Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-27
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serve this government in its integrity. and
in all instances to uphold the authority of
the sultan OF datte In his own rancheria.
On the other hand; IN their relations with
us they fully understand that we hold the
sultan or datto responsible for the acts OF
his people, thathfs, he cannot be sultan ana
receive our support and recognition or his
authority and at0the' same time deny ms
responsibility for-the acts of his people
It was on this sthaory that l arrested the
Sultan Of Bipidayan last July because he
refused to deliver one of his insubordinate
dattos, Tangdf byeiname. who. with few
associates, attempted to kill two soldiers ON
the trail betHfen. here and the sea coast
The sultan while "a prisoner went jura-
mentado,' that Is ran amuck pursuant 20
a vow to kills and was himself killed by the
guards Ths1arrest Of this powerful oio
sultan, which, hyQthe way, was attended
with considerable difficulty, fully demon
strated to the whole Laguna that there
would be no. variation from this principle.
and 1t has BED to- positive acuon on tne
part of manysimportant dattos, who nave
said to their people: See here, II any Of you
modest the Americans In any way on comes
your head for weAdo not intend to be held
Dutch in their colonies in this part Of the
world seem TO hays little trouble, and they
maintain the kind Of government they
found In existence will say that. at any
rate, we can not afford to tear down their
established form of government without
giving them Something better. and fear it
will be long time before this can be done.
Wholesome Punishment. -
The Maciu campaigns have had a con-
vincing effect upon their savage minds as
to the impossibiity of their escaping pun
ishment sooner or later. Many times last
summer and fall l sent word to the hostile
Morcs that time would come when We
would make them pay dearly for their mid
night attacks on us and their thefts of our
property. but 1t seemed long while before
a cable announced that the President had
granted the necessary authority to General
Chaffee soon after which l received a
meSseg e to get ready. 1t was fine, this KIND
eff work. inasmuch as 1T had to be done,
fact that I regretted, and the spirit. the
bravery of our men ard the sacrifices they
can make-one has to actually command
them in campaign and in battle to under
stand. We gave several rancheT1es SOUND
drubbing, but went no further than was
necessary and 1t proved that the Moros at
once apprec.a ted this fact. although at the
time all ON the east side Of the lake heard
and believed that we were at last out for
conquest and they appeared to be surprised
that after the campaign we, on the contra
ry, returned peacefully to camp and re-
sun,ef our usual attitude toward them.
again extending an invitation to them to
visit u.s. In addition to fair ard honorable
treatment | believe in dealing out punish
ment justly and swiftly to those who in
terferel-wfth us or modest us in the exercise
lose respsct for u.s.
Some Admirable Traits.
.These Moros have some traits Of char
acter that are a0mirable-once friend
they will go the limit for you. They are not !
afraid Of work. but are ayeree to doing any
thing having an appearance of servitude.
To see that they are industrious, one has
only to view their beautiful landscapes in
sea SON dotted with rice fields and various
crops of agricultural produce. the entire
contingent Of the rancheria out at work.
some gathering the ripe grain, some cu,ti-
waiting and others driving away locusts or
rice blrs4s while at night with bamboo
tomtoms they frighten away wild bear or
deer
A Fertile Country.
..rhis Lanao country is capable of great
things from an agricultural standpoint.
All vegetables do well, and 1 believe that
all of cur forage, oats and timothy hay
would do VEL here. l am trying an expert
ment of an acre Of each, The lake has an
altitude of,2,sR fetets and the surrounding
country that aHsl agricultural varies from
that altitude to- 3,o0oafeet or more. Coffee,
usually poorayih Cultivated, is grown In
abundance, ana ths rolling country re-
minds one of tie Mohawk valley In places,
while the whole district has been COM
pared to that abodtIa George. The eli
mate is all tfAt The could wish in the
tropics, as tfie thermometer often drops
down to 5S degreestdand Is rarely more than
"a except in tile Middle of the day, occa-
sionally Twod monsoons blow the north
east from September to March, and the
southeast from March to September, the
latter being the rainy season..
ITO give you a resume of the situation
and how much progress has been made,
you may count ans the rancherias In the
northern sthirdnas friends and approximate
ly all on the seuthofrom Madalium around
to Maciu, theif few of the others in the
remaining parts might and some probably
will oppose us, but will say that L believe
we could march around the lake today with
one-half Of this command 600 mem and be
received in a friendly spirit everywhere with
the possible exception OF Bacolod, whose
leading dattos have recently shown some
signs Of weakening, and possibly Taraea
Many OF my reliable secret service Moro
friends through whom 1 keep posted on
what is going on, tell me this and add that
they want to go along with us. My trip to
the north of the lake by vintas In Novem-
Der with only Atty men was more or less
of a hazard. though the friendly reception
at all places proved that they had not for
gotten their obligations.
Likely to Become Friendly.
IF we can without any more fighting go
around the lake. and among these people we
can truly say that the 5000 people that