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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- FRIDAY, JULY 21', 1809.
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FCRANTON, JULY 21, 1S99.
Senator riatt's statement, In another
place, Is worth reading for both mat
ter nnd manner. The Bentlemnn from
New York certainly wields an effect
ive pen.
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The D., L. & W.
l'"or lessons which have frequently
bcn piesviitod In these columns "ml
wMeh are- obvious to all acquaint!
With the enily history of the Delawaie,
Lacl.r.vvanni and Western railroad, the
lieople oi' S.'ianton feel a peculiar nl
thoURh inoiicslve sense of prapt letor
slilji l)i this tjreat stcel-Rlrt highway;
Hnd tlu iecpnt revolution In Its man
ns ment eeimlnfr so swiftly and woik
Inp to completely a disruption ot old
condition1? and traditions, not un
natuially threw the community Into a
daze.
As this sensation of surpiise wore off,
the force of tradition In some quarters
nsseitod Itself In tho form of doubtful
prophecies and doleful comparisons. It
Is nlvny thus after an Innovation. It
became thi fear of these conservatives
that the now deal mtelit mean a kind
of malicious eclipse of Scianton. tint
our community, which had so Iohr felt
that it owned tho ro.id, might awaken
some fine morning to find Itself con
veited Into an Inconspicuous way sta
tion, at which the haughty minion" of
the Vandtrbllt and Pierpont Morgan
lnteiests would make contemptuous
faces as they passed bv.
We- il'i not suppose that these feais
were held Sfilously, In their hearts the
people that voiced them must havo
known hotter. Yet the undeniable c!r
cumstunce that there has existed In
conhoquuiee of this change more or
less general uneeitainty It not uneasi
ness prompts us now to call attention
to the fatt Mint the presence among U3
Df Mi Tiuesdale and his vniloiu newly
Installed lieutenants has bt-en followed
as jet bv none of the vaguelj antici
pated disasters; on tho contraiv, we
hue found them couiteous, business
like and well-Informed gentlemen,
whose Ideas of their duties and mis
sion, so fir as we can glean, appear
to be founded on a good quality of in
telligence and common sense. To be
sure, they are not In business for theli
health, vet so far as our Infoimatlon
goes they have shown no disposition to
bo mean oi little; their policy appar
ently looks tow aid a liberal i elation
ship between the company and Its
woikmen and between olllceis of the
road and Its pations along the line. It
is true they hae some notions of tall-
roadlng which depart fiom the tiadl
tlons of the Delawnre, Lackawanna
and Western, but befoio condemning'
these It seems to us that It would be
Just to let them have a lair tilal.
If a deduction may be hazarded from
what has alieady taken place under the
Tiuesdale regime, we venture to pre
dict that those w ho are expecting It to
bring up in failure will be disappointed.
It is no more than just that the Thir
teenth regiment should be perpetuated
In name in this eltj, whcie it has al
leadj perpetuated Itself In fame.
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The Atiminlstiation's View of the
Manila "Round Hobin."
(Editorial In Philadelphia Press )
The lapse of t.o days since the com
plaint of the correspondents at Manila
has done much to modify the momen
ta r Impression It created. It Isn't nec
essaiy to question their slnceilty or
good faith. Hut two things have led
to a revision of the first judgment. In
the first place, other and weightier-evidence
has discredited their repusenta
tlons on the vital points. In the second
plaee, u moie caieful examination of
their statement has shuwn its weak
ness in lesser but characteilstlc mat
ters. Tho weight of authoilty is ugalnst
tlm Oenetul ntls may be passed by,
Us he Is under question. Cut Piesldent
Schuinmn of the Philippine commission
sustains and corroborates his view.
Colonel Denby of the Mine commission
has telegraphed liice the conespond
ems' statement that Geneial Otis' 10
port of June JO gives a corrcet account
"f tho situation. Colonel Denby has
had twelve years' experience ns minis
ter to China. Is thoroughly familiar
with Oilental character and condi
tions and Is well qualified to judge uf
the facts General Anderson, who was
referred to by tome of tho correspond
ents as having clashed with OH,
states the exact facts, speaks strongly
In favor of the commander and shows
lhat some of the allegations against
him are absolutely unfounded. Gen
eral Harrison Gray Otis, who fought
under him but Is now out of the ser
vice and entirely free to speak, sup
ports the same judgment. Wheie It Is
a question of fact, are not all theso
men likely to bo as well Informed as
the correspondents? Where It is a
Juestlon of opinion and really the
(travamen of the charge Is only a
question of opinion are they not like
ly to be us good judges?
