The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-08-30
MILES GOES TO MANILA.

MILES GOES TO MANILA.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson a. Miles of the
United States army, whom Roosevelt
and Root objected to as grand mar
shall Of the G. a. r. parade in Wash
ington on Oct G. is going OH tour of
inspection to the Philippine Islands.
No less an individual than Secretary
Cortelyou has made the announce
ment, and he adds that Miles is going
with the consent of President Roose-
welt to inspect army conditions
there. He will be away about a year
and all we shall hear about him will
be through lying cablegrams telling
the American people that everything
is lovely in our new possessions.
The imperialists are afraid of
Miles, and they have reason to be so.
1t was he who told Root that the war
in the Philippines was conducted with
severity, and when the Secretary Of
War insolently replied that it was car
ried on with humanity he shortly
afterwards had to produce documents
which proved that Miles was right.
Hell Roaring Jake" and other officers
We're waging a barbarous warfare
against the natives of Samar and the
President ordered them to be court
martialad. III the end, Jake Smith
was retired and Major Glenn was rep
Timanded and fined for administering
the water cure" to eXtort confessions
from Filipinos who did not like to
a foreign foe.
The Duluth Tribune which is re-
markable for it's narrow partisanship,
charges Miles with communicating to
Democratic members Of Congress the
substance of Major Gardeners report
on atrocities in the province of Sa-
mar where one-thild of the natives
We're annihlated by our soldiers of
freedom, when only few days ago
Miles denied that he had ever given
them any information from official
documents. The report was confiden-
tial and secret, and Miles is too much
Of an officer and gentleman to give
away the substance of it to any one.
The bad breaks of Miles, referred
to by our Zenith City contemporary,
have no foundation whatever except
il! the fertile Imagination of Republi-
can editors of the imperialistic brand.
When Miles was interviewed in Bos-
ton by a veracious reporter Of the AS
sociated Press he kept reticent as to
the objects of his trip to the Philip
pines and said he could not tell until
he got there what he would do, but
that ha would have nothing to do with
any matter outside of his profession.
Has he ever ihad anything to do with
matters outside of his profession?
Yes. he said few words about the
Schley court of inquiry which all pa
triotic Americans Endorsed, but the
Rough Rider of San Juan rebuked
him in his characteristic cowboy
style. and lie gained no friends by the
reprimand administered to the great
est soldier OF any army in the world.
1t is quite natural fer the organs
of spoliation and conquest to be afraid
Of Il genuine American like Miles.
Every evil-dOer in the army has
cause to be afraid of him. AS COM
handing general of the army of the
United States lie has right to enforce
discipline. He knows more of army
matters than Il hundred Roosevelts
and Roots who by some inscrutablc
dispensation Of Divine Providence are
III Il position to insult and humiliate
him in the eyes of the people who
admired him long before they sprang
into prominence in New York politics.
Perhaps Gen. Miles visit to the Phil
ippines may result in ether court
m:lrtials and that other officers of the
imperial army of occupation may fol-
low Jake Smith into solitude. Under
the law there is no way of prevent
ing Gen. Miles from going anywhere
within the limits # his command.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says:
Gen. Sherman once moved the
army headquarters to ST. Louis and
Gen. Miles ordered himself TO Santi-
ago during the war with Spain. At
that time there was some fear that he
would endeavor to supplant Gen. Shat
ter in command of the Cuban expedi-
ton, and Secretary Alger found it
necessary to reassure Shafter that