Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-22
MEANS THAT MUST BE USED.

by cable long ere my letter reaches you. One of them is convened in Ba- tangas province to try Lieutenant Sin. clair of wanton cruelty-cruelty, strangely enough, not to native, but to an American soldier. Just what the facts were cannot of course, be known, but it seems that the soldier, who had been put into the guardhouse for drunkenness refused to be quiet, bat shouted insulting things at the officer in command. Tn the effort to keep him quiet the man was, as the charge runs, given the water cure" as a result of which, or the drink, he died. Heuce the court martial
 The other court martial is convened in Samar to try an officer, Waller by name, for wanton cruelty to the na- lives. II these, cases are reported so the United States your readers will no doubt hear much of the water cure and may wonder what in detail 1t is.
 The water cure, with other equally deyllish tortures, is, of course. d means To an end. and it is justified by the army because, as means, it succeeds What is the end? The administration press, ably seconded by Governor Taft IS loudly declaring that the natives of the Islands are, upon the whole. friend " to the Americans. but no one. prac- tlcally, who is on the ground and who comes in touch with the native believes this. Here in Manila it takes fines of SoO to prevail on cocheros to haul Americans i'll their carriages. they nra- ferring to haul Eilipinos or SpanIards at less than the rate paid by us. From i the deck of ship ill Manila bay. while stlll Ill plain sight of the city, you can see the smoke of burning barrios in Cavite province, and Laguna province. With Batangas, the seat of the recon centration policy ill Luzon, are but a few miles away.
 The natives do not love Americans. ana With good reason. An army col umn, out, perhaps, burning barrios. IaIls in with a native. He may be n Vlllager tllling his garden, or a fisher hian. The Americans demand infor-
 natlon as to the whereabouts of rifles. the locatlon Of insurgent bands iii tha nelgnDorhood, and their cuartel. Now tue Iagalog Is by nature and by train- Ing suIien and disinclined to talk and conversation becomes doubly dificulf
 when questloner and questioned do not speaK me same language The Tag,- I J,1. loS AnoWs perhaps one English word. tne universally known '.Hello.,, md the soldier is equally deficient in Ta ios. Each will know q little Snanisr
 out not enough to make exchange cf iueas even under most favorable cir- cunstances at all easy. A native friendly to the Americans or-God sava the mark.-a Macabebe as interpretar presents awful possibilities for mfs- chief. - NOW, it must not be forgotten tbat the native who gives to the America ne information is i'll an unenyiabla noci. tion. He is not in Manila or in oar rlsoned town where tile Americans can protect him, he is among persons mn. friendly to our cause: and tho frian3II,, niltlVe, when he thinks of the era tIli- tous cruelty of the American solIie, | may well hesitate before arousing inc 'intagonlsm of his Filipino neighbors.
 but he who will not must be com peiied To dlYulge information. The past masters in the art of torture are ,ne MacaDebe scouts, hereditary ene- inies or The Tagals. Soldiers will tell you With glee of their hellsh tortures Nlen are tied up by their thumbs: men are pulled up to limbs of trees and fires klndied underneath them, the heat and sihoke compelling submissions men arc pounded particularly about the chest. Tor you'd be surprised," said a sol uler, how few knocks it takes to cause bleeding at the mouth.'' Buncles of Damboos tied af one end have the in- dlvidual rods pushed between the fin gers of the hand. When the other end of the bundle is squeezed together t,le pain is excruciating
 but the water cure! If the tortilres I've mentioned are hellish, the water cure is plain he'll The native is thrown upon the ground. and while his legs and arms are pinioned his head is raised partially, so as to make pouring Ill the water an easier matter. An at tempt to keep the mouth closed is Of no avail, bamboo stick or q pinching of the nose will produce the desired effect. And now the water is poured in, and swallow the poor wretch m1st or strangle. A gallon of water is much but it is followed by q second and q third. By this time the victim is cer- tain that his body is about to burst. But he is mistaken, for q fourth and even q. fifth gallon are poured in. By tis's time the body becomes an object frightful to contemplate, and the pain agony. While in this condition speech Is impossible and so the water must be squeezed out of him. This is some times allowed to occur naturally. but is sometimes hastened by pressure, and sometimes we jump on them to get IL out quick, said soldier to me with q smile-a young soldier mere bov hardly ten years out of his mothers lap. did not wonder when an officer. Ill answer to my question how often he had seen it. said, Not often, my feelings too much revoltcd' Does if seem possible that cruelty could fur ther go? And what must we think of the fortitude of the native, when we learn that many times the .scure'' is twice given ere the native yields? I heard of one who took it three times and died.
 How often is it given? is G natural question. No one knows. A sergeant told me he had seen it taken by be- tween 200 and 300. by as many as twenty sometimes in a day. Another had seen eighty. An officer saw four, but knew of it's happening POO times.
 Another phase of the subject merits our attention, the effect upon the American. The unconcerned way in I,s s-1 l1x