Then the statement Itself, when It
comes to be analyzed, is Inheiently
weak. What aio tho speclilcatlons?
Suppression of "the number of heat
prostrations In tho field" that Is, of
Iho correspondents' hearsay stories,
when the nfllclal reports were going
lorwaid. "Systematic minimization ot
naval operations" that Is, the corre
spondents complain for tho navy when
the navy makes no complaint for itt-elf
This Is little less than ludicrous. Tho
navy makes Its own reports, and navy
officers aio nbundantly able to take
taio of themselves. "That volunteers
Ire unwilling to engage In further ser
rlce," Why send a challenge ot reports
n this point as late aa July 11 vvhon
the whole country knew what volun
teer vvcm coming home and what had
enlisted for fusUier service? It was no
longer a matter of dispute, but ot
record. These nro some of the weak
points.
Thiee months ago tho Associated
Piess, through ItH representatives,
complained of the censor nt Manila,
und asked thnt a particular ofllcer
might be detailed to that duty. Thft
order was Immediately given, and tho
olllccr assigned to the work. The As
sociated Press named Its own censor.
Hlnce then thcrchas been no complaint,
so far us we know, until this "lound
robin" came. The tonoiship has
probably been moie rigid than free
handed coi respondents liked, but sen
Bible people, will doubt very much
whether it has dellbeintely discolored
the truth. Especially when It la coup
led with the statement that tho ofllclal
reports have designedly deceived the
people, will thinking, sober-minded
men hesitate to accept It.
There has undoubtedly been no little
Impatience with tho prolongation ot
the Tngal conlllct. That is the tem
peramental lestlveness of many peo
ple. It cried "On to Richmond" In 1SG1
and led to Hull Hun. It cried "On to
Havana" last year and didn't see that
there was u better wav. It comes out
a. i right In the end, when the lesult Is
reached which Its patriotic but Im
pulsive and Impatient splilt desires.
General Otis und the Philippine cam
paign will be judged by lesults. It
the at my shall be properly strength
ened, If with the renewal of the
fighting shoit, sluup and decisive work
shall be made of it, the criticisms of
the hour will pass Into oblivion. The
country has a light to expect the
president to make sure of such a con
clusion, and It will not be disappointed.
The change in svstem announced
with reference to Moses Taylor hospi
tal, wheieby the admission of pilvate
patients for pay will bo discontinued
and the lice privileges of the hospital
extended to the families of all now
eligible to admission, commends itself
as being in the line of the intentions
of the institution's noble founder.
"An Enemy of His Country."
The lines between Bryanlsm and
antl-Bryanlsm in the Democratic party
ate lapldly bhapliifr themselves and
soon that party will bo in the throes
ot a determined civil conflict. Tho split
between Altgeld and Carter Ilairlson
In Chicago is one Indication, another
is supplleel In the thoughtful edltoiial
In which the Philadelphia Heeord, ad
mittedly one of the ablest tribunes of
Demociacy In the United States, yes
terday pronounced Mr. Bryan "an ene
my of his countiy."
This editorial began by calling at
tention to the recent extraordinary
change which had como over the econ
omic situation in tho United States
among other countries, whereby the
problem of tho uges how to produce
enough to Keep mankind from staiva
tlon has ceased to perplex and In Its
place has aiiben the problem of what to
do with the glow lug surplusage In pro
duction It went on to point out that
this new pioblcm, s-o far fiom calling
for a progi amine of confiscation andl
spoliation, called rather lor more
equitable dlstilbutlon, and It pioceed
ed: "Legislation on the subject of trusts
is sadly needed Is Imperative If wo
aie to suivive as a fiee people, and
yet It ih plain that it alone will not do,
and that we could better do without it
than have any moie of the foolish and
wicked Kind alieady enacted by many
of the Western states. In some ot
these states It has been provided that
th people may legally become mora!
thieves, and need not piy foi what
they have honestly received if It Ii.im
merely been seemed from a very big
concern or combination. Such legisla
tion will accomplish nothing but the
rotting out of the moral sense of the
people.
