Show I M1NLEYIStO BLAME I Absence of a Policy Caused the Philippine War 4 ARMY OFFICERS VIEWS JUDGE ADVOCATE t JEW ± ilJL 1 TTTRIiS mOM MANILA S S M I 4 5 Aguinaldo Had Cause t Doubt Ou Good Faith For He Could Not Conceive of n Powerful Government Govern-ment Without a Fixed Policy Insurgents Aided Americans 3 4 New York Feb IS Judge Advocatfr General Jewett U S A who has Just J arrived here from Manila when told 4 by a World reporter about tho fight 1n 1 the Philippines said I J I am glad of It The sooner the i crisis is reached the better Might is the first requisite for enduring peace The Filipinos will not give us any trouble after the malcontents and guer rila leaders are captured We must not forget that the utter absence of a policy regarding the future Is to blame for this trouble Aguinaldo has had cause to doubt our good faith He used to come to see me nearly every day just as he went to visit General Gen-eral Merritt Hn would ask What is your government going todo with us We could not tell him He naturally believed us liars and cheats He could 4 not conceive of a powerfuhnation without with-out a fixed icw Then he rt to j American uttering falsehoods occupation to the world about i i Had he any grounds J None but motives of revenge was the reply J I went into Manila when it was captured and established our courts In a week by proper police sttem we made Manila with all its subtropical population as safe as New York j Aguinaldos infamous falsehoods about the maltreatment of native women were circulated to inflame the Filipinos Fili-pinos We had 22000 men there and not u single censurable act was eons mitted by one of them That is remarkable re-markable but true What is the real situation S Satisfaction the Spaniards Satsfacton among Spaards and some discontent in the insurgent ranks due to the delay in declaring our policy Beyond question we owe considerable to the insurgents They cowed the Spaniards b y their show of strength when we landed The kept the Spaniards in the city expecting to make cold meat of them when we came ashore Naturally from their point of view they were disappointed At the same time General Merritt kept the insurgents bunched so that they could not spread into the hills and when he had to strike he delivered a crushing blow The guns on the ships threw shells with the precision of Mausers It was wonderful Whole groups of the insurgents with guns in their hands to kill our men were literally effaced There will not be any serious guerilla warfare in the Philippines Philip-pines I there is Spanish regiments will be organized with American officers of-ficers and short work will be made of the natives The audacious bravery of our men volunteers chiefly be I remembered in charging the entrenchments outside Manila was amazing to the army officers of-ficers who witnessed the charge Our men crossed the open and climbed the hills in the full blaze of rifle fire They did this a if they had been soldiering all their lives Nothing more than an order was necessary Off they went This utter disregard for fear has impressed im-pressed natives and Spaniards alike I predict that Iloilo will be as quiet and orderly as Philadelphia before the month is over I am glad to hear what President McKinley said at Boston That will do more for peace than any action of congress |