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A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR
The killing of 600 Moros, "trapped
In the crater of the volcano and all
killed" by our troops, who suffered a
loss of eighteen killed and fifty-six
wounded, however brilliant it may bo
as a military victory, is surely de
plorable as an incident of our at
tempted pacification of the Philip
pines. During the eight years nearly of our
occupation of theBe islands, bulletin
after bulletin, report after report, and
presidential messages in regular suc
cession have proclaimed that the war
was over and the trouble virtually
ended. Only last month the report of
the Philippine commission gave the
most encouraging accounts of the con
dition of Jolo, the scene of the slaugh
ter. A rebellious Datto and a renegade
Moro had been killed, together with
the most of their followers, and the
commission found the outlook in this
troublesome island "distinctly encour
aging." And yet now, apparently without the
knowledge of the war department that
serious trouble was apprehended, a
three days' fight occurs in which more
of the natives were exterminated than
were killed on both sides in our war
with Spain, and more, it is safe to say,
than were killed by the Spaniards in
any encounter with the islanders dur
ing the whole of their rule there. The
record of modern warfare contains few
such victories as that reported by
General Wood: "All of the defenders
of the Moro stronghold were killed.
The resistance was literally to the
death." No wounded, no prisoners.
"Wiped out," as Secretary Taft ex
presses it. And, says Major General
Wood, most modestly, "Brigadier Gen
eral Bliss and myself were present
throughout the action."
In an assault and attack involving
such difficulties and dangers as our
soldiers encountered on Mt. Dajo,
where "the artillery was lifted by
block and tackle for a distance of 400
feet and at an angle of sixty degrees,"
and the assaulting column scaled "fifty
perpendicular ridges, covered with a
growth of timber, strongly fortiflod
and defended by an invisible force of
Moros," it is impossible not to admire
the daring and, the doing of officers
and men. But this does not diminish
the pity of it, nor tend to give a re
assuring answer to the question
which it inevitably suggests: How
much longer?
The American people have sacri
ficed thousands of valuable lives and
sunk hundreds of millions of treasure
in the attempt to subjugate the inhab
itants of these islands and make them
believe that we have only their best
interests at heart. It is the testimony
of all competent and candid visitors to
the Philippines that it is a hopeless
task. Where they do not hate us,
they still distrust and dislike us.
They do not desire our civilization nor
assent to our rule. There is thus far
as little profit as glory in our Asiatic
adventure. The slaughter of 600 more
of our "wards" and the sacrifice of
more gallant soldiers are certain to
bring home more closely than ever
before the question of hastening the
time when we can "leave the govern
ment of the islands to their inhabit
ants," as we did in Cuba, under ample
guarantees of their freedom and inde
pendence. Boston Herald.
THE PEACE IN JOLO"
The treaty with Spain which saddled
us with the Philippines was signed
more than seven years ago. During
half of that period we have been as
sured that the war by which alone
we could "gain actual possession of our
theoretical dependency was "over."
Only last week Secretary Taft as
sured us that the Moros in particular
were quite pacified.'
Then came the news of the further
"pacification" of the Moros of Mount
Dajo. A population less than Water
bury, Conn., living in an island only
a trifle larger in area than Greater
New York, in their ignorance and in
their love of liberty set the power of
the United States at defiance. Six
hundred of them, perhaps nine hun
dred, were killed in a four days' bat
tled We are told that "woman and
children mingled with the warriors
during the battle to such an extent
that it was impossible to discriminate,
and all were killed in the fierce on
slaught." From their own viewpoint, which
we cannot either in fairness or in pol
icy disregard, there Moros died brave
ly in defense of their village homes
against a foreign aggressor. However
generous our plans for aiding them
might be how generous they really
are the repeated failure of a Philip
pine tariff reduction bill reveals we
can never aid the dead. We can never
convince six hundred or nine hundred
corpses that our ways are better than
their ways.
Can we convince the living? How?
And how soon? By more battles, by
more sickening effusion of blood, dur
ing another seven years, or twice
seven? The Spanish tried it for 500
years. The Dutch in Sumatra have
tried it for more than thirty. And
neither the Filiplnor nor the Achinese
have been convinced.
Are not Americann tiring of this
costly and demoralizing attempt at
methods as despotic as those of Rus
sia to conquer and to rule an alien
and resisting race? Do we quite enjoy
a situation which leads the president
of the United States to congratulate
our boys in blue upon "upholding the
honor of the American flag" by the
unsparing slaughter of women and
children? Is it possible that there is
no way for us to escape from this un
fortunate entanglement and to re
nounce the project of forcing our
civilization by the sword upon a. brave
people with whom we have no just
quarrel and no legitimate concern?
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