Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — TAMED THE MOROS. [ARTICLE]

TAMED THE MOROS.

A Ceremony That Forced Them to Stop Running Amuck. Moro zealots do not rnn amuck as frequently as they used to do, largely because of a plan conceived by Lieutenant Miler, a volunteer officer from Chicago, described in the New York Tribune. When Datto Oali was killed in running amuck against a group of soldiers his body was buried with a degree of ceremony which greatly pleased the natives and correspondingly depressed the American soldiers. The denouement is thus described: “Two American soldiers with a pig between them approached the open grave of the Moro chief. They stood immediately over it with the pig between them. One drew out a sharp knife and silt the animal’s throat. The blood of it gushed into the grave and upon the remains of the dead chief. His body must'have been covered with this blood. He was made vilely unclean. His ascent into heaven was made a thing unthinkable. There was but one place in the hereafter to which these people could confine one so defiled. He would forever remain in the vilest of hell. “The natives slunk away, sickened and disheartened. The framework of their fanatical self sacrifice had been cut away from beneath them at a single blow. Their old practices would no longer exalt them. To those Who ran amuck and killed there awaited not the seventh heaven, but the uttermost hell. The occasion for the sacrifice was removed. Its rewards were taken away. It ceased to be. “As far as is known the incident of the pig occurred but once in the campaign among the Moros. With that one occurrence the practice of running amuck almost disappeared. There has been an occasional cropping out of the practice. These have mostly been in the outlying provinces, to which the tale of the American method of battling with the practice has not penetrated.”