Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-13

fore the Senate Committee, mas developed
! the real character Of the government of the
Philippine Islands. That il is an irrespon-
sible military olgarChy supplemented by
the assassination and Wholesale murder of
the natives has been clearly demonstrated.
| The proceedings of the Waller court-martial
but emphasizes the truth of this conclusion.
Even the English newspapers are chipping
in and sympathizing with the United States
in having such monsters dressed in the
uniforms of officers. Hear the St. James
| Gazette:
"Englishmen know better than to hold a
high-spirited honorable people responsible
for the dishonor of a single criminal. We
have no doubt American honor will be win.
dicated in the same manner as the British
has rec emily been by an award of swift, un-
compromising justice to the guilty parties.
! In this country our confidence In American
rectitude is in no degree shaken by an iso-
lated example of depravity such as we
know from experience is liable to occur in
the armies of the most civilized and most
humane nations"
Senator Patterson's examination of Cen
eral Macarthur. shows admissions by that
officer that he deported eminent citizens for
expressing their sentiments or 'agitating"
as he terms it. And the cable dispatches
of yesterday informs startled world that
the editors of Manila newspapers have
been arrested for daring to publish current
news because il reflects on the satraps
numbering and pillaging the unfortunate
Filipinos. The dispatch says
Excitement prevails here on account Of
the arrest of the editor and proprietor of
Freedom, a local publication, who is
charged with sedition in publishing, re-
Gently, an article from an American periodi-
-, Al. -s.rE g.sf I
He also added remarks of his own, censur-
ing the United States commissioner rule,
and saying that when il started in July last
every paper in the city upheld it, since
which they had all dropped by the wayside,
as they would not support arbitrary govern
ment especially when evidences of carpet
bagging and rumors of graft" were too
thick to be pleasant, "
THE editors OF the Y0lcan0 have also
been arrested ON a suit Of the government
for demanding the removal Of the Judge
who recently tried Senior Valdez (the editor
Of local Spanish paper, who was fined
1000 pesetas for libeling two Filipino mem
bers of the commissiOn), and who is now
trying the editor of FTeedOm under the
sedition law.
These proceedings have aroused the en-
tire press Of Manila and its representatives
met last Thursday and resolved 10 send a
committee to the commissioners 10 argue
against the injustice Of the proceedings.
The meeting also determined to send a
/ cable message to President Roosevelt, urg-
ing him to take steps TO prevent the COM
mission from using the sedition law in such
cases to prove ieSe 0idjeSie against editors.
The meeting, which was enthusiastic, was
also largely attended by lawyers, doctors
and others"
Some of he military officers. however,
have distinguished themselves for their
humanity and their open protest against
the barbarous treatment Of the inhabitants
of the Islands. Major Cornelius Gardener,
civil governor in the Province Of Tayabas
made a report Of these Ihings, which was
suppressed until recently by the War De-
partment. 1t is on this report that General
Miles based his 'feprehensible remarks"
on the severity with which the military
satraps we're dealing with the inhabitants
when he volunteered to go out himself and
offered plan to pacify the islands, which
Root and Roosevelt characterized as NON
sensical, visionary, etc" Here are a few
things Major Gardener says in his report
''Of late, by reason Of the conduct Of the
troops, such as the extensive burning Of the
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try so that the insurgents cannot occupy il,
the torturing of natives by so-called water
cure and other methods in order TO obtain
information, the harsh treatment of natives
generally and the failure of inexperienced,
lately appointed lieutenants commanding
posts to distinguish between those who are
friendly and those unfriendly, and TO treat
every native as if he were, whether or no,
an insurrecto at heart this favorable senti-
ment above referred to is being fast de-
stroyed, and deep hatred toward US en-
gendered. If these things need be done,
they had best be done by native troops so
that the people of the United States will
not be credited herewith
Almost without exception soldiers, and
also many officers, refer to natives in their
/ presence as 'niggers,' and natives are be-
! ginning to understand what the word mig
| ger means.
The course now being pursued in this
province and in the provinces of Battangas,
/ Laguna, and Samar is, in my opinion, SOW
ing the seeds for a perpetual revolution
| against us hereafter, whenever a good op-
/ portunity offers. Under present conditions
the political situation In this province is
slowly retrograding. and the American SEN
timent is decreasing, and we are daily
making permanent enemies
| In the course above referred to, troops
make no distinction often between the
| property of those natives who are insurgent
or insurgent sympathizers and the property
Of those who heretofore have nsked their
lives by being loyal to United States and
giving us information against their country
men in arms Often every house in barrio
/ is burned.
And here are the kind Of people. Major
Gardener finds the Filipiuos to be.
1T has been stated that Filipino or an
Oriental does not appreciate just or kindly
treatment, that he considers il an evidence
of weakness and that severe and harsh
measures are the only ones that are per.
manently effective with Filipinos / have
found that just aud kind treatment, uni.
form and continued, is the only way By
which these people can be made perma-