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FACTS TO BO FACED.
The facts must be faced. The war is not evor, and it will not be aver until pencefal occn- pation of every acre in the country is possible It is true that a certain number of Filipinos Inva surrendered, but the interior is to this day infested by bands of men whose methods and organisation are not remarkably different from the bauts of which Aguinaldo wse the nominal leader in 1900, Aa watter of fact, the dif- ficulty of dealing with the Filipings was con- siderably increased by the "captura" of Aguinaldo. From that moment the irrespon sibilty of the different lands of armed men was complete, and no settloaient is cow passible
the Manila wharven. Two American firmas, in- died, mads a sucéres of their business so long as there won seventy thousand soldiers to bo supplied in Luzen; but theso have, of course, been reduced also to the vergo of bankraptoy The by the rerail of a large part of the army. result is that there is a very bitter feeling that the islands are being wiministered at eanrmong cost for the benefit of the English auð Germsa traders who enjoy the trade. It may perhaps b's some consolation to them that they have succeeded in nducing by nearly a half the prosperity of those merchants, and in conge- quenes the prosperity of their colony also.
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The invaders are enforcing in the tropics a polioy that was slabersted in the temperate" zno, and they will fail, exactly as Sydney aud
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are déplorable. Tosome extent the great towns | and centre of gotivity in South Africa could igoure the guerrilla warfare that it took us two years to crash out. But the Philippines depend se entirely upon the land for their prosperity that the presence of marauding bands is as disastrous as a state of war. A somero of trouble that is likely to be more permanent is that a vast number of the younger generation of Filipinos have been attracted into Manila and Iloilo by the excessive wages that from the first the Americans have offered. These men have lost all taste for the severe drudgery of the country, and their reports are toupting rors and more to follow their example. Is this, as in the imposition of a gold standard, the invaders made a serious mistake. They bare carried the American-standpoint into an Oriental country, and they are reaping the fraits of their inexperience..
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