Show Till INCIDENT NT St Paul Pioneer Press Tho The mn a company of Amer ican i Soldiers CAUght Off oR their euard In I the Island blond of bC Samar a 1 few reI days itys ti lyS ago ngo ngo lamentable as itS It t la Is will probably have the Iho effect of ot Inducing among our officers a 11 degree of ot caution which they appear to have lacked hitherto and BO so of ot averting larger larGe disaster in the future The Tho American Indian at his worst was never quite so cunning or quite so treacherous or so fertile In deception as ns are aro those Oriental races They may appear to be If utterly cowed cowell Just at the th time when they ore are meditating a most i effective bow A whole province may today wear an aspect of at supreme re repose repose repose pose with not a n disaffected Individual to be found and tomorrow be aflame with sudden revolt That Is the lesson learned from British ns as aswell well na ne from fron Spanish h experience and tram train tho the earlier history of Dutch colo cob colonization in tho the Orient Milwaukee Wisconsin Against such sack sad mishaps as 88 befell betell company C of the tho Ninth Infantry U S 8 A 4 of ot whose whoso officers and m men n were killed billed by a f Filipino 1 force which surprised ed them while at break fast taut nothing but lut vigilance can cnn Insure The Tho war is nominally over In the Phil but the ho American soldiers are not there for tor picnicking Samar Is Isan isan an In Island where whelO turbulent elements will linger long lone after there Is II quiet In the themore themore themore more populous portions of Luzon From Prom the standpoint of statecraft tate there thero is bno no nomore snore more significance In the tho slaughter at Sandar than there thero was In Ir the killing of Capt Canby and his command by the American Indians In 1814 Cleveland Plain Dealer One reason tenson assigned for tor this sudden Insurgent activity Is the as assassination of President which Is III said to have havo hll encouraged tl the Filipinos l to t strike for tor their liberty while tho the United States Is III supposed to be In III a n condition of ot paralysis as os a 1 result of ot the tile murder of tho tie head of ot the gov gas government government That Is i purely hypothesis but If It the Filipinos really harbor such an idea they are aro doomed to actual dis CIa disappointment appointment If It the change of Preel dents effects elt ct the tl Philippine situation at atall atall all 1111 It Is I not likely to be bo In the tho direction of ot a less vigorous effort to enforce the tho sovereignty of the tho United States tes Chicago News The lesson of the affair ns as to the need of ot greater watchfulness doubtless will wilt not bo be lost upon our forces In the archi archipelago pelago Meantime len Gen Chaffee Chartee It Is Isto Isto isto to be presumed will fit out a n punitive expedition against the Insurgent lender and mako make It his hili chief object to effect the capture of or Lukban According to the testimony te of ot those thoRe familiar with conditions In ii h Samar gamar this leader Jender Is elm sim simply ply Illy a cowardly cO mercenary promoting revolution for tur his own end ends Ic lIe Is not credited with even een such nueh motives of oC pa Pl p as os svere fre believed to Inspire The sooner this ambitious ambit ous brigand 11 Is I caught and subjected to ex cx exemplary punishment the thc better Letter New York Evening Post rail Very Vcr few tew Americans we Imagine can see lice any nn money mone In tn the adventure nun tester fewer tUIl still would avow that the tho money consideration ought to govern us in our dealings with the tho Filipinos I of ot Samar or those thou of Luzon But nut the 1110 situation Is it is III a and and tho the Inevitable question comes conies up What would you OU do The Th answer has haj been given ghen many times lines Treat them as ns we WO said v we e 0 would treat Cuba and as u we wo are nN now actually treat Ing log Cuba Assure them that they shall Rhall govern themselves and anc that we 0 will protect them In doing doln so eo Is there any other way my of dealing with them that promises s pence peace within the lifetime of ot this generation V Baltimore Sun General MacArthur late In command In the tho Philippines has hns n frankly of ot C late about ab Ul the outlook In the tue archi archipelago pelago General Corbin H is I represented its ts saying raying that the tho millennium Is I going to come rom to the Filipinos Filipino In the next hext ft n br be six years yosts It Is 15 plain from the made mad by General MacArthur V that tho the Filipinos will have to enjoy their millennium under military Super Villon Unto the late commander nf f four our forces in thin tho hI Philippines has hu wholly ml un the character of or our A All AI l atle brethren n they will require r watch log ing by an nn American army for many years to 10 come com Boston Transcript This success IIII of at the Samar Su br ar Insurgents may hA stir IlIr up embers of elsewhere Into Inlo a blare blase which may mAIe give ut us u more trouble It will ilI b be 1 well for the govern goern government m ment nt to halt bait In t n its policy p lJ of our force in the tile Philippines until nUl the th extent of thin spread if f this affair I is III determined Meanwhile General aught to be heavily reinforced In Ina Sumar Samar a |