The San Francisco call., 1898-10-08

gent persons hereabouts realize Is lost cause. The dream of liberty for the Filipinos, even of liberty with the pro- f tectiop of the Americans, is a dream that is dreamed. Aguinaldo, it is true, still insists that he will have that which he craVes, or he will have noth
 ing. Yet, bar a few Englishmen who should know better, nobody takes much stock in Aguinaldo. The Englishmen who do would not, perhaps, if they had not suffered from the depredations, during the siege of Manila, from the Savages of nearer and more offensive type of the Tagallo. The Tagallo, it should be promised, is pretty much all of one type. He varies merely as the square of his distance from the ob
 server leSsens or grows greater. Seen from the United States he is a fine, manly fellow, fighting a hopeless bat tie against the aggregated wrongs of centuries. Seen closer, in peace as at the island of Guam, where he is known as the Chimarro, he is good-natured, If somewhat dirty and leprous, individ- ual, who gives you green cocoanuts or sells you sucking pigs. with equal, abandon. At his home, here in the Philippines, he is a devil, pure and simple. He is a liar, and the truth is not in him. He is true to no cause and no leader. He is, in short, a good natured, murderous, music-loving, ly B. lazy, hard working, puny, muscular scoundrel, who makes good servant so long as he is rewarded with kicks and cuffs, but who grows shot in the head" and runs. amuck just as soon as he waxeS fat under the generosity of what we, in America call decent treat ment, He is, in a word, an Asiatic. Treat him as an equal, and he is sure you are afraid of him. Treat him as an inferior, as he is accustomed to be treated, and he will serve you well. Treat him as a brute, as he treats the poor little ponies that fetch and carry for him, and he will defy you for a few generations, when, as he has found out in >the case of the Spaniards, he will one day discover his idol Is made of clay, and will turn and rend you.
 The Tagallo can read and write and has taught himself to read and write. AHe has just the little learning that is a dangerous thing. He lacks, neverthe less the cohesiVeneSS which WeldS in dividuals into the state-the power to bear and forbear for the common good. And he cannot understand to this day why the Americans, having won Ma nila, do not loot the city and put all Spanish prisoners to the sword With all due respect to their intelligence it must be said that