This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Kansas, and bears date December 6, 1899. A. L. Mumper testifies on this point as follows: "It kept leaking down from sources above that the Filipinos were 'niggers;' no better than Indians, and were to be treated as such. "Whether this policy came from Washington or was born in the minds of the ambitions officers who ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Kansas, and bears date December 6, 1899. A. L. Mumper testifies on this point as follows: "It kept leaking down from sources above that the Filipinos were 'niggers;' no better than Indians, and were to be treated as such. "Whether this policy came from Washington or was born in the minds of the ambitions officers who had not yet gained enough glory, I cannot say. But I can say that on more than one battle-field they were treated like Indians. At Caloocan I saw natives shot down that could have been taken prisoners, and the whole country around Manila set ablaze with apparently no other object than to teach the natives submission by showing them that with the Americans war was hell." The original correspondent of the New York Evening Post, Mr. H. L. Wells (a volunteer), while he denies that the killing of prisoners occurred, treats at great length the question of looting and the appropriation of private property. This was indulged in to a shameful extent not only by the rank and file, but by many volunteer officers. Mr. Wells says in a letter to the Evening Post, published July 20, 1899: "As I said before, every house was entered, and if anything had been left by the former occupants it was thoroughly overhauled. Clothing was snatched out of bureaus and scattered over the floor in search of valuables. Boxes were broken open. Suspicious mounds in back yards were dug into. Cisterns were probed and bamboo thickets were inspected. Often caches of clothing, crockery, books, etc., were discovered, and their contents scattered in the search for valuables, very few of which were fonnd. Probably the two richest places, because the most hastily abandoned, were the cities of Pasig and Malabon. I was in Pasig the day after its capture, and at that ti...
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