Show j I 1 O. O I U I. I M I 1 t t THE THE WATER CURE CURE 4 t. t I I I I 4 6 1 4 4 4 I 4 The The water cure testimony of Sergeant ex-Sergeant nt Riley late of the Twenty sixth Volunteer Infantry before the Senate Committee on the Philippines is destined to create a sensation and undoubtedly dIy will result in an investigation of military police methods metho s in fn the archipelago more searching th than n may be convenient con cots to fhe Adjutant Generals General's office I. I In the testimony alluded to the names names pf of two regular officers and a contract surgeon are men mentioned nien irien- as having participated in the torture of a Filipino p presidente to tomake make him give up information information information tion needed by the military They are entitled to tobe tobe tobe be heard in rebuttal before w we we accept the Riley story in its entirety But it must be said aid tale related by tl soldier ex-soldier witness is circumstantial tia and connected enough to impress the er a average ge reader with the probability of its ith being true We Ve ye sha shall ll expect to hear vigorous denials from the War Department and by bj cable from Manila Denials however will not now serve sel to prevent rigid en en- qU lY The charge that the water cure torture has has- been used b by our troops in ill the Philippines o on numerous occasions to extort confessions confessions- or information information mation nation from natives has been so often and widely made and reiterated by numbers of people who claimed to have witnessed such outrages and Sand who could not be in collusion in the nature of things gs that the public is prepared to believe belie there is something something something some some- thing in it and that if there be he it ought to be probed relentlessly If proven nf naturally it would male malie excellent Democratic campaign m material b but t tI the administration should not attempt to smother the scandal on that account If our commanders in inthe inthe inthe the field or their subordinates have practiced or Os tolerated such methods something drastic sh should uld be done about it and without delay |