The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-05-30
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
FRIDAY, MAY %, 1902.
DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

1t is singular how time will bring
changes in class Of people to abhor
a certain line of work in war when
the ancestors of those same people
have at times passed beyond the
alleged tortures that have been ad-
ministered in the war in the Philip
pines. In commenting on this fea-
ture of New England gibes at the
methods employed in the Philip
pines the Minneapolis Tribune a few
days ago went back into ancient
history and related some facts that
shows the history of New England
states not to be free from some afro
cities by the side of which the water
cure, ETC., pale into insignificance:
Most Of this sickening yawp about
the brutal savagery of the American
army in dealing with inferior races
in the Philippines comes from New
England. New England is the lair
OF the Anti-Imperialist League.
New England seems to have caught
and shipped to Washington the refuse
of the guard room, whose testimony
is giving the senate the horrors and
making the country long fora chance
to get at the senate. What is the
early record of New England in this
matter? n Angle Saxon sovereignty had
to be established in New England
two and a half centuries ago. It was
done pretty thoroughly; but we have
not heard that the ancestors OF Sena-
tor Hoar objected to the sternness os
1T. Ii it had not been done thorough
ly, there would be no Massachusetts
to send Hoars to the senate and probf
ably the country would have gone
to the dogs for want Of their light
and leading.
What is the use OF illustrating the
ing in 4 the Philippines ss15 by the eSter- Stsr-
mination Of Apaches and Sheridans
Wichita massacre, when the history
OF New England supplies better eN-
emplar? The God-fearing settlers of
the three colonies had lot of trouble
from 1851 to 1887 with the Pequot
tribe OF Savages. AS they expanded
into the interior, the Pequots toma-
haWked and scalped them and burned
their houses. Endicott made puni-
tive expedition to Block island in
1886, which was conducted with the
ordinary humanity of that time: that
is, only armed men were killed.
Roger Williams tried to quiet the
Pequots after this, but his diplomacy
had much the effect Of civil govern
ment in the Philippines. He Isolated
the tribe from the Narragansetts and
Mohegans, but the Peouots them
selves continued to mutilate, torture,
roast and murder all the white set
tiers they could find, much in the
manner described in the records of
Philippines military trials.
There was a certain John Mason in
Connecticut, who had seen service
in the Low Countries and knew what
war was. The authorities raised a
company of 25O Englishmen and put
Mason in command, A few Massa-
Hchusetts militia joined these under
Captain Underhill, and the Puritan
soldiery fell upon a fort of the Pc
quots near the Mystic river in the
dead Of night. The tribe was wiped
out as with bloody sponge Men,
women and chilrden blended in one
red slaughter. Fugitives were hurled
back into the blazing fort and wig
: vans. The few survivors were re-
duced to slavery, sold to the West In
dies Or made house servants to the
English. These lost two killed in
the fight and the tribe lost every
thing, down to it's very name.
Here is an example beside which
Smith and Waller show like peaceful
missionaries or Red Cross nurses. 1t
is not upon the records OF any of the
colonies that Captain Mason was
court martialled or that the settlers,
freed from fear of instant death by
fire or torture, held towards him any
sentiments but those of gratitude and
admiration. 1t has taken eight gen.
erations OF peace and plenty to soften
the stern New England character
down to the quivering sentimental
sensltiveness OF the Anti-Imperalis-
tic League