Arizona republican., 1896-12-09
HIS WIFE BETRAYED HIM.
And Now Pedro Roxas Is a
 Lonely Exile.
The Prospective First President of the New Philippine Republic a Victim of Spanish Intrigue and Base Cruelty.

Base Cruelty.
 NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Advices from the Philippine islands tell of the fate of Pedro RoXas, the leading man of Manila and the man who had been picked out as the first president of the
 new Philippine republic in case the rebellion against the Spanish ruie on l the islands was successful
 AS sugar planter and exporter of sugar and hemp, Pedro Roxas accumu- lated fortune. He was finely edn- cated, broad-minded and at the fore in all improvements.
 1 He came to be beloved by everybody
 except the Spanish government. The
 Spanish dislike of him was natural,
 because his desire for progress was
 not in keeping with the bigotry and
 intolerance of their government. It
 was natural when the revolution | against Spanish misrule broke out
 months ago that the Meshzos who up-
 rose should turn to Pedro Roxas as
 leader, or for encouragement at least. ] He was counted as worth at least
 $5,000,000, and his possessions were in
 all parts of the island. At the first
 overt act on his part all would be con- | fiscatcd, so he could not openly -es-
 pouse the cause of the insnrrection- ists. But an implied promise to ac-
 cept the presidency of the new repub- lica Filippina when the republic came
 was different.
 1 pndrn Pnvoc, yryifo ho cAp was woman bound up in her religion
 She was a woman educated almost as
 well as her husband. She was hand
 some. She had most of the generous traits of her husband, but she lacked the important one of discretion.
 Pedro kept from her at first the news
 that he would be the first president of
 the republic; not that he didn't trust her, butthe feared the lack Of discre-
 tion. He was careful to have nothing
 to do with the insurrectioEists, and 2ot on any one act of his could the Tpaniards base charge that he was even a sympathizer with the men who were struggling for; iheir indepen- dence. But one day in an unguarded
 moment he confided to his wife the 1 plan that was on foot to make him E president This she told to her con- | lessor. The confessor, the story says, l thought more of currying favor with , the government than he did of his | VOWS, and she had no sooner confessed to him than he told of the confession , to the Spanish officers.
 f It came back to Pedro Rozas' ears t quickly, and in rage he accused his 1 urifo of hox -o b:-N,
 She denied it, and he rushed at her
 and attempted to choke he,. But he
 was overpowered by the teip that 7 came in response to her screaInsi.
 Here was the excuse of the govern
 ment to get rid of Pedro without any a scandal. The officials pretended to be- {: lieve in his loyalty to the government : They had "pity" for him. They said = he must surely be suffering from tenn e porary alteration of mind, or he never V would have assailed his wife so .sav- ;. agely. They said that the doctors on i the island were Incompetent to treat e a case so serious as his and that he a needed the best of European treat t ment and a change of scene He must I have it instantly, and in less time : than it takes to tell it, he was placed V aboard ship under the care of pay-
 sician. The ship sailed away to the
 penal colony of Ceuta, ill Afriea. There
 Roxas was landed. There he $ today,
 it is said, and there he will stay until ;. death-or a republic-releases him.
 The next step was to conhseate his
 property. This was done. Every foot d of ground he owned, every share of l. stock he owned, every house and s, everything in the house, even down n to the last spoon, was seized. The l. woman who had caused his downfall V through her want of discretion was tt turned out on the street a began. Not e satisfied with that, the Spaniards l. trumped up charge against F. L.
 Roxas, the cousin of Pedro. If Pedro
 was traitor, they .said, it must be in ,. the blood of the family. So they con-
 fiscated the millions owned by r. L. e Roxas and turned him and his family ,t out to starve. So the story ends. If pPJCON JAPOP