Show CRIME OF THE FILIPINOS I Pacification should ba tho only policy in the Philippines at present But the only way to restore peace to an unsophisticated phisticated people led by unscrupulous I and treacherous leaders is to subjugate subju-gate their armies and punIsh the chief j rebels as they deserve I The crime of the Filipinos Is too dastardly das-tardly to pass over lightly I was not I only a mutinous revolt against the forces they had voluntarily joined in our war with Spain but from their own statement of the cases it was a cowardly ly attack upon those whom they called their allies Yet more than all it was a I crime not more of blood than of ingratitude In-gratitude i True the president was a long time in deciding upon a policy Ho has to make a tour of the country first speak ing on both sides of a question weighing weigh-ing the applause to see which side he prefers It takes many months and many miles of travel for Mr McKInley to make up his mind on public questions no matter mat-ter how momentous or urgent they may be While we are convinced that the commercial com-mercial advantages to be derived from Philippine annexation not 5 much from the trade and resources of the islands is-lands as from the prestige it would give us in the Orient and the practical practi-cal mastery o the Pacific it would insure in-sure to the United States still as The Herald has before remarked no one cares to annex a revolution or even be responsible for the conduct of a race which may have to be exterminated In the effort to make it behave I I is of no use to talk about annexing the Philippines against their will I I WOUld be folly to hold them ovnn an on I n 0 lonial dependencies so long as martial rule under Alger or carpetbag rule under un-der Hanna are the alternatives presented pre-sented by this administration But the United States government is under obligations ob-ligations to itself to foreign powers and I to the natives themselves to restore order or-der in the Philippines and it is i necessary sary to suppress the present uprising in I order to discuss with any sort of satisfaction sat-isfaction the future of the islands |