"It lb also far from plain whether the
formation of gieat concerns Industries,
combinations, what you will should be
prohibited, or whether the best course
of tho community would not be their
pioper icgulatlon Co-opeiation be
tween men is not mciely civilization It
Is Christianity; and he is a bold man
who feels that he can safely check It
even though it become wholes-lie. Tho
present maivelous prosperity of tho
United States certainly largely comes
irom their Increasing exports of mer
chandise, und these aro largely made
possible by the fact that in co
opeiation e have feo far sui passed the
world that in many lines wo can pay
better wages and yet undoisell all
competitors. It must be, therefore,
apparent that a political party which
should carelessly undertake a solutlem
of this Intricate and novel situation
might bring about a degree of suffeiln;;
which would hurl It fiom power for
years."
The Itecord In somo detail shows
how the wot st danger fiom tho modern
tendency toward Indu.stilal combination
comes through tho enormous power
which it ocntrullzes In tho hands of a
few men at the head of these combina
tions, a power which, when used uu
sciupulously, to debauch leglslatuies or
seize upon valuable public lights with
out adequato public compensation,
gives rise to evils of a most far-reaching
nature: and it concludes:
"It must bo admitted that to find
solutions for the Industrial problems Is
the greatest need of the hour If our He
public Is to bo safeguaided and our
people to prosper; that theso prob
lems are not merely tho paramount
and all absoiblng Issues, but that they
are so vital as to make all others triv
ial. And yet tho acknowledged leader
of the party which (by reason of being
out of power) Is best situated to take
them up feailetsly, discuss them hon
estly and solve them thoroughly con
tinues to distress and dlv lde that party
by Insisting upon pushing to the front
a single Issue of no great Importance,
founded upon fallacies, and which to
many who agiee with him on much else
seem3 tank dishonesty. It is an Issue
which the people spurned even in their
distress, and one which they will as
certainly spurn aguln if It shall bo
fotceil upon them In the prosperity
which has followed their wise decision.
I'or such an ifbuo the whole future of
the people of this country Is to be en
dangered, and tho real party of tho
people (anxious, more than anxious, to
unite and win) again divided and again
defeated. Mr. Bryan may be a loador,
but he certainly has proven himself a
fanatic, and, vvc believe (however un
intentionally), his country's worst en
emy and his party's destroyer, Tho
people must sooner or later realize this,
nnd ho will be more nltterly opposed
than ever before, us certainly as the
pun rlfes."
We take Isitie with our contempor
nrv's assertion that the party now out
of power Is best situated to take up
fearlessly the problems It outlines; on
the contrniy, the very fact that that
pjrty willingly follows a leader like
Uryiin and Is committed to the Populls
tic excesses which the Hecord notes as
characteristic of miie-hi of tho anti
trust legislation put on the statutes
books of tho Western states by Demo
cratic Initiative establishes, In our
opinion, its radical unfitness for addi
tional power. Hut be that ns It niuy,
we commend tho Record's general ar
gument to the nttentlon of our Demo
ciatlo f i lends who look upon Mr. Bryan
as their party's greatest apostle. It U
a plctme every feature of which bears
tho Impress of unmistakable truth.
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While there Is no disposition to pur
sue young Mollneaux unfairly, the sec
ond Indictment of him for mutder will
tend to rested o the public confidence In
tho Integrity of the courts which was
unsettled by the auspicious manner In
which tho first indictment was evaded.
If this young swell Is guilty neither
hl3 fathers wealth, his lamlly's aocial
position nor tho nullifications In high
life of the scandals connected with his
case should be permitted to shield him.
