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The Concentration Camps.The following cable from Manila contains slt; me very startling intelligence:“Captain Prawford. chief of the constabulary lt;f Halangas province, reports that theUiditions there an* better than ever hefor *. The inhalitants are now constructing bet-ter houses and are living on a scale approximating American ideas of comfort, cleanliness anti sanitation.•‘Captain Crawford attributes this Improvement. principally, to experience in American ways, gained by the natives in the concentration camps. The American soldiers are now looked upon as protectors, rather than us enemies.”Heavens above! Filipinos getting Ideas of comfort, cleanliness, and sanitation in concentration camps? Why, those camps have been described as suburbs of hell.” It has been contended that they were pest holes; that people could not live in them, •but died there by thousands. It has been one of the Indictments drawn by the antl-impcrialists that we have copied Weyler’s methods after denouncing them; and more than one American newspaper and several American politicians have ottered apologies to that Spanish commander for what was said In this country on the subject of his concentration camps in Cuba several years ago. And now comes this American officer and represents the concentration camps in the Philippines as of merit enough to serve as models for the instruction of the people in the matter of building houses and caring for their premises.But maybe it will be charged that this officer lies; that he is seeking to break the force of the disfavor in which In anti-lm-periailst circles the army Is now held. May an officer who defends the army be believed on oath? Are not all the men serving in uniform in the Philippines tarred with the same stick? Is the truth possible to men who have been butchering women and children. applying the torch Indiscriminately, using dum-dum bullets, and conducting ; iUv-*jeiy«tf generally like painted savages?
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Fri, May 23, 1902
Page 15
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