The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-20

ians and priests. they were ""en -
- in 1<aS without native leaders
- democracy absolutely unorgah-
s.. There the United States fonnd no
ogni1ad power 10 deal With, Tor Asulh
.ldo was a usurper and strong ohiS -
f+ seemed among the IagalogS' nc
,har, been native potentates, whose -
baa been sanctioned BY time soiu'hsu
no acouiescence OF the people. II
would have been possible to SUBSTITUTE
r,,tual agreements for the arbitrameht
~ the sword. to which Aguinaldo ap-
raalaa But the tribal organization
nbich Spanish power had restroyed II
Inzon and the Visayas. where spanish
cover vas effective. still survived III the
-, horn islands. wher Spanish power
had been merely nominal.
p.rbans may be allowed TO say mere
,bat VAS the first American offlclal 70
visit those regions. and, as ! nave else
uyhera reported. | arranged on beflaIl OF
the President Of the United states lor
he renewal with the sultan OF Sdlu q
the so-called treaty" under the terms
of which he had lived with SPAN: ana
~ cahling the result to Washington |
recommended the extension OF TINS
Motley Of friendly agreements TO all the
enltons and dattos Of M~indanao, SuIu
and Palawan. A month later the eNecu-
rion of this policy was mtrEsted 10
Gen. Bates. who pursued the work with
admirable skill and excellent results. =
similar course had been adopted by
Great Britain in her dealings with the
kindred sultans Of the Malayan federated
states many years before. and the bril-
liant success attending it had become a
COMMONPLACE OF oriental history. Now
y, :,r ~, laaTaLr ennEaTn WhEInET
an arrangement which has the warrant
of historical experience. which is adapted
10 the social conditions OF the Moham-
medan tribes of Mindanao and which
eratifes them and has made them our
friends for two or three years, should
be SET aside because some army officer
or some civilian trader wants to see
What the interior Of their country Is
like? Our primary concern wlth the
Moros is peace, and TO the maintenance
Of peace we should lend every effort
and sacrifice every minor object.
Let us now dismiss the Mohammedans
and their heathern neighbors in the
southern islands and turn TO the island
Of Sanlar, in the Nisayan group and TO
the province of Batangas in the island
of i.uZon. These people. remember, are
not savages or 'injuns' or barbarians.
1 ileS are clNIllLtu II I9tIdIiS, did III tHN
province of Batangas, which lies just
south of Manila, the people, who are
quite prosperous, are above the average
Of Filipinos in education and refinement.
Samar and Batangas were the last ac-
tive centers of the insurrection, which
is now completely quelled according to
our official reports. 1t is here, if we
may believe official dispatches as we'll
as Geographic news, that some OF our
military authorities nave practiced Wey-
ler'S system of recommendation, reSorted
to oriental methods of torture. burned
happy homes into a bowling Wilderness.
and not only killed non-combatants, but
murdered boys over 10 years Of age.
| state the alleged facts without either
eXaggeration or palliation, WOhld to
HEAVIER they were only q tissue of devil
lish inventions, But too much has al
ready been admitted to leave any hope OF
appreciable abatement of the horror and
the anguish which have wrung the
hearts Of the American people. War is
hell indeed. and in a sense we had
scarcely dreamt of. | remember CALAIS,
the pity of ito at the beginning OF
hostilities in the Philippines, seeing
cities where thousands of people dWeIt
together in peace and prosperity utterly
destroyed; but there was no murder,
there was no torture: there may even
have been a good military excuse. or
the insurgents themselves may have
lighted the first incendiary torch; and
in all cases the lives of non-combatants
were sacred, and insurgent soldiers
taken prisoners were we'll cared for in
our hospitals. But, as the greatest OBJ
server of human nature has recorded,
the hand is subdued to what it works
~ -nrI fD.- o,--
in the philippines the inevitable Ne
mesis now confronts us. This is a
world where effect inexorably follows
cause. You cannot have war without
inhumanity, and the practice of inhu-
manity deadens and brutalizes charac-
ter. When it is a race war, particularly
a war Of An~glo-Saxons against a colored
race, the white mans moral deteriora-
ton is facilitated by contempt, by ar
rogance and by injustice. Most truly
was it said in 1898 that the question was
not what shall we do with the Philip
pines, but what will the Philippines do
with us.
mis- question We are now seeing an
sWered. On the other side Of the globe.
lfrltated by q bad climate, confronted
by great difficulties and exposed 70
great temptations without the home re
straints that keep men steady. CALLED
and exasperated by the Vaccinations or
an elusive foe, whose color and stature
make it impossible for the AngIo-Saxon
t. treat hi1n with respect, some Ameri-
cans at least have been guilty of con
duct which eyokes the horror and de-
testatlon OF mankind. But if our checks
burn with patriotic shame and our
hearts culver with moral Indignation. LET
the bolt strike not only the unhannv in
dividuals, but the system and policy OF
which they have been the victims
What, ask, do you want in the
fhlllpplnes. More particularly. why in
any part of Luzon and the Visavan Is
lands are you making a bowling wilder
ness and killing children over 10 wears
age 1t will be said that those arr
the unhappy incidents of war which ic
always q stern affair. very diffarant