Colonel Hawkins, of the Tenth Penn
.sjlvanla, will soon bo In position to
shedjllght on Philippine subjects, and
If it Is tiuo that he was on Otis' black
list on account of his short-cut meth
ods of caring for his command ho ought
to be willing to shed It, without fear
or favor. Tho people will support their
government until perdition freezes but
In the meantime they have a right to
know the facts.
Tho Rochester Democrat and Chron
icle sees In the developments of the
past few weeks signs that "a wide
and deep consphacy is on foot to dis
credit and overtlnow the Republican
administration at any cost of national
honor or national welfare." If thero
Is such a conspirtey it will fail. Com
mon sense will kill It.
Piesident Cannon of the. Salt Lake
Mormons has pleaded guilty to a charge
of polvgamy and expects to escape with
a small tine. Utah, we fear, got state
hood on false pretences.
If dogs have to be muzzled, It might
far better be on the tall than on tho
head. We trust that the legality of the
tall muzzle will soon be established.
In spito of the honor and money In
it, there does not seem to be a stam
pede of applicants for Algol's job.
If not Roosevelt, why not Leonard
Wood !
THE WAR CORRESPONDENT.
S. U. Kiscr In Times-Herald.
Tho great war correspondent was pro
voked that was plain at a glance.
"Ah, general," he said somewhat Irrita
bly when tho commander of the American
forces appeared before him, "you havo
kept mo waillnj:'"
"I beg a thousand pardons," tho cf
llccr answeied. "As I was abouc to hurry
hero In rosiionto to your summons the
enemy appealed In forco end made us
run all ovei three counties before ho fin
Mi escaped after suffering a heavy lo.-s.
This tendered it Impossible for mo to pr
sent mj self as early us I would otherwise,
have done "
"Very well, very well," tho great war
ocrrespondent answered; "I huppose ou
are blameless but don't let It happen
again I sent for jou this morning to
leain why jou censored my dispatch last
night I wrote that jou reminded mo of
an incompetent, fussy old woman, that
jou might bo all light as an cleator boy
or as a llagman at somo railroad cross
ing, but that you wero wholly unlit to
command an armj You cut that out,
thus robbing my paper of a sensation of
which It is very much In need at this
time.
"Also, T wrote that the enemy had jou
practlcnlly surrounded, that jour troops
were demoralized, that jou were not re
porting a quarter of tho deaths, thit
j'our armv was doomed to utter nnnihlla.
Hon .and tint you had been svstematlc
ally suppressing tho truth That woull
have given my papei the chance of a
lifetime. It eould havo printed that
part of my dispatch In largo tvpe and
cteatcd a sensation throughout tho whole
civilized world That s the kind of bluff
I was sent over heio to get. Yet when
I went to the cablo ofllce this morning
and asked for mj copj- I found that j'ou
hid inn tho blue pencil through nil my
sensational btatcments. This is intoler
able YWiat havo jou to say for jour
self' "Nothing," the general humbly replied
"I am forced to confess that vou havo
found mo out. I must throw mv&elf on
j'our merev."
Tho gieat war eoi respondent waved
him away with an lmpitlent gesture,
saving"
"What do jou think this war Is being
foujrht for. nnvhovv? If jou aro going
to keep on subduing nntlvcs without lie v.
Irs jour armies killed in ambush or
wlpul out by disease what will there bo
In It for my jellow shed? 1 ought to lun
jou oft this Island without any fuither
oomlderatlon, but I shall content mjMf
for the present with ordering the govern
ment nt Washington to appoint j-our
hiiecess-o; nt once.'
Signifying by a sign that tho audience
was nt an end, the great war correspond,
cut then permitted tho general to pro
ceed with his campaign.
ROUGH RIDING.
For Tho Tribune.
If, perchance, on an evil day
You mount your wheel to speed away
O'er a Scianton street, and all ulone,
Hid farewell to the folks at home,
If tho devil don't get jou, a policeman
will,
As jou jog along on level or hill;
Tor tho dog and tho bike nro condemned,
jou Know,
Slnco tho powcra that bo havo made It so.
Talk of tho chaige up Sun Juan's HI11--"lis
nothing compared to a Serantou spill,
In u Scianton hole on an asphalt pave
To test a. wheel and show who's brave.
