The age-herald., 1902-05-01
Military Order No. 100.

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 When Maj. L. w. T. Waller was trESH on the charge of committing Hfbarities in samar, he put the re- JGponsibility for those barbarities on v Brigadier General Smith. When Smith lis brought to trial, he admits that he Issued an order to kill all males down to ten years old, to burn all build ings, and in short to make the island a bowling wilderness, but he says he did this in pursuance of orders. He intimates, in other words, that Gen eral Chaffee and Secretary Root and the irrepressible Corbin are responsi- ble for all that was done. All the evidence goes to show that the bar not even in China, and 1t Is scarcely credible that General Chaffee and Sec retary of War Root and Adjutant Gen eral Corbin were ignorant and inno- cent. All three knew what was going on, and all three sanctioned all that 
 was done. This is the plain truth of the case, as disclosed in the trial of Smith at Manila.
 Smiths defense at Manila seems to be based on a relic of the civil war, He says he simply enforced In Samar Military Order No. 100, under which Sheridan devastated the Shenandoah Valley so that a crow flying over 1t would have to carry It's own rations; under which Sherman burned Colum- bia; under which Wilson raided the defenseless towns of Alabama, carry ing the torch as well as the sword. This was war in 1S63-5, and the war of that period }has been revived and extended in ISamar to all over ten years old. 1t appears, then, that Milf tary Order No. 100 Is to bear the blame. The officers found this order in their book of instructions, and they proceeded to enforce its provisions Who, then, is responsible for keeping alive this order?
 In carrying out this order General Smiths counsel last Friday at the trial made this admission:
 . General Smith did give instructions to Major Waller to kill and burn, and make Samar a bowling wilderness; he admits that he wanted everybody killed capable of bearing arms and that he did specify all over 10 years of age, as the Samar boys of that age were equally as danger ous as their elders.'
 That he was fully sustained in this order by his superiors is plain, for General Chaffee said last January in letter of instructions to Major Gen. eral Hughes:
 There is one thing necessary, and that is the wholesale fear by these people of the army It is to our interest to dlsarm these people and to keep them disarmed, and any means to that end is advisable. It is our duty to suspicion every male in- habitant in these islands. It is my opinion that Cebu in the past has been petted al- together too much. and that the island of Bohol needs a strong cathartic."
 General Miles endeavored, it will be remembered, to stop the marked se- verity'' of the campaign in the Philip pines, and Secretary Root at once flew at him, declaring that the war had been waged with extraordinary hu- manity" The nature of that "extra- ordinary humanity" now stands con- fessed. It was of the Sherman-Sheri. danWilson sort. and it Is simply pre- posterous to say that Chaffee, Root and Corbin were ignorant and inno- cent, and that "Jakie" Smith can be- come scapegoat for the responsible authorities at Manila and in Washing ton.
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