Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-07
DRNY % Be SET RIGHT
Official Reply Prepared to the
Charges OF Anti.
Imperialists.
Natives Shown to Have Been
Well Cared for in Military
Camps.
Real Facts are Given Death
Rate Due to Filth-Wash.
ington News.

ply will he made by the ;ilministra
ton to the charges made against TIL,
army in the Philippines by the anti.
iimperialists in their open lett II TO Pres
ident Roosevelt. Col. Clarence Ed
wards, chief OF the insular division o
the war department, will prepare tn,
/ answer, which will be addressed Il
the American people. These charges
many of which have been disproved
are characterized as ridiculous and con
trary to all known facts. An officia
speaking of the matter said today:
They begin with an attack upon the
morality of the army, but overlook sucl
tributes as that of the archbishop OF
Manila, who testified before the Phil
Iippine commission, saving | must rem
der just tribute to the American army
here. | have noticed al along the con
sideration they have had for the wom-
EN-. 1t is worthy of comment. 1t they
I had been Spaniards. or Italians. OF
F'renchmen. they would have commit
ted more breaches in the line of moral
ity than the American soldier has. The
same prelate declared that even the
| footing of the churches ceased when the
volunteers went away.
Gen. Otis in his testimony before
the senate committee declared that the
| Americans were laughed ut by the
Spaniards and the Europeans for the
humanity they exercised Gen
Hughes said that in all his experience
| in the Philippines he had heard of on
ly one case of wounded man being
ileft i'm the field. Both officers described
in detail the humane methods adopted
in the hospitals and how hospitals for
wounded natives We're maintained be-
side hospitals for American soldiers.
That the esprit de corps OF the army
was not responsible for the favorable
testimony of army officers is proven by
the assertions of Gov. Taft, whose testi-
mony was unaffected by the fact that
a feeling of jealousy existed between
the army and the civil authorities.
Gov. Taft urged upon the senate
committee that While orders and pub
Ills statements by Gen. Macarthur were
so numerous as to evidence the fact
they also evidenced the desire on the
part of those who were responsible to
prevent their recurrence"
Death Rate Due to Native Filth.
THE anti-imperialists charge" said
this official, that as a result of the
military operations inspired by one Off
GERS exclamation. BY the great horn
spoon will make them want peace and
want it badly out of population of
3OO,0 900, in one district not less than
10000 persisted. The report of the gov
ernor of Iloilo, which gives these figures
shows. however. that this mortality was
caused not by war, but by disease, such
as malaria and dysentry. In the same
period rinderpest plague destroyed 3d.
$50 head of carabao and other cattle.
Army officers ask, were these cat
tie killed by the cruelties OF the Amer
lean soldiers? Was the army to blame
because, as the civil governor of lloilo
says, In avoiding the danger arising
from the unsantary methods the people
of the province seem TO put an implicit
faith in God: the rest they leave 20 the
hogs. Sanitation is thing unknown
and uninterrupted. Drainage is n thing
unheard of and unbeliered in. Wells
ar etc be found in nearly every yard
and in close proximity TO dirty shoals of
stagnant water, and filth is allowed to
accumulate near them them, and l have
often seen people washing their clothes
and bathing their persons on the brink
Of these polls. which are designated by
the name of wells. This must all be
remedied, but it will require forceful.
energetic, and in some cases, perhaps,
drastic measures
Notwithstanding the admitted des-
truction of thousands of natives by dis
ease due TO the lack of sanitation. these
people rave al onr policy of concentra-
ton unmindful OF the benefit the con-
centration camps were to the natives
who sought their protection. Official
reports all show that the mortality in
these camps was reduced to mini
mum, sickness was little known, and
those within the lines had more to eat
than they had living in their own VIII
lagos where they We're at the mercy of
the ladrones and insurgent marauders."
Strangers to Be Kept Out.
Strict enforcement of the policy OF
excluding from the coast defense forth
tications persons not connected with the
military establishment of the United
States has been decided on by the wal
department. There is {; regulation
which prohibits any person from visit :
ing the parapets and emplacements
without special authority from the
secretary of war. At some artillery
posts this has been rigidly adhered to-
while at others its laxIty has been the
cause of considerable comment. AT the
present time ii is aimed more directly
at visitors and military attaches of
foreign governments.
At some posts visitors are permitted
to visit the quarters, the parade
grounds, and other places of interest
but an armed sentinel bars the passage
to the newly mounted guns. AT Fort
ress Monroe number of guns of OBJ
solete type are kept in view for the
benefit of visitors, who are admitted to
the post under certain restrictions AT
Fort Washington. near the national
capital, the rule is strictly enforced and
no one is permitted about the post UNI
less on ocial business. This is equally
true of nearly all of the recently equip
PED coast defenses and particularly so
of the forts about New York, including
the Sandy Hook proving ground
Notwithstanding this, peculiar con-
dition was discovered at Fort Wright,
where several guns of large caliber
have been installed and where en-
placements have recently been con-
structed. This work about the en-
Mo cemantS was let nv contract and The