Evening star., 1902-04-30
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TAFT PRAISES THE ARMY.
It's General Record in the Philippines
Highly Commended

Gov. Gen. William H. Taft of the Philip
pine Islands addressed about two thousand
students. professors and others in College
Street Hall a. Yale College last evening
He was introduced by President A. T. Had
ley. After briefly reviewing the historical
and geographical features of the Philip
pines, Judge Taft described its government
tai and economic status at the time the
American army took possession. He then
developed the history of the past four
years more especially the work of the Phil
ippfnes commission.
Gov. Taft reviewed the same ground as
that covered by his evidence before the
Senate and House committee.
With respect to the evidence as to the
water cure and other cruelties Gov Taft
said that 1t must be remembered that the
army or forty to sixty thousand men. by
reason Of the guerrilla warfare carried on
by the insurgents, had to be divided into
500 posts, many Of which We're commanded
by first and second leutenants or captains
and some times by Sergeants, and that the
detachments in the field far exceeded the
number of posts; that this explained how
1t was possible, with many engagements
daily, exceptional instances of such abuses
might occur without typifying the conduct
of the army, which. on the whole, was hu-
name and considerate toward the natives
1t was not to be expected that in an army
or sixty thousand men there should not
pS uiuleS OF weak men, VINO would Weld
to the temptation of arbitrary power and
the provocation hardly to be understood of
the ambush and treachery, saVagery and
danger of the Filipino guerrilla warfare as
1t was practiced.
With respect to the order of Gen Smith
In Samar, the speaker said that as the
matter was subjudice and had happened
since he left the islands, he did not feel
justified In making public statement. The
inadequacy Of short cable dispatches in CIV
ing a true picture of a situation required
delay until the whole record could be for
warded and the findings reviewed by the
President.
In speaking of the relations between the
church and the government in the Philip
pines, the speaker said that under the
Spanish rule the church and state had held
their interests so inextrcably associated
and fused that 1t was work Of the incest
and most difficult character to separate
justly the interests of the one from the
other, and yet those interests must be sep
arated in order that the church and state
in the Philippines should be brought to the
condition required by our traditions and
system Of government. 1t was an indis-
pensable condition precedent to bringing
about the necessary separation that there
should be some conference between the
church authorities and the representatives
of this government with view to an ami
cable adjustment Whether this conference
should be between representative of the
United States government and a represen-
tatiye Of the great corporation Of the Cath
olic Church. or should be conference be-
tween representative Of this government
and the head Of the church was a mere
matter Of method and facility Of complete
settlement. 1t could not, of course, involve
the establishment of diplomatic relations
with the Vatican, but If held would be
be a conference made necessary by the
unusual circumstance of a transfer of a
sovereignty from a country closely asso-
ciated with the church. which must have
the interests Of the church and state sepa-
rate,