Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-03-16
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Our EXPLOIT in the Philippines.

our EEpIoit IN tne THibppIneSs
That Mount Daio battle" over which
there has been so much impulsive glori-
tication during the past three or four
days. does not seem to have made a
pleasant impression upon the thoughtful
and iudicious mind. No wonderl The
first flush of the hurrah having been dis
sipated by the clear white light of llumi-
nation, we begin to perceive that there
cannot very well have been much heroism
in an encounter which resulted in the
total obliteration of one of the parties
while the other party incurred no losses
worth mentioning. OF course. we deplore
the sacrifice of the twenty or thirty
American lives in any case and the sor-
row is all the more poignant in this par
ticular case since there seems to have
been no sort of warrant for the sacrifice
in question But no purely sentimental
considerations will affect the opinion of
the intelligent and enlightened. These
will always believe that the Mount Dajo
affair cannot be dignified with the name
of battle, but on the contrary deserves
the descriptive title of battae.
In the past, we have been greatly
given to disparaging criticism-and justly
so--of England's various massacres of
helpless, half-armed savages in Asia,
Africa, and elsewhere. Reading the mis-
cradle reports of so-called "engage.
ments," in which hundreds of 1.-THE
enemy" were slaughtered while the Brit.
ish losses were expressed in less than
three figures, we made no secret of oul
contempt and horror over butcheries sc
wanton and so fragrant. In the case OF
England, we have been at no loss tt
assign her exploits to their proper place,
in the chronicle of cruelty. Far removed
from the appetites and influences of tex
pansion," occupied with our own domes
tic problems and, as we innocently imag
ined, securely pledged to abstinence TO
all time, we were able to appraise Eng
lands conquests, forays, and piracies il
their true light, and to indulge the, alas
fotuous conceit, of our own superior vr
tue. Now, we have permitted ourselve
to trail in upon the same abhorrent path
n We, too, are conquerors, expanders. col
onizers. and benevolent assimilators. w
want to fling our battle line across tn
seas, to subdue unwilling peoples, and t
ram our commerce and our civilization
down the throats of alien races even
we have to do it with the bayonet. w
are no longer in a position to CRITICS
England. We have become, in fact. he
faithful if not abIect imitator. Histor
will bury us in one grave and write upo
the headstone the truthful epitaph. al
cades Ambo."
Why should those 600 Moros, includin
women and children, have been put
death: Even the official report of cours
attuned to glorious celebration, fails t
show the smallest reason for the .attacl
, The "hostiles indeed, they wer
more than frightened fugitives- had evi
J IDENTIFY sought their last remaining refuge
They were no longer in the field, suppos
, ing they had ever been. Nothing can b
J clearer than their attitude of terror an
, despair. Certainly, our authorities ha
no cause for alarm concerning them. CeI
tainly we could have afforded to leav
/ them in that forlorn fastness, Harmless
and wretched as they were.
: If there be any other just view of tn
incident, we should like to be made az
quainted with Washington Post.