Hut there'j nothing llko It In tho land
I'or a (Sirlstlan man with n steady hand
To ride thioush towp on a high gcattd
wheel
Wrcckless, and caielcss how jou feel.
Flock cut shoit or long coat tall
'TIs all the s.imo at tho end of the swnll
Spattered with mud or covered with 'uat
Illdo jou may but tumble you must.
Into the holes or into tho ditch,
Over tho cobbles jou will plungo and
Pitch,
Hut keep to your wheel and don't let go
Tor the city of Serantou made them eo,
-C, II. Sopcr.
Scranton, July SO.
WAR RECORD
IMPREGNABLE
Concluded from Pago 1.
of them was to light and defeat the
Spaniard? at Manila, nntl nt the time
when the president dictated the lan
guage of the pcaco protocol tho Amer
ican urmy tood confronting the Span
ish Intrenchments.
It became Immediately necessary for
our government to define its Philippine
policy, but tho pre-aldcnt was not to bo
forced Into Inconsiderate action. As to
e'uba and Potto Rlrti, ho had made up
his mind, and the Trench nmbnssador
was informed that a treaty of peace
could be negotiated on the baslt t the
sin render of Cuba to us and to tho
Cuban people, nnd upon tho cession of
Porto Ulco nnd Guam, and, as for the
Philippines, tho president said that wo
would take and hold the bay, harbor
and city of Manila "ponding- the con
clusion of the treaty," nnd that the
tienty should "determine the contiol,
disposition and government of tho
Philippines." 4
A New Aspect.
Tn agreeing to this arrangement as
the basis of n peace conference, Spain
made It her duty to withdraw her
forces from tho city of Manila and
give room for ours. But the cablo fiom
Hong Kong was not then In working
order, and before tho terms of tho pro
tocol could be communicated by Spain
to nor lorces and by us to ours, a bat
tle had occurred, and at great expense
of blood nnd treasure wo obtained by
foice what the pioloeul had peacefully
conceded This did not niter tho terms
upon which the peare eommlssloners
were Instructed to piepnre a tteatj.
but It put a now face on the situation
both hete and at Manila It hid an
Immedlnto and very obvious "ffect upon
the attitude of the American people
toward the future of the islands It
materially affected, moreover, the po
sition of the Insurgent Tugals. It em
phasized and Increased our moral re
sponslbillty for the preset vallon of or
der If the terms of tho peace pro
tocol the Spaniards had quietly march
ed out of Minlla and we had quietly'
mnirheel In, the two forces each in Its
full strength peacefully avvnltlng tho
conclusion of the negotiations at Paris,
we might perhaps have withdrawn
fmm the Philippine Islands with dig
nity and without the Impairment ot
International obligations But, having
beaten the Spaniards, having scattered
theli aimv. having destroyed their au
thority ovei the 1'hlllpplnc people, and
having forclblj- plaeM ourselves In
their stead as a government, th" status
quo became Impossible of restmatlon,
and from that moment the withdrawal
of the Ameiloan armj' and navy would
hav e meant tho abandonment of tlm
Irlands to utter anaichj", mlseiy and
misrule.
Policy Shaped.
This view compelled the course that
was taken by our commissioner nt
Paris, and it loudlj Justified the presi
dent In having assembled so consider
able a force at Manila His power to
add to the force was now gone The
question of the future of the Philip
pineswhether thej- should belong to
Spain or to the United States had
passed into the hands of the peace
commission. And, of course, neither
country was at liberty to change the
conditions until tho peace commission
had acted and its action had been ap
proved. Further expeditions of men to
the Philippines would have been a
plain violation of the terms of the pro
tocol But If that wholly suillclent
leason had been wanting, there was
another, and this other Involved the
most trying and troublesome condition
with which the government has hail
to contend. The men then under arms
nnd avnllable for use whether In the
Philippines or in the West Indies, had
all been enlisted for the peilod of the
war. By tho terms of their enlistment
they were free of every obligation to
the government upon Its proclamation
of peace The president knew, better
than any one else, that peace was as
sured, and that all his soldiers, not
only those who stood ready to go to
the Philippines, hut the twenty thou
sand then there as well, were bv law
to be mustered out of the service on
tho Instant when he made official an
nouncement that the Spanish war was
over.
