Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-01 | Page 4 | Philippine Army Reduction

f 4 MM f 44 t t M t t f M I M I I M M I M M M M It I t I I I M M 1 PHIL PHILIPPINE ARMY REDUCTION i I t t I M HI M M I M 0 I M I M M M M M Now that Cortes tes and Lukban have been taken and their following killed d captured or dispersed what is left of the the Philippine insurrection appears to amount to very little in the opinion of both the insular and the Federal ral authorities The first effect of the i improved proved conditions in the archipelago will be to justify a considerable reduction of the permanent army of pacification It Itis is to be reduced to two thirty-two thousand men by b th the withdrawal of about 1 out thirteen thousand troops who were sent to to tl the e island in is 1899 The regiments affected are t id tO tOb b b. bb brought home one at a time beginning in about C three months from now In spite of all that has been said to the contrary contrary con con- by expansionists anti it is sufficiently clear that the Government has succeeded in almost completely completely com corn crushing out rebellion and in satisfying ing a 1 majority of the Philippine natives that their moral and material good and their peace and safety wilbe will wil willbe willbe be by acceptance of American rule Althe All Al the indications are that the plans methods and administration administration ad ad- ministration of the Taft government have worked l almost to perfection in placating native sentiment and in winning the Filipinos to contentment with the just and kindly paternalism of the Great Re Re- public