“ If he be in service there is no body of men in the world from which such an offender, not a soldier but a brigand, could expect less mercy than from a court-martial composed of the officers and gentlemen of the United States Army. If the facts be as Messrs. Schurz and Adams report, they do well to be angry. They only do not do well, and, in fact, do outrageously ill, when they impute, as they can scarcely deny that they do impute, the action of a blackmailing brigand as characteristic and typical of the United States Army in the Philippines. ”

“ While we by no means agree with the estimate of their own public services put on them by the excellent gentlemen who are trying, in the face of every discouragement, to save the American people from themselves, we hope not to do any injustice to the anti-imperialists. ”