Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1899 — What A Comparison. [ARTICLE]

What A Comparison.

Those men in the United States who insist upon comparing Aguinaldo with Washington and his troops with the embattled farmers who met the British at Lexington will find food for thought, unless they are too biased and ultra to think, in the treatment accorded Gen. Lawton's flag of truce before Bali nag. Gen. Lawton discovered women and children in the trenches he was about to bombard and assault. He sent a flag of truce and officers to tell the Filipinos to remove the women and children—that he would grant time for this. His officers bearing a flag of truce were fired on in open daylight not once, but twice. Yet the malcontents, the men who are trying to disorganize the volunteers in the Philippines, who are trying to tie the hands of the United States and who are advising the soldiers to mutiny, take pleasure in proclaiming from the housetops, at public meetings and through the newspapers, that these Filipinos are conducting war according to civilized methods, are pure patriots, entitled to rank with the heroes of the Revolutionary War, and that the brave soldiers of the United States are cutthroats and brigands.— Lafayette Call.