The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

caught the culprits, tried them at a drum-head court-martial, and ordered them shot. The sentence met-with the approval of the natives, for they suf- fered more from the Iadrones than did my own men.
 ''To show the poor logic, that was ex- hibited by some of my critics. a friend sent me clipping from a New York newspaper, which said editorially that if had been under Grant or Sherman, and had done such a thing, I would
 have been summoned before a drum head court-martial and shot before sunrise. You see they. conceded to Grant or Sherman the right to shoot me for what deemed to be my duty,
 but they deny that had the right to execute a band of desperadoes, who were a menace to life and property in
 my district, and who were murderers many times over. .... .,s
 They said I should have reported the case to my general before taking such stringent action. Unfortunately was so situated that Tseouldn't, and,
 besides, was in command bsolute command-of the province. a.y. T should have mentioned one more case of cruelty to which cheerfully plead guilty. In the town of Basey there was prominent citizen, who had an insane daughter. He kept her |chained to the floor like a wild animal. Sometimes in the night she would shriek and wall. Whenever this oc- cured her father would take a heavy whip and beat her into insensibility. They told me he had been doing it for eight years, and that 1t was the only way he could keep her quiet. One night heard her screams and I went to investigate 1t. What saw made my blood run cold. The next morning had the father taken out into a pub lie place and beaten with his own whip by the presidents of the town and I served notice on him that every time he beat his daughter would beat him. That is one of the things that were charged up against me. I would like to ask a candid public whether or not that was cruelty and torture.
 AS to the charges that I shot wo- men and children, they are false lies out of the whole cloth. Why when I came away from Samar, the natives lined my route to the ship and they
 kissed my hands and feet in token of their regular for me. At my headquar- | ters I have a roonful of hats and trim
 kets which they made for me and in-
 sisted that should bring to America with me to keep them always in my mind. The district of Samar under my command was as much self-governed as Philadelphia is. I never interfered with their crude laws unless 1t was ne-
 cessary for their own good. fur
 and day and conducted the pupils to and from their homes. I stood behind | the civil authorities and upheld their
 hands in every way possible. Ask
 them if I was the Butcher of Samar.' "In China during the Boxer outbreak 1 it was my men who sheltered the Chi
 nese who asked for protection. No one was turned away, .s although knew
 that some of them were suspects, My
 men rescued a. Chinese father and
 mother and daughter who had been set
 upon by the soldiers of two other na-
 tions, and after beating off their as-
 sailants rescued the women from a
 pond where they were trying to com
 init suicide, and brought them to our
 headquarters. I have in my possession
 now a huge silk: umbrella which was
 given to me by the Chinese, whom
 befriended, and painted on itis an in l ecripfi0n If thanks k %s #E'a$ ''A
 "But in spite of all these things, l
 presume my fellow countrymen will al-
 ways refer to me as. the Butcher of
 Samar.' Philadelphia North Ameri- lean. ...