"On April 20, 1S9S. the Joint resolu
tion was passed recognizing tho Inde
pendence of Cuba It directed the
president to emploj- the land and naval
forces of the United States to accom
plish the expulsion of Spain from Cu
ban soil. At that time the American
army consisted of 27,005 regulars Two
days later the volunteer act was passed
and four days after that the law was
passed enabling the president to In
crease the regular army But both
these measuios were distinctly de
clared to be war measures Both re
quired that the enlistments secured
undei tlu.ii should terminate with the
return of peace In these provisions
the acts wero peremptorj" and specific
No discretion whatever was peimltted
to the government. Under the terms
of the regular armj bill, 3S.O0O regulars
were added to the 27,000 who composed
the armj In times of peace With
these and with the volunteers, tho
government had a much larger foice
than turned out to be necessary for
the purposes of the war with Spain:
but after the peace protocol had been
signed, not a man of them eould be
used In the Philippines more than the
forco then there.
Conflict Not Toreseen.
And who could then foresee that
this forco was not sufficient? A con
flict with the Filipinos was not then
anticipated Their aimj-. It Is true,
had been assembled on the outskirts
of Manila But with respect to the
Americans It was generally supposed
to be a friendly lather than a hostile
aim j-. Its leadeis had been aident
with the nssuianees of their friendship
and conlldencc. They had pioclalmed
a republic, to be suie, and had assert
ed a government, but theie was noth
ing In the attitude they then assumed
which could Justify the belief that their
guns were going to bo aimed at the llag
which had set them free. Hven had
the president been at liberty under the
terms of tho peace protocol to lncieaae
the Philippine at my, nnd even had the
men, available for service there, been
leady for tiansportatlon, no wise coun
sellor would havo advised sending
them. Indeed, the veiy thing that
brought on the conflict with Agulnaldo
was tho dispatch of a small forco In
tended to take tho place of those whose
teims of enlistment had expired, and
who had already been brought home.
Fiom the hour when congress as
sembled In December the president en
deavored to dtaw Its attention to the
situation In which the government
would be left upon the pioclamatlou
of peace. In one message ho delivered
to the senate the treaty In another
he warned congiess that as soon as
the tieaty was latlfled and tho tatlflca
tlons exchanged he would be compelled
to muster out the troops at Manila
An aimy bill diawn In conformity
with the government's views was al
ready prepaied and was urgently
piesseel upon congress Tho countrj
will lemeinber the bitter opposition to
It encountered from the Demociutlo
part j'. Democratic members who did
not dare to assume tho responsibility
of defeating tho peu'e treaty, who
would not even consent to take the le
sponBlblllty of opposing the acquisition
of the Philippines, ariayed themselves
with tho rest of their partv against
tho in my bin. The Demociatlc leaders
In both house and senate had a bo.
wllderlnu haidlhood to dechuo that
tho Inci eased forces asked for woio
going to bo employed not in Manila
but here In our own country. They
were not needed In Manila, these lead-
1 ers said, and they actually argue.!
that the administration was using the
unlikely meanco of a war In tho Phil
ippines as a means ot extorting from
congress an enormous rcgulnr urmy
for the suppression of liberty at homel
It may surprise Intelligent persons to
know thnt this sort ot talk could bo
Indulged In upon the noors of congress,
but thero were weeks and weeks ot It,
nnd meanwhile tho Insurgents were
gathering an army of 30.000 men, wero
glowing mure nnd more belllgoient In
their attitude, and every day brought
neater the time when peace with Spain
would bo proclaimed and tho govern
ment be left without a legal claim to
the service of any single soldier at
Manila,
Tho Army Bill. .
