Report of a Visitation of the Philippine Mission
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Excerpt from Report of a Visitation of the Philippine Mission: Of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America We are at the end of a victorious war, but at the beginning of the momentous problems to which it has given rise. It is therefore not a time for national glorification or for appeals to greed or passion, but for thoughtful, solemn consideration of our duty. By no scheming of our own, and in ways very strange to us, we have been forced into governmental relations with eight millions of people on the other side of the planet. Some of them are partially civilized; many are wholly primitive, and nearly all are heathen with a thin veneer of Romanism of the mediæval-Spanish type. They are variously judged. As in China, much depends upon the point of view. Many soldiers, having come to the Philippines with a military man´s natural ambition to see the active service which will give the coveted opportunity for fame and promotion, see in the Filipino only an enemy. They chafe under the transfer from the absolute military supremacy, which they enjoyed prior to July fourth, to the present subordination to civil power. The guerrilla warfare which is still being waged in various parts of the Islands, notably in Cebu and Samar. has resulted in some massacres of our troops so treacherously atrocious that the typical soldier is apt to imagine that every Filipino carries a concealed bolo which he would use if be dared, and that the wisest course would be to give the Army a free hand until the natives have learned a wholesome lesson. One of the Manila papers gives editorial expression to this view as follows: "Do not let the people of the United States be deceived as to the true condition of these Islands. No American government not backed by bayonets can live here a month. Withdraw the troops and the Civil Governor and the Civil Commission would be swept into the sea. It will be necessary for Congress to make an appropriation looking to the maintenance, transporting and re-equipping of at least fifty thousand troops on these Islands indefinitely. Honesty to the American tax-payers demands that these facts should be frankly, even bluntly, stated." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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