Show WAR BY It is I said that in this country have been overshooting the mark Everything of a fair and friend friendly ly nature from the United States tends to reassure the Filipinos and causes Cause many of them to conclude that perhaps they can pan trust the people of this re republic republIc republic public to be kind and considerate in the relations between them themOn themOn themOn On the th other hand every rabid as assault assault assault sault upon them by administration toadies who are trying to kill l two birds with one on stone to please the president and prolong the war for partisan pur purposes poses causes the islanders to misjudge the temper of the American people and to fight with redoubled desperation One waver of tha bloody shirt shrIeking for war and shouting for vengeance will do more damage and provoke more bloodshed and arouse more hatred than all the missionary work of priest or soldier can counteract t in sIx sis months Even tho the temperate but declarations of designing imperialists have a that direction eral Otis admitted this when he blue penciled message before he allowed it to circulate among them And now the Boston Herald a gold on organ says Reports have bees been received roc from Ma Manila Manilo nila nilo to the effect that thet printed copies of ot Senator Be speech spee h or extracts from that speech have been put in circulation lation among the thA Filipinos in order to I lead them to continue to resist the armed forces f of the United States I The traitors then are those who have been stirring up strife who have been aggravating the islanders who have I be been n shouting defiance and threats of vengeance at an ignorant suspicious I race who have been adding to the I I fears and the desperation of the I by intemperate Int and mouth I ings and calculated to pro prolong prolong ro long the war ar and destined to cost this republic hundreds of lives yet before the restoration of order or r These Spanish newspapers printed in America AmeriC do not reflect American senti senU sentiment I mont moat The Ve they advocate is not Americanism But the do donot donot donot not know And every eve time a pier raises his glass and lets out a war whoop W loop they rhay imagine that death is near neat and grasp grasp their rifles determined d to fight to the bitter hitter end This is what has cost l t this country so many many lives anti and ands so much treasure The who make war ar with their lungs luS should be suppressed the pacification of the Filipinos will follow easily and quickly |