The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-14
What, Again

The press reports OF wednesday morn
ing brought us the regular semi-annual
announcement Of the final extermina-
ton Of the insurrectos in Samar. 1t was
a little overdue and We had begun to feel
a certain yearning for that familiar and
highly priced contribution to our peace
of mind. All is forgiven. however, now
that the homing bird Of reinsurance
perches on our caves and twitters its
well remembered message TO yawning
ears and anxious hearts. We had main-
tanned the mien Of confidence despite all
circumstances Of encouragement. The
reward Of the faithful is ever precious
and delectable.
This time, it appears, the Pulajanes
have been consigned to everlasting 90
cultation by the Philippine constabu-
larry. Hitherto they have been erased,
cancelled and otherwise extinguished by
the regular troops. This constitutes
a pleasing and greatly needed variety
in once monotonous and tiresome chroni-
Gle. We think we ought to confess, in
deed. a distinct relief on hearing that the
Pulajanes had been at last disposed Of
In some new and therefore interesting
fashion. Ever since General LEONARD
WOOD rounded them up, soon after his
appearance in the Philippines, and
slaughtered six hundred or so of the con-
tumacious and irreclaimable rebels, we
have been reminded at stated intervals
that they had just been killed all over
again In the same way and through a
precisely similar agency. II was, Of
course, necessary that each succeeding
resurrection should be followed promptly
by another and a still more comprehen-
sive erasure; but the great American
people had begun to feel that they were
entitled to some sort Of novelty in respect
of the machinery of ~depopulation. More
over, speaking in the strictest conf
dence, we quite agreed with them.
Now comes the answer to that long
felt want. This time the Pulajanes have
been wiped out Of existence by the in
sular c~onstabulary. The engagement
occurred on December S, and without any
aid from the regular United States forces
the bandits" were once more dismissed
TO another and a better world. -Four
Pulajane leaders we're killed, leaving
only one important chief still at large.
Forty-three Of the discontinued have
found eternal peace, and General WooD
has ordered the troopers OF the Seventh
Cavalry to pursue those who have es-
capped, and, naturally, TO finish them
when found. Both the military and the
civil authorities nov predict an early
cessation of the present trouble, and Gov
ernor SMITH regards the end Of Pulajan-
ism as assured
1t is proclaimed further that General
LEONARD WOOD believes the insurgent
problem in Samar is solved; and nobody
can say that the General is inconsistent
herein, for this is exactly what he has
been proclaiming ever since he dawned
upon the archipelago. He admits that
several more small engagements in
Leyte" may be necessary before the
trouble there is finally settled; but this
of course, is intended in a purely Pick.
wickian sense, and means simply thai
the Pulajane g%raveyards will soon yawn
again, and that fresh achievements OF
extinction must be recorded.
The American people are peculiarly
susceptible to the charm of novelty, and
would be very glad, next time, to hear
that the Pulajanes had been extermi.
mated in some entirely fresh way.