| Show SENSE ON THE PHILIPPINES The hysterical outcry lest I this country coun-try should lose Us high repute for humanity hu-manity and gentleness because oC some alleged cruelties In the Philippines Is sickening It seems to be forgotten altogether I al-together that a state of war has existed exist-ed In the Philippines that there has i been lighting and that American soldiers sol-diers have been killed have suffered maiming and sickness have been abused maltreated tortured with fiendish fiend-ish brutality and hate and have been betrayed by pretended friendship and led inlo death by deceptive Hags oC truce All this is not sentiment It is fact Is it to be wondered at that occasional oc-casional detachments would forget In their sense of horror and wrath some oC the mild precepts of longsuffering grace On this general subject we have seen no utterance In better form and spirit than this from the Zgoda a Polish newspaper of Chicago 13vory war has Its ugly sides and In every army there are a certain number of soulless tyrants who abuse their au thority and power History shows that this Olspraceful clement Is least numerous In the American army lx I > i UK only Imagine Im-agine what would be done In tho Philip pines If l Russians GcnnaiiB or oven Span lards wore carrying on war there The guilty will I bo Judged and punished while the I good which tho t United Suites has already al-ready done In thu I Islands and which It will yet do will live for ages The United States Introduced In those islands equality of men before tho Jaw liberty of cjin Kclcnce of speech and of the proms and gave tho Islands a liberal local autonomy and in order that the I Filipinos might develop de-velop and progress the United States im niudiaicly opened numerous schools and sent a whole army of male and female teachers there Jn view of these benefaction benefac-tion the abuses of a few brutal ollleers however horrible and sad vanish completely com-pletely and there la no necessity of weep Ins tears over the lot of the whole PhilIppine Philip-pine nation which Is experiencing no In justice I Translation made for the 11 tern ter-n r Digest We believe the Polish paper is eml nonily correct both when It says on the whole no injustice Is being experienced experi-enced In the Philippine amid that the proportion of ofllcers and men who abuse their authority and power in departures de-partures from the most lenient rules of warfare are fewer in the United States army than In any other in the t world To be convinced of this we have but to recall lhe awful scenes reported in the I trail of the Cossacks and some others of the armies of vengeance In China In WOO The American troops are doing a great and humane work In the isles they should be enthusiastically supported sup-ported by all citizens The wholesale whole-sale indecent and wholly unwarranted abuse heaped upon them by i certain of their countrymen is more of a cause for shamo than anything done by the American forces In the Philippines Foul tonpueiashingu such as have been unsparingly l administered I arc meaner nnd mors Indefensible limn even the watercure |
