The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

station to ask for help. Two or three
miles away. a wounded soldier called to
me. Before / could reach him, a party
Of Pulajanes killed him with a spear.
They followed me for a long distance-I
would get a sight of them now and then
among the trees-and 1 wondered why
they didn't murder me as well.
Back Among the SayaEes.
1T was two days before I reached the
| telephone station. could have covered
| the distance in five hours had been
strong and well. Help came and I re-
\ turned to the village where the attack
\ had occurred. No slaughter followed,
| however A few natives were executed
| because they had committed horrible
| crimes among their own people They
| were shot merely as a matter of disci-
pline. Other natives were put in prison.
| But In each instance justice was done
and the Pulajanes acknowledged that the
men who were shot deserved death. and
| that those We put in prison ought to he
locked up. There were many battles in
| Samar. however, before We convinced
the inhabitants that We meant what we
! said. and under all circumstances would
give them everything that belonged to
them.
The Pulajanes arc brave and savage
D.
of them had guns. About 500 of our SOL
diers were killed before the insurrection
was quelled. We not only conquered, but
we proved to the heather that some CIV
iliZed men, at least, are neither liars nor
swindlers. Yet wrong notions were prev
alent in the United States concerning
our methods in the Philippines. Amer
lean soldiers were described as butchers.
Several OF our generals were pictured as
ha m IA mic
mic, confess, but it was as humane as
any ever fought and no unnecessary
blood was ever shed.
The semi-civilized Filipinos had been
shamefully dealt with for centuries by
their Christian fellow-countrymen Arson.
murder, robbery, and casting men and
women into slavery were everyday oc-
currences. We had to meet, therefore,
race of people made fanatical by
cruelty and all the brutal forms of op-
preston. And though We were greatly
Outnumbered, we always fought like the
soldiers of civilized nation.
A story of "FightInE Jack" Hayes.
Gen. Jack Hayes was buried the
other day at Arlington Cemetery
Fighting Jack. as he was known during
the civil war and the later wars we had
With the Indians. He was a great cav
Airyndn, ana i mad the honor to serve
with him on an expedition through five
Philippine provinces. He entered the
army away back in 1853 as a drummer
boy, serving under Fitzhugh Lee, then
a second lieutenant. fresh from West
Point Academy. Lee NS.s.1ered of in
the woods one morning, and IN Indian,
springing on his back, crushed him to
the ground and raised his toll ahawk.
While the Indians arm was in the air
little Jack Hayes put bullet through
his head. That's the way Jack started
as a soldier.
well, commanded troop of cavalry
on the expedition of which have
spoken. Two of our men, during the
march, set fire to a Filipino village Just
as we were going away. We galloped
back and put the fire cut. Then Jack
Hayes began an investigation. The two
guilty men were discovered and it took
some of us officers a day and a half of |
hard pleading to save their lives. Gen.
Hayes was determined to have them |
shot, holding that our own soldiers |
should be patterns, there among the
heather, of moral and generous conduct