Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-22
WATER CURE" IS
VERY EFFECTIVE.
lesr Taking it FiIipinos Become
Gentle as Lambs
WHAT GROVER FLINT SAW.
WHAT GROVER FLINT SAW
witnessed Administrative" o. cure 10
.,,ye. Many Times-someiime
MEMS Teeth Came Out

washington. April 2L-The senate
,,,,ttee on the Philippines today re-
.amsd the examination of witnesses
e. the investigation of affairs in the
Philippines
croyer Flint OF Cambridge, Mass
,,,o served as first lieutenant in the
Tblrty.Afth voluntary infantry testl-
sed that early in May 1900, he had
,ooo n witness to the water cure, as
administered to the natives by the Mac
.hohe scouts and that this was done
% Get information as to the where
ohouts of their guns, The guns were
lo,lyered The following day some
men Of his own regiment applied the
cnre but their act was without the
SHthority OF their commanding officers.
Tbe Macabebes al the time referred to
'rors not under command of a COM
missloned officer, but under a sergeant
n me United states army
Flint had been, he said, q witness
N q, least twenty cases of water cure.
Ne had never seen anyone die as a
rssult Of the cure, but had seen a
tospltal corps man working on u ma
live who had been rendered uneon-
scIous. It also had been reported to
him that one Filipino died from the
effect OF the water cure.
The witness then described the meth
Cd Of administering the cure and said
mat In some cases where IL was given
10 old men he had seen their teeth fall
out
Mr.. Flint in response TO a question
by Senator DIETRICH, said he was pres
ont upon these occasions, ito draw the
line on excuses" He did not recon-
mend to the major that the practice
cease, nor did he give any orders to
bis men TO stop the torture.
Answering question by Senator
Burrows, the witness declared that the
effect Of the cure was immediate, the
victim invariably turning over his gun
or a bolo and giving information as
TO the whereabouts Of others. He said
Il was impossible to judge whether the
victims were insurgent soldiers or
PEASANTS but they appeared to be
peaceable villagers. Some Of them
we're thrown down by force; others
would submit readily, while those who
resisted We're held the more tightly,
The treatment. he said, never got to
the point OF great brutality.
Replying to a question by Senator
Lodge witness said he had been re-
fused a commission in the regular army
because his colonel had accused him
Of using intoxicating liquors to excess.
The witness deplored the raising OF
his question, but Senator Beyeridge
gid II had an important bearing on
,he case. Flint denied that on many
q the occasions when he had witnessed
he water cure he was under the In
fuence Of liquor He insisted that In
Justice to himself, he ought to state
that he was not drunk, but had been
a careless drinker.
Witness had, he said, released several
men who did not appear to him to be
|msurrectos Mai. Earl of his regiment
was always near, but had not inter-
fered In the administration Of the cure,
simply assigned "a commanding officer
10 see that the men did not go too
Far.
After considerable questioning the
witness finally admitted that he APP
proved Of the water cure, and, respond
|ng TO query by Senator Beverage,
said that IT was not an American in
|yentlon but was as old as the 'chron-
ces Of Newgate,"
Asked regarding Filipinos in guard
blouse he said that they were treated
exactly the same as American prison
|ers
The witness described the burning Of