Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-19
HOW THE PILOT STEERED
Saw No Good in Hays Policy Until
 the Wind Changcd.

The Boston Pilot was as strongly I opposed to John Hays foreign policy as the Irish World, and kept up rur- ming fire of editorial criticism of the administration from, week to week, says the Gaelic News. No change had occurred in the attitude or policy of the administration towards anything in the world when suddenly the Pilot weered its course and sought anchor age in the republican harbor. Then, the Irish vote" having been secured, President Roosevelt gets the an nouncement made unofficially that John Hay has graciously condescend- ed to remain in the cabinet and keep | the rash president from running l.amuck or breaking away from the understanding between gentlemen which Joseph Chamberlain announced some time ago had been arranged be- tween Lord Salisbury and his Ameri- can lieutenant. Some utterances of the Pilot on the policy which it now approves and for which it guarantees the approval of Irish citizens afford another remarkable NeNannple of con sistency. 3aAA
 A PRIEST vICTIMvOF THE WATER
 CURE
 (From the Pilot, May 3, 1904.)
 Somebody has said of the water cure as practiced by American soldiers on the Filipinos that it is painful i'll its distension of the stomach, but not dangerous.
 Two men of Lynn, Mass, William IJaballe and Albert w. Bertrand, clerk of Company D, and regimental clerk at headquarters while the e26th reg1- ment was at Panay, have furnished some appalling evidence to the con- trary. M Laballe testifiesA to seeing the water cure applied to three natives till the blood came from their eyes and ears Three others were taken by Company D into a Catholic church at Aniloa for the water cure.
 Bertrand has given Senator Lodge the details of the murder, through the water cure, of Catholic priest, Faith CT Augustine, at Bolo.
 He was forcibly abducted in the dis guise of federal soldier, and i'm prisoned at Banate. He was turned over to the "water cure squadsf and tortured in the usual manner. He died on their hands. The men were sworn to secrecy, and buried him in the baseball ground.
 Pilot readers will remember General Bells orders to his subordinates to be especially suspicious of priests. La- balle declares that at Dungas in July, 1900, when out on hike" the men had orders to burn everything and let no grown person escape. General Smith claims that he was but carrying out Major General Chaf- fees orders, and Chaffee casts the re- sponsibility on the war department, whose formal or tacit approval he had.
 General Bell conducted "kill and burn campaign i'll the provinces of Laguna and Batangas, and had from Major General Chaffee, through Secre- tary Root, a congratulatory telegram from the administration on the success of his campaign.
 1.-The best government in the world'' is at the bar for the Cromwellian methods of Chaffee, Smith and Bell. Putting the fear of the Lord into the blood pumps of the misguided natives, by outrage, torture. rapine, sacrilege and murder is too Cromwellian for the twentieth century, even when the ''in- ferior races' are the subjects of this expression of our proposed benevolent assimilation policy.