Show I MISGUIDED REBELS Aguinaldo and his fellow Filipinos are I trying to shape the policy of the United Unit-ed States in regard to the Philippine islands is-lands Whether or net they will be allowed al-lowed to make good their bluff remains to be reon5 Aguinaldo is evidently unacquainted with the American spirit He is trying to carry his point by main strength This will not do In the present instance Aguinaldo would accomplish more by acting hut He can not hope to inn in-n war when his recent masters made so poor a showing He would better wait and see whether the treatment he rei ceivgs from this government will warrant rant hostilities before he beslns them Aguinaldo may be intelligent for a savage but he is not longheaded enough to cope with any civilized power Americans whp have contended from the first that this nation needs no Philippines Phil-ippines are gradually becoming convinced con-vinced by reason of theattitude of the insurgents that the natives ought to be thoroughly Iirashed at least before be-fore our army is withdrawn Conditions for disorder exist in the I Phnnn nniiirp thp conditions in any uu other colony taken from Spain Manila is not unlike the cities of the West Indies In-dies perhaps but throughout the rest of Luzon are disturbing influences which are bcdng rapidly spread over the other islands and which may require time and moans and men t eradicate The difficulty springs from the ambitions am-bitions of the selfappointed leader of the Filipinos whose pretensions to divine di-vine right and the exercise of sovereign Sov-ereign power coupled with his utter lack of capacity are not likely to benefit ben-efit his people or the world Aguinaldo aspires to lead he car not whither He wants to blow a gold whistle and make his people bow at his feet But he hasnt the ideas of government gov-ernment which < ire necessary to the trade and industry of modern civilization civiliza-tion I the natives were actuated by any laudable ambition they would be glad to have the Americans establish order and security even under strict military rule that the importance and development of the islands might be assured I But while the difference and distancE i between Spanish tyranny and savage anarchy may b only a step it is a step backwards and that the world cannot afford to take I |