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s 8 December 7, 1899. THE PHILIPPINE WAR An Akla Review by General Victor Vlf jmIb, from th Fall of Manila to tha Last Expedition. ditor Independent: From the sub Hubline to the red iculous, this baa been the condition of affairs for the last six teen months of our stay in the Philip- ninnM. On the 1st of May, 1898. we were In the sublime atacre. Our fleet had sunk the Spanish arms without the loss of man. and with peat slaughter among the Dons. But Manila had not yet fal len; Bonie 15,000 Span tarda still had the place and the flag of Castillo was float ing dellantly over the battlements. Dewey was powerless against these, and he sent for Aguinaldo, who came at once and was requested to invest Manila wilh his Filiuinos, and so he did. Thus, the Spanish garrison was bottled up. Ver; soon afterwards the place surrenders and the last vestige of Spanish sover eiirntv had vanished from the Philip pines, Aguinaldo was the recognized chief: he was so treated and so consid ered by Dewey and others; he deserved it But then came General Merritt and General Otis, and instead of allies, the Filipinos were forthwith looked upon as enemies. All this prior to tho treaty ol penile. When General Lee's army had sur endered and the prisoners had been par ried by General Grunt, President John son took exception to the liberal terms of the parole and requested the use of more drastic measures. General Grant told him that the conditions must remuin just as they had been granted at Appo niatox and the president receded. Dew ey should have told our commander of the'military forces at Manila ' those men have been umkI by me as allies; they have rendered signal service, and as huch they shall bo respected." And this is the difference bulw-en Grant and Dewey. Grant stood by his prisoners while Dewey helped to pass the gold brick to his allies. Some people call this treatment of the natives smart and fair; I call it decidedly scabby. Just now the Filipino army is disinte grated: so at least we are informed "officially;" and, if correct, wrought to rejoice; the hardships of our soldiery are at an end. I have my, doubts whether greater hardships ever were endured by any soldiery. Soldiers will notgrum ble because of hardships,, whether nec essary or not, when there is a good battle fought now and then; but this everlast ing skirmishing over rice fields, in mud or water, through the jungle and cane brake, under a torrid sun, hns no partic ular fascinations. Then, too. sickness. owing to the climate added new horrors to the situation. Our boys will soon be ia.iia uj movo into more doe in t camps and quarters, doiug garrison duty here and there, awaiting the pleasure of con gress, provided the president does not . spring up another grabbing and imper ialistic surprise by sending some 40,000 of them to China , to open some door or other in conjunction with the British, and the chances am ten to ono that this will tie the case, and very soon we may have Canton, China, as well as Canton, Ohio. Of the real condition in the Philippines me people More Know next to nothing; we have to take what the authorities give us. Otis sends dispatches and Charles Emery Smith, P.M. General, writes what he pleases to suit the re publican palate and dishes it over to the associated press as history. But taking it lor grantea mat Aguinaldo s army is disintegrated, what then; will the insur rection col lapso, or will a guerilla- war fare be the next act in the drama? Those Philippinos love independence and they will have it, or die. Aguinaldo whether a fugitive or not, may pass away, but the sacred tire of patriotism w.i ch has so strongly charactized "the little brown man," the Tommy Atkins of L uon, will live,and thereare hundredsof thousands of them. They will be more dangerous hereafter than ever before; they will not fire so many shots but every shot will count. I hope that good, sound American sense will prevail in congress, and give those men who have fought so bravely, and against such great odds, the independence they aspire to. If this congress does not the next will. And now we reach the rodiculous stage of affairs. Single handed, if we are to believe Otis, Aguinaldo is being chased by a half dozen l a jor generals, a dozen briga diers, and a struggling mob of boys in blue all running on after and over the other over hills and vVlen, across moun tains and rivers, in the mad endeavor to catch the ' president bf the Philip pine republic, Emtio Aguinaldo, whom I)ewey and Anderson ad ressed in June 1S58 as "Your Excellen cy," and who in turn and as is custom ary among Chiefs of State, addressed President McKinley as "Dear and well beloved Cousin;" the poor fellow did not know Bill then as well as he does now. It is a wild chase indeed as well as a crazy one, but it compares vrith the military talent of Otis, whoso strategy will forever remain misunderotood by the ablest military critics. General Otis has had all told fully 75,000 men in the Phillipines: he has now over fifty SOME BARGAINS -IN- NEBRASKA FARMS FOR SALE No. til. One of Lmicutr county' fluent farm, it) rn-n, gix tniln from Lincoln. 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If the insurrection is at an end, why submit high military dignateries to the disgraceful scenes that are now en acted; what are they going to do with Aginaldo if they catch him; who tells them that ho is ahead of them? No body knows; they are chasing a phan tom, and military strategy is made ridiculous. , Law ton, McArthur and Wheaton will often laugh over the clos ing scenes of the campaign in Luzon as managed by Major General Otis. The simple truth of the matter is: Give Aguinaldo the same resources as Otis had, and the latter would not begin to be a match for the former, notwith standing the fact that the American soldier is far superior to the Phillipino. They can say what; they please about Emilio Aguinaldo; with the resources at his disposal he has put up a good tight, young as he is. He fought for the same ideals as Washington, Boliver and Gomess have fought; to be sure he is not the peer of Washington, but neither were the others. The two latter won, as Washington has; but Aginualdo has for time being failed; ho may yet die for the independence of bis native land, but whether he does or does not, his name will live in tho history of his country for ever, as that of Washington will live in ours, and I hardly think that William McKinley's name will. He does not be long to tho same class. Victor Vikquin. Lincoln. Nob. To Cure a Cold In one Day. Take Laxative liromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2"c. NEWS OF THE WEEK. The despotism ' enthroned at the White House at Washington, has mad it almost impossible to get any news of the things most vitally effecting the American people. It will bo remembered that the reliable correspondents in the Philippines all signed a statement to tho effect that Olis had established a censorship much more effective than was over maintained by the Spanish in the Philippines and worso than that of Weyler in