The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
GRAVE CHARGES
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 estimate, under obligation still greater.
 In the Chaffee memorandum of April 15 is this language: The fact that any such acts of cruelty and barbarity ap- pear to have been done indicates the necessity of most thorough, searching and exhaustive investigation, and you will spare no efforts to uncover every case which may have occurred, and bring the offenders to justice" These words, and the inquiries and courts martial instituted in obedience thereto. unquestionably had a most clarifying effect. Their influence was immediate, great and beneficent. Meanwhile, we would respectfully submit that the good of the army, and the future of our east ern dependencies, demand that investi- gation should not stop at this point, or with results already reached. The in- quiries we, as a committee, have made, necessarily imperfect, have yet been sufficient to satisfy us that Gen Smith and Major Waller were not the sole cul- prits; nor should they suffice in the character of scapegoats.
 In your review of July IA, you say that these cases. were exceptional. Your means of information on this point should unquestionably be infinitely bet ter than ours, for you have access to the files of the war department; we have not. Meanwhile, it is always to be borne in mind that one side only of this painful story has been heard and that side only in part The testimony of Ho+ ously and systematically suppressed. Judicial and impartial examination on the spot has been denied, or pronounce ed impracticable. From the very na- ture of things, armies and army or ganizations are much the same every where, and recent foreign experience, still very fresh in public memory. for cibly suggests what may be expected from military tribunals and investiga- tions when the esprit de corps of enlist ed, or "the honor of the army is thought to be involved. In the present case, occasionally, and by accident merely, have fragments of information come to our knowledge-broken glimpses only have been permitted to reach the public eye. Certain facts have been elicited in the proceedings before the Senate Philippine committee, or through the imperfect reports of evil dence given in the more notorious of the courts-martial proceedings; but these, though very suggestive, are far from complete, much less exhaustive To our minds, they indicate unnistak- ably condition of great and general demoralization. Of this, the findings of +ha rts ,-ti ia1 Tafayro5 +a af conclusive evidence; as also do the pub lished orders of commanding officers and the reports of provincial governors.
 A general, for instance, high in com mand, permits himself to say: 'I will burn everything that stands, and kill everything that lives in Batangas to have peace.'' If nothing else, this is suggestive of another memorable utter ance of the same nature-an utterance with which the name of Warsaw is mournfully associated. As IS centuries ago, so "Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellent." Another general, a degree only less high in grade, is on record as declaring in language, not classic certainly, but, though less terse, equally forcible with that just quoted By the great horn spoon, I will make them want peace, and want it badly!' As the not unnatural result of military operations so inspired. an official report indicates that, out of total population in single district of 300,000, not less than 100000 perished.
 Is this assimilation" we would ask, 'benevolent" in character? In the case of Sanar, and the now familiar order there to burn everything and kill "all over 10," the secretary of war asserts that, owing "to the good sense and self restraint of Gen. Smiths subordinates and their regard for the laws of war,
 his intemperate and unjustif- able instructions were not followed" We are not aware that any reliable statistics on this head are generally &C., cessible; but the evidence is that Samar, with it's population of 100000 Christian beings, was not exempt from the results usual in cases where war, pestilence and famine combine in the work of destruction. Fire and the sword there had full sway.
 Language such as that just quoted, openly used by commanding officers, can have but one effect. To all interiors and subordinates it is an incentive at once direct and powerful to the sys- tematic commission of acts of the character revealed in the printed evi- dence of the Senate Philippine con- mittee. To proceed otherwise is, in our judgment, merely to add cant and hypocrisy to cruelty. In the case under consideration the courts-martial subse- quently convened habitually as we'll as naturally, recorded findings of which those in the Smith and Waller cases were typical. A reprimand has been the not unusual punishment deemed adequate for the killing in cold blood of natives by officers, whether those killed were at the time prisoners or only suspects, if, indeed, even that.
 At first. also, the charges of the in- fliction of torture by the so-called "wa-