Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-03-24
More Filipino Ratification.

More Filipino Pacifcation.
1t appears from the following excerpt
from the Washington Post Gndepend
enO of March Is that Notwithstanding
all the numerous assurances of the
complete and repeated pacifcation of
the Filipinos they still need some more
publication:
Acting Adjutant General Hall has re-
ceived the following cable from Major
General Wade, dated Manila March 10:
Major General Leonard Wood reports
an attack on a accommodating force east
of Cottabato by a strong party of Moros
made hostile by the passage of the anti
slavery law. The Moros position was
shelled and the Moros thanked and the
outworks taken They were strong and
well constructed. Cannon captured, TWEEN
ty-one old Spanish, thirty-three lantakas
also large quantities ammunition and sup
plies. No casualties on our side"
My venerable and vitriolic friend
General Charles Henry Grosyenor of
Ohio, the most rampantest Republican
of them all, to borrow the double SUI
perlative habit from the Bard of Avon,
gets red in the face and runs the i'm
minent risk of dying CT apoplexy every
time anybody asserts that slavery ex
lists in 1.-THE territory appurtenant to-
the United States and denies it bit
terly. Now, certainly no body of men
on earth are such idiots as to pass an
antislayery law unless slavery exists
The general would do well to recast
his opinions and to inform himself on
the subject. mo casualties on our
side" Wonder how many there We're
on the other side? If the Moros are
the fighters that they have been repre-
sented as being, how does it happen
that there were no casualties on our
side? OF course everybody is glad that
there were no casualties on our side,
but the episode or battle or whatever
anybody pleaseS to term it shows that
the pacifcation of the islands is not
complete and that we will have to
keep on pacifying them as long as we
hold them.
March IA Secretary Taft stated to a
congressional committee as follows:
1.-THE institution of slavery prevails
does General Grosvenor think of that?
Does he know Governor Taft and does
he not know him to be man of truth ?
1t will not do to deny facts which are
vouched for by men like Secretary
Taft.
On the same occasion Secretary Taft
expressed his establishment at the out
break of the Moros, set forth in the
above dispatch No doubt he really
thought the pacifcation of the islands
was complete and permanent, but it
seems that even wise man may be de-
ceived.
1t has been asserted over and over
again that we have not been paying
tribute to the Moro chiefs. If so, how
can any sane man explain the follow
ing dispatch sent by Secretary Taft to
Governor General Wright on the I'd
day of this very month
To Wright, Manila:
BY order of the president you are direct
ed to notify the sultan Of Suiu and the
dattos who signed the SO called Bates
treaty of Aug. 20, 1899, which was a mo-
dus vivendi and mere executive agree
ment, that in view of the failure on the
part of the sultan and the signing dattos
to discharge the duties and fulfill the con-
ditions imposed upon them by said agree
ment they nave forfeited all right to the
annuities therein stipulated to be paid
them and to all other considerations oN-
ing to them under the agreement that the
treaty is abrogated and held for naught
and that as residents of the Moro prov
ince in the Philippine archipelago they
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under the sovereignty of the United
States. Communicate this through Leon
ard Wood, governor Of the province of
Moro, and advise me of the acknowledge
ment of receipt and notification to the
parties.
Referring to telegram from this office of
the 30th of January, if action has been
taken under the same, it is approved and
should be Immediately communicated to
the sultan of Sulu and the other parties
as indicated above. The disturbances in
the island of Jolo make necessary speedier
action than was contemplated in the above
dispatch. TAFT.
Such a level headed man as Hon
William H. Taft does not do super
fiuous things especially when he has
to do them by cable 10000 miles away
and he would not talk about FORGETTING
annuities unless we have been paying
annuities. The Republican orators
would do well to haul in their horns on
that proposition also.
The dispatch of Jan. 80, to which Mr..
Taft referred. runs in this wise and
was sent by Mr. Secretary OF War
Elihu Root:
Recommendation Philippine commission