The Philippine War Called Murder
A new monthly magazine has been established — The Expansionist — to boom the United States as a world-power. And its motto is the intensely significant statement: “Free Institutions and the Christian Religion Must Follow the Flag.” In this connection it would be unjust to withhold the following item from the letter of the special Philippines correspondent of the New York Herald, printed in the Herald of Aug. 11, 1900:— In the last week a correspondent took a dispatch to the censor for approval. The first sentence stated that the preceding week had been the bloodiest since the war began. The censor mildly objected to the use of the word “war.” “There is no war out here,” he said. “Well, what do you call it when three hundred natives have been killed in three engagements, which is what happened this last week?” asked the correspondent. “Well, what is it, then?” persisted the correspondent.