Cuba. They, declared that Otis had said that ho would lot nothing go that would hurt the administration. Now we are to feel the power of the cen sorship sad the destruction of the free dom of the press in the United Statos, All questions arising from the war in the Philippinos must be settled by the representatives of the people in congress assembled. But how are our represent ativos to decide intelligently if the facts of the situation in the Philippines are suppressed by a despotism in the White House? Not a word has come from any reliable newspaper correspondent in the Philippinos for dearly two weeks. We know nothing of the situation there ex cept what Otis, the appointee of the des pot in the White House, has been pleased to send us. He declares that the rebellion in the Philippinos has been suppiessed that Aguinaldo's army has beon broken up and is fleeing to the mountains in small bands. More than half a dozen times he has sent similar dispatches during the last year which every one now knows were false. Hut now the president asks con gress to decide the question of imperial ism, the change of our form of govern ment from the principle that all govern ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed to one in which this doctrine is discarded and adopt in its place the doctrine of government of foreign nations by force, and the infor mation that he submits to congress in support of that policy is the dispatches of his own military appointee, while all information coming from other sources is forbidden by a military order. It appears that "the man on horse back" to which so many references have been made during the last twenty years by the great thinkers, writers and schol ars has arrived. To ask the American people to decide a question when all in formation that would lead them to make a just decision has been suppressed by a military order, is just as despotic as to issue'a military order abolishing con gress and establishing a government bv a military dictator. Nothing of a free government by the people is left under such circumstances except a mere form. The people must know the facts before they can make an intelligent decision and the facts have been suppressed by a military dictator in the Philippines, ap pointed and sustained by William Mc Kinl;V After reading all the dispatches sent by Otia during the last week the Inde pendent does not change the opinion ex pressed last week. Even from these dis patches themselves it does not appear that the Philippines have been con quered. It U not claimed that more than 1,000 Filipinos have been captured. The operations have been all along the line of one railroad. The interior of the island has not been penetrated. There are million" of people in Luzon who have never seen an American soldier or beard the sound of - an American lean gun. There 1 are 6,000 Spanish prisoners still in the hands of the insur gents. There are American prisoners in their hands. Otis has no idea where Aguinaldo is. These are facts gleaned from his own dispatches, , The claim set forth by the great impe rialist dailies that tho insurgents in Lu- son have been conquered and that there is now nothing to do but annex the islands and set up a government has no foundation in the facts that have come from Otis himself. That island is as large as the state of Nebraska and con tains millions of people. Otis and his forces occupy less than one-tenth of it Yet the claim is made that the island is conquered and nothing remains but to set up a government and hereafter the inhabitants will peacably remain a sub ject people of the United States. This is not all by any means that this despotism in the White house is plan ning. The republican literary bureau is flooding the newspaper offices of the whole country with columns of matter advocating the annexation of Cuba. More than five columns of such stuff has been gent to the Independent in the last three days. The substance of it is that all the Cubans of any character or standing are demanding that the island shall be annexed to the United States and flerca onslaughts upon ths officers and men of the late patriot Cuban army. They are denounced as brigands, and claiming that the cry of "Cuba libre" is simply the cry of men who want to take to the woods and prey upon the towns and planters. Scores of extracts from imperialist papers are sent backing up these assertions. The bureau that sends out these things knows that the first intimation given by this government that the pledged word of this nation is to be vio lated the word that was given when congress declared that Cuba was and of right ought to be free, and that this na tion would mnke no attempt to annex tho island but would withdraw as soon as the island was pacified that that moment war would break out in every village, city and town. That is just what the despotism enthroned in the White House wants. That would give the ooportunity to nhout for the flag, cry traitor and copperhead, nnd forever establish e great standing army. The establishment of a great standing army is tho goal which the plutocrats, who are in complete control of this gov ernment mean to reach. It will be seen that the warnings that the populist press have been giving for the last ten years have not been based upon tho dreams of men with wheels in their heads, but were the sound conclu sions of sober, thinking patriots. In regard to the British war of con quest in South Africa, the English have already lost 4,000 men and have not yet crossed the Boer frontier, while the sturdy Dutch fighters have over run a large part of the British possessions and recruited their army by hundreds of Dutch farmers residing therein. Gen. Methun did not get across the Modder river and his "great victory" turns' out to be a repulse. It is said that the theaters ar.e almost deserted in London, so many of tho leading families are mourning for their dead who lost their lives in the fierce battles that have been fought already in this effort to follow the McKinley example in establishing "good government and ndvancing civili zation." The .latest dispatches, and they are a week old for the British con sor follows Otis' example not to allow any thing to go that would injure the administration, are to the effect that Mafeking is to be abandoned by the British and the close investment of Ladysmith renders it surrender pro bable. Russia is taking advantage of the British position and strengthening her position on the borders of India. Not much is said about it in the English press, but American correspondents re port great uneasiness in London on that subject The report of the Mexican minister of finance shows a most gratifying state of prosperity in that free silver country. A great reduction in taxation and large ly increahwl public improvements arc recommended. There is not a nation in the whole world that can duplicate the prosperity of free silver Mexico. The first uneouivocal dpmaml fnr im. perialism comes in the report of Secreta ry Root. This report is imperialism without disguise. 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