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General Wade. dated Manila. March 10:
Major General Leonard Wood reports
an attack on accommodating force east
OF Cottabato by strong party of Moros.
made hostile by the passage of the anti
slavery law The Moros' position was
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 yitriolic friend
General Charles Henry Grosvenor of
Ohio, the most rampantest Republican
Of them nll, 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 of apoplexy every
time anybody asserts that slavery ex-
lists In "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
antislavery law unless slavery exists.
The general would do well to recast
his opinions and to inform himself OH
the subject. mo casualties on our
side" Wonder how many there were
on the other side7 If the Moros are
the fighters that they have been repre-.
scented as being, how does 1t 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 1t shows that
the pacihcation 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
congressional committee as follows:
1.-THE institution of slavery prevails
wherever there are Moros." What
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 IRE
vouched for by men like Secretary
Taft
On the same occasion Secretary Taft
expressed his astonishment at the out
break Of the Moros, set forth in the
above. dispatch. No doubt lie really
thought the pacification 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 %
day of this very month:
TO Wright. Manila:
BY order Of the president you are direct
Cd to notify the sultan Of Sulu and the
dattos who signed the so called Bates
treaty Of Aug TO- 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
mont they have forfeited all right to the
annuities therein stipulated to be paid
them and to all other considerations ow-
Ing to them under the agreement. that the
treaty Is abrogated and held for naught
and that az residents Of the Moro prov
ince In the Philippine archipelago they
are subject to the laws enacted therein
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 once of
the 80th OF January, II action has been
taken under the same. 1t is approved and
should be Immediately communicated to
the sultan OF 6ulu and the other parties
| a. indicated above. The disturbances in
the island Of Jolo make necessary speedier
action than was contemplated in the above
dispatch. TAFT.
I Such level headed man as Hon.
William n. Taft does not do super.
duous 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
That Bates agreement with Moro be de.
clared no longer in force upon grounds
referred to in report OF the civil governo,
Y approved in principle. A statement de.
SssN
essary In consequence Of this abroEatior
and having recitals carefully drawn
should be prepared and passed to third
reading by commission and then forward.
% to the secretary Of war for his ap.
prevail In advance Of its enactment
| SO there you arel Two secretaries
OF war have declared in favor OF abro
eating something that never existed
Does any man with two ideas above
Hottentot believe that7
Seine Truth.
i 1t is really refreshing to find Re
publican editorial in a newspaper Of
any considerable influence and stand
ing which tells any truth whatsoeve
about the Democrats; hence 1t is witt
great pleasure that reproduce tn
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