It was the 2d of Mnreh before con
giess passed the Aimy bill, nnd tho
war in tin- Philippines had been going
on for four weeks. When the country
considers this fact, and realizes that
the 20,000 Ameilenn troops then at .Mil
ilia had been assembled there', not, at
all In anticipation of a campaign
against the Filipinos, but wholly and
solelj for tho purpose of defeating the
Spanlaids, and that the president had
been told by no less an authority than
Admiral Dewey that for that purpos"
5,000 men would be sunk-lent, surely
his foieslgnt nnd good Judgment will
be ovei J where npproved. Battle after
battle was fought, and every battle
won And now, when nt last the au
thoilty he sought fiom congress was
conferred, not In the form he sought It,
but In the fashion of a compromise,
here was the unexampled task that was
set before him. He had at once to re
duce un army of C',000 regulars to an
nrmy of 27,000, mustering out 38.000
men, he had to enlist an equal num
ber of regulars to take tho places of
those mustered out; ho had to organize
the new leguluts, to provide tianspor
tatlon for them to Manila, to transport
back the army then there, and at Mi"
same time and nil the while to prose
cute tho wai This is what he has
been doing during the last four months.
The now Aimy bill was not what the
piesident wanted, but it gave him per
mission to i-ilse a legulnr army of C3,
003 men nnd also to raise a volunteer
aim of 3,",00O men and to keep them
until July 1, 1901. Under the terms ot
this act, -15 000 regular have already
been enlisted, and have taken tho
places of an equal number of men who
have been formally musteied out. Ten
now regiments of volunteers are now
organizing Gen. Otis has been sup
plied alieady with 22,000 reguluis hav
ing two yeais of service befoio them.
And all tho while the nghtlng In Luzon
has been maintained with the result
already descilbed in this statement.
What more eould bo asked or expected?
What possible criticism can be passed
upon the Intelligence or the foiesight
with which these difficult and compli
cated affalis have been conducted?
What, indeed can bo said except In
warm and generous praise both of the
admlnlstiatlon at home and of the
army abroad?
Tioops for Otis.
On June 21 tho tiansport Sheridan
sailed fiom San Francisco with 1,801
men, the Valencia sailed on Juno 20
with GOO more, the Pennsjlvanla sailed
on July 1 with 1,300 more, the Para
sailed on July 12 with 1,000 mote, and
the Tartar Is due to sail on July 22
with still another thousand. Threq
now regiments of volunteer Infantry
nre In process of organization at Ma
nila, and the ton home regiments will
be ready by the middle of August. So
that by the end of the lalny season,
and as soon as troops can bo- used,
General Otis will have a fully equipped
and effective force of not less than
40,000 rren, and 10,000 more will be
ready for departure In case they are
requited.
It may be true that If on Feb. 5,
when the Insurgents nndo the first at
tack, we had then had, pioperly dis
persed through Luzon island, such an
army of occupation as will be there In
tho fall, the rebellion might bo now
much nearer Us end than it seems to
be. but the facts which I have bilefly
recited show, first, that tho piesident
had no right, in honor and good faith
with Spain, to Fend to the Philippines
one single man moie than was there
or on his way there when tho peace
protocol was signed last August, nor
until the ratifications of the tieaty of
peace wc-ie exchanged on April 11. On
that day the Philippine Islands be
came the property of the United States
The facts show, second, that lie could
have sent to tho Philippines, assum
ing that the obstacle of good faith
w 1th Spain had been removed, onlj
a body of men whose enlistment ex
pired with the proclamation of peace,
nnd whose dlspetch out of the coun
try was consequently of no avail The
facts show, third, that he had assem
bled, while the light to do so was still
existent, an nimy much larger than his
mllltaij- advisers thought necessary,
and largo enough as tho event has
pioved, to maintain our position and
greatly to extend our authoiltj-. And
tho facts show, fouilli, that inee ihe
pioelnmatlon of peace with Spain and
the passage ot the new law the presi
dent Is now possessed of an aimy with
two j-ears of service to run, ainvb"
competent, as he and his advisers be
lieve, to bring nbout the pacification
of the Islands.
Theie Is nothing for which any Amer
ican need apologize In this record. It
Is a lecord of consistent nnd unpar
alleled success, a nucces that began
with tho message to Dewej'- "Go nnel
destroy the Spanish fleet In Manila
liny," and that will not end until tho
possessions which dutjr nnd foituno
have confided to our caie and tlrmlj
advanced on the high road to peace
and ptospeilty.
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