries
and also by a representative Of the
national organ Of the prohibitionists,
the Voice, About the time Of election
the denials Of the truth of the charges
became 80 violent and Of o semi-of-
lcial nature 80 that those who had
published them and were RESPONSE
BILE for their circulation felt themselves
called upon to furnish new proofs.
Now the New Voice, John W. Wool
ey'B paper comes out with q page furn-
ishing all the proofs any one could
wish. One Of them Is q quotation
from cablegram sent to the war de-
partment by the so-called Taft commits
sion, under date OF January II, which
reads as follows;
"In November, 1898, spread of dis.
ease among soldiers led military, In
order to maintain effectiveness of army
to subject loose women to certified ex.
animation and confinement of dis
eased in special hospital, expense of
which paid from fund in custody of
army officers solely from fees charged
from examination Of SOC, to 50, accord
ing to place Of examination. System
has greatly reduced percentage, of dis.
ability from thlS cause, Purely army
police measure outside our jurisdic.
tion military necessity"
Under the system Of inspection thus
adopted by the government each pros
titute was on application and the
payment of the proper examination
fee, given book printed in blank 10
show her examinations with her photo
graph on the front page so that there
might be no swapping Of books and
names to defeat the purposes of the
inspection. The Voice Office has in its
possession one Of these books which
had been property of Filipino girl by
the name Of Marie de la Cruz. The
Voice prints facesmiles of the various
pages Of this book including the photo
graph. 1t shows that inspections were
made on Nov. 8, 1900, Nov. 23rd, Nov.
3Oth, Dec. 7th, Dec, 18th, and Dec. 2l
st. What became of the little Filipino
girl the story does not disclose. 1t
was then the book was closed. Per-
haps the physician of Uncle Sam could
no longer make the entry free from
the yenerial disease above his signl-
ture Of j. Abelle, Medical In
spector. And what a spectacle is this?
Our American government in its mis-
sion OF civilihing and Christianizing
the little brown brothers, must estab-
lIsh a department Of inspection so
that 1t will be safe for our American
soldiers to practice their immoralities
upon the daughters Of Filipino natives
of the soil. They are rebels. OIL
course they are. Just plain traitorous
rebels with deviltry in their souls, or
they would submit peacefully to our
benevolent method of assimilation.
But perhaps we ought not to feel so
shocked. Almost every we'll informed
person knows that England went
through all this in India long before
the Philippine Islands had any signi-
hcance to most Americans, The Brit
ish army found veneral contagious to
be the most deadly foe it had in India,
and the decent people sent up wall
that reached the wide world around
when the British government estab
lished the same sort of inspections.
1t was chiefly on these British statis-
tics that Edward Atkinson based his
arguments against the retention of
the Philippines which were printed in
his famous leaflets that were so de-
nounced as treasonous by the admins.
tration clackers. lie showed that an
oriental colony is and must be always
source of physical and moral con-
taminAtiOn IN nrnva r. ha ,notol