Arizona republican., 1902-12-02

grew stronger, rather than weaker, under the effect of a conCiliatory and peaceful policy, and the fierce natives of Samar were excited to greater hos tility by a successful surprise at Ba- langiga in September, by which the people of the town, who had given every appearance of friendliness and were treated as friends set upon company of the Ninth infantry while at breakfast and murdered most of them.
 Active campaigns were accordingly inaugurated in both regions; and these resulted in the surrender of Malvar on
 the 16th of April, and in the capture of Lukban and the surrender Of Cue
 yara his successor. on the 27th of April
 General Frederick D. Grant reports that the surrenders in Samar included
 every gun known to exist in the island,
 except two: and General J. F. Bell. who conducted operations against Nal var in Batangas, reports that during the campaign we secured 3.56l guns. 625 volverS, with many thousand bolos, rounds of ammunition, etc. and detected, captured, or forced to sur render some eight or ten thousand persons actively engaged in one ca pacity or another in the insurrection. These surrenders put an end to the guerilla warfare in the Philippines. | which had been waged with great | ferocity ever since the destruction of Aguinaldo's government in the latter | part of 1899. and had been accompanied | by constant treachery, assassinG tion,
 cruelty, and disregard of the laws of | war.
 i The way was now clear to complete
 the establishment of civil government,
 and by energetic action and hearty CO., | operation on the part of both the civil
 and military authorities in the Philip pines this was accomplished coinci- dently with the enactment by congress
 of the Philippine government bill of
 July l, 1902.
 On the 4th of July, 1902, the remainder
 of the military government was ended | by executive order.
 The dual process by which the mili- | tary power had steadily acquired con | trol over the various provinces of the | archipelago, and at the same time had been superseded progressively by civil
 administration, was then finished, and
 a complete system of civil government.
 built up under the authority of coR- | gress.
 l described in my last report the i'm portant bearing which the continuous
 offer and bestowal of civil rights and local self government as the result of pacification had upon the attitude of
 the people toward the insurrecticn. It
 is evident that the insurrection has
 been brought to an end by making a
 war distressing and hopeless on the
 one hand, and by making peace at
 tractive, through immediate and pres ent demonstration of the sincerity of our purpose to give to the people just; and free government. on the other This result could not have been accom- plished except by genuine and hearty cooperation of both the military and l civil authorities acting together under the general direction of the war depart ment.. The good temper and mutual consideration and helpfulness, and subordination of personal to public interests, displayed by General Mac
 Arthur and General Chaffee on the one hand. and by Governor Taft, Vice Governor Wright. and the civil com
 mission on the other. frequently under circumstances of great delicacy and difficulty, are worthy of high praise Some of their subordinates, through incomplete knowledge and from widely differing points of view, have some
 times expressed discordant opinions.
 but both soldiers and civilians. with very few exceptions, have rendered 1 loyal and devoted support to the pre- scribed policy.
 There was at one time in the public
 press and on the floor of congress much criticism of the conduct of the army Tn the Philippines, as being cruel and
 inhuman. All wars are cruel This conflict consisted chiefly of guerilla
 warfare. It lasted for some three years