Conditions in the Philippines
Conditions in the Philippines are well set forth in the reply of Mr. Dooley to Mr. Hennessey, “Phat about the throuble in the Fillypeens?” says Mr. Hennessey. “It is all over,” says Mr. Dooley. “All over?” “All over;” that is, all over the Philippines. Mr. Stephen Bonsal, who visited fourteen of the concentration camps of General Weyler in Cuba, and also witnessed those established under General Bell in the Philippines, tells us that no comparison can be made between them. The Filipinos are gathered in towns, good sanitary regulations are observed, and plenty of food furnished the needy. During this time crops of the insurgents were destroyed. Of the general feeling in the Islands, Mr. Bonsal reports despairingly. While Judge Taft and the commission have done all they can, consistent with conditions, Mr. Bonsal says that “the edifice is built upon the quicksand of sedition and treason. No matter how cleverly he may build, the whole structure will be overturned some day, and not the day of our choosing. The Filipinos are against American supremacy in any shape or form.” If the advice of some true Americans had been followed, what a different tale would have been told! How many wrecks of hopes and lives would have been prevented!