| Show hove TAFT T i PRAISES n L WORK OF ARMY I Its Duties In Islands Had fiad Been Arduous While Its lis Activity Skill And Bravery Had Soon Rendered Tired of War Warfare fare Tells T Story of Lunas Assassination Washington Fob Feb Taft Tact today continued his hili narrative nil the before the Sen Hen Senate ate nto committee co 1 on the lie Philippines con conditions In the th Philippine archipelago to hh his hl testimony of of yester yesterday day n lit lie said Haul he feared that glue i lb Co wrong impression lolI concerning con the lie liePart part the army had played In bringing tho the Insurrection to an nn end but Lut if It so o othis this was due to the this fact that lie ho could rot present ent a n correct lo of tho them whole situation from ono one point ot or view Ie Then In order to tD give glo tho the army arm Its lie just u t dues he Ito took up soul and analyzed Its lis work In the Islands He lIe recalled that thatus thatus us ItS soon noon ns os Got Oen Otis lint had received rein In sufficient for his purposes tho ho Filipino 1 had broken up UI and Into guerrilla bands On thin tills Aguinaldo and LUna had bad differed Luna Iuna advocating tho the continuance of ot the war on the old uld lines Bo So sharp walt wait as this difference ho he said that hind bad directed and secured the lIe assassination n Ion tion of I Ituna thus leaving the way open for the carrying C out of ot his own plans Ho Ito would not 1101 lie he h saul report roll rt the Ito Inti Ind IndI dent Cent If It It hud bud not nol been beell positively re ne reo I I to him by b IOu Gen Funston aldo aid said MId that If Ir he did not 1101 kill Iuna IUta Luna would kill hili him Indeed the cue cus cu torn tom way wa Ia to order a man death In tile hta and have him hini killed upon tile bis hl r fhe The presence of there iliew guerrilla lands tendered It U to Dingo garrisons being attune tnie tm ns as many mony as tie fOO 00 nr or thorn diem Ih m This ron rOil doted the work before beton the lbs army arm arrn my very Ir arduous and the activity this the skill and the tile bravery of ot the American n troops were wel such lIuch OH OM to soon render the enemy tired of or tile the warfare warrn Speaking nf or the ml military fory policy In the Philippines thor Go Taft said The Tho has hus hia been all over Or In tn these Iliew Islands anti and that int which remains Is I a n crime crimo against civIlizatIon It n ls Is i also a II rIme against t the p to 10 ke keep p up a state of or star under tinder the th circumstances They Thoy Ine worn lIn out the right rl ht to 10 any treat ment but that thal Is 18 mere serero ant within the Hie laws lasts of ot war tsar Iou 00 Taft also said that tho the great majority of or tIn the people of ot the Iho Islands desire peace And that thai the Insurrection In by II their arts acts preventing the theman theman man mats of ot the tho people from settling down ant earning n a quiet QUIt living Ill n 1 Instead of being allowed to do this they wore were kept under tinder a n system stem of or terrorism which should bo bit stopped |
