Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-24
MEANING OF IMPERIALISM.
hathless Ru1e by MILITARY Power
Worse Than w~eylerisna or
Kitchenerism.

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Imperialism is still to be kept to the
front as an issue and the unhappy Fill
ipinos are to feel the full burden of it.
Imperialism means the ruthless rule
of the military, without the rules of
civilized warfare, and yet the Filipinos
are not sayages; they have murdered
no prisoners, they have slain no wom-
en- or children. They have inflicted no
fortunes, nor nave they outraged wives
and daughters, and yet the edict a
gone forth that they are to be ruthless
~ killed.
Worse than Weylerism, worse than
kitchenerism, is to be the new policy in
the Philippines as a result of the re-
cent disaster to the invading troops in
Samar, say the johnson Democrat.
These things must STOP" said the
strenuous president, with a snap of his
militant jaws. And forthwith he or
dered Gen. Chaffee at Manila to "use all
adequate measures to suppress the in
surgents in Samar and all other prov
inees where they become active"
What these adequate measures" are
to be is limited at strongly in Washing
ton dispatches. They mean death to
the Filininos-a war of literal exter-
mination. From one press dispatch we
learn what the programme is likely to
be.
Gen. Corbin, in discussing the Balan-
giga affair, said the Filipinos were
much like the American Indians and
that their complete subsection would
be delayed for an indefinite period of
time. Those who are given to reading
between the lines of official u~tterances
see in this statement evidences hat
the natives are to be treated by the
American forces just as were the red.
skins here.
1t Will be recalled that Indian upris.
ings were followed by swift and ter
rible punishment and one of Clusters
exploits wherein every soul of the tribe,
down to the very papooses, was put to
the sword. remains to this day an un-
written page of American history.
Something akin to this terrible vista
ton is believed to await the revolving
inhabitants of Samar.
Every male native within miles of
the scene of the attack should be killed
ruthlessly," explained an officer just
returning from the Philippines, "and
their homes destroyed.
although the American public is
not aware of it, he added, Somewhat
similar methods have been employed in
several of the new much-heralded paci-
fed districts"
This is a pleasant programme. 1t ac-
cords we'll with our benevolent profess
sions. And it ought to appeal power
fully to those lynching ministers and
mob-inspiring pulpit patriots, who
have lately been so much in evidence.
Certainly their spirits should rise in re-
sponse,t to so fine d prospect as that sug-
gested by the "officer just returned
from the Philippines"
Yet what have these Filipinos done?
In the first place, they fell upon q
company of soldiers, killed them in a
desperate fight in which they lost 140
against the American loss of 40 to so.
1t was a surprise, but not a greater one
than many another of which the Fill
ipinos were themselves the victims. 1t
was all in the way of war. The Amer
leans were out hunting for little
brown men whom they intended to
kill if they could. 1t happened the lit
tie brown men saw them first. But
their OF the HNdOlnS IOrcS
is now accounted a savage crime and
it is to be punished in a savage way by
savagery as bad as the red Indian ever
conceived.
adequate measures" are ordered
from the white house. And those
around the capital and in touch with
army purposes understand that this
phrase means, what it meant when 1t
was applied to the Indians-where
every soul in the tribe, down to the
very papooses, was put to the sword"
And yet the dead president almost
with his latest breath gave utterance
to this lofty sentiment: "Let us ever
remember that our interest is in con-
cord, not conflict, and that our real
eminence rests in the victories Of
peace, not those of war"