The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-11-18
WAR MEANS TO
KILL AND BURN
Major General Young Says That Amer
leans Have Been Too Human
in the Philippines.
CRITICISM BECOMES VILLIfICATION.

Washington, Nov. IA. - A banquet
was given at the Arlington hotel last
night in honor. of the representatives
of foreign commercial bodies who
came to America to attend the dedi-
cation of the New York chamber of
commerce building and who arrived
in Washington from the metropolis
for a short visit yesterday. In addi-
tion to the foreigners there were
present Secretary Shaw and Postmas-
ter General Payne of President Roose-
velt's cabinet, Admiral Dewey Gems.
Corbin, Young and Wood, members
of the diplomatic corps and local bus
iness men.
Mr.. A. Barton Hepburn, the chair
man OF the committee on reception
Of the New York chamber of COM
merce, sat at the head of the table,
with Ambassador Cambon Of France
on his right and Ambassador Herbert
of Great Britain on his left, while to
the right and left of our ambassadors
were seated respectively Prince Pless
and Count Ouadt of the German en-
bassy. Mr.. Hepburn introduced the
speakers, among whom were Secre-
tarv Shaw and Major General Young.
Gen. S. B. NJ. Young in speaking 90
Our Soldiers in the Philippines"
said much comment on the army in
tI,< hi tn l.,
of criticism and descended to absolute
villifcation. He said that the state
ment came from unreliable persons
and from comparatively few persons.
The complaints did not come from the
Filipino people or from foreign press,
but originated with our own people
and were against our own soldiers
The accusers had tried to convince
the world that our soldiers are bar
barouS savaEes." He did not think it
right for these persons to create the
impression that isolated acts were
characteristic of the American army.
II say" he declared with vigor,
that the American army is the most
humane army that ever waged war
and | could bear out my assertions
by the Filipinos and Chinese and even
the Spanish prisoners" To carry on
war, disguise it as we may, is to be
cruel. 1t is to kill and burn, burn
and kill, and again kill and burn"
"If II had not been for the intense
desire Of the American people to car
ry on an easy, persuasive war with
the Filipinos and the good faith in
which the American officers acted to
carry out that desire, the Filipino war
would have ended in much less time
You feel confident that our little Jap
arese fiiends would have stopped the
pattering OF the bare future little
brown brothers through the iungles
in a very short time. and that the
aggressive army of our German
friends would have viewed with
eouanimity the burying alive of the
friends as did our soldiers in obedi-
ence. to the home sentiment. l. am
satisfied that the coming census of the
islands will have on the
list great many more people and
houses than there. would have been
II the German army had had control
the past four years.
"I am not an advocate of war,
either for conquest or for revenge,
nor as means of making either
good Indians or F'ilipinos, but when
war has heen decided ON by our ma
tion, agree with the German emper- !
or's sentiments and believe that the
American army should leave such an
that future generations
would know we had been there"