Show The best answer to the pelitlon le llon which Senator Teller presented to Congress on Thursday last as coming from two thousand Filipinos demanding that the United Slates should relinquish every thing in the Philippines except the pro lection necessary to keep the devils there secure in their theit looting is sup sUJ plied in an article In the Independent from the pen of Gen Joseph Wheeler on Tranqulllzlng the Philippines He says the work remaining for the army of the United Slates Is not very serious seri-ous He doubts whether there are more than three or four thousand lies tiles now in the field against the United States and says that these are largely the t bandits bandi that have been ravaging In the Philippines for raaslng hlppines a hundred years The General believes I beleves we have onlyJq show them that we mean well to tin people of the tq Islands and that our occupation oc-cupation Is going to be per manenl in order I to t cause aJl resistance on the part W all except the robbers to ceoscv These will l have to be crushed out He admltn that these represent substantially only I one tribe and It Is doubtful whether thu other tribes or peoples of the archipelago archi-pelago would agree to Tagal domina I ton He with the others who are familiar fa-miliar With the situatIon believes that 1 the great purposcln the mind of Agul I naldo and his followers was through the 4 ambition to rule and an eager desire for largely for their own benefit thjj great property belonging to the re ligious orders Gen Anderson Gen Oils and thc civilians Andersonaer rl I L < have returned from the Islands have I all ment made substantially the came state |