Show I Just now with delightful unanimity the mugwump and Democratic press of the country are asking If the war Is over in the Philippines why canpot tho soldiers be spared for China or sent home The matter has been a thousand thou-sand times explained The power of the rebellion Is broken ho organized force of the enemy remains but thcra are roving bands of guerrillas tht ft prey upon tho couhlryvfienco 6vdrylni porlunt point hagto ho garrisoned Take the Island of Luzon for Instance It Is Just about the size of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and more donnMy populated Tho temperature la so mild that men can live In tho open air tho year round and can subsist on native fruits game and flan How many men arc necessary neces-sary to police a region lilco that until the civil government be established and put In working order What ought to be done is to offer rewards for all who aro brought In alive or who I are killed In making tho arrests That I I would set the natives to work and the tough crowd would be quickly cleaned out or they would have to Joave the Island They aro outlaws They are not only willing to kill Americans but delight in killing 1 such of their own people as befriend or show a disposition disposi-tion to befriend Americans and to ag copt the terms offered They are the ones In tho way of peace undlt Is 1 easy to see how merely a thousand of them divided into twenty bands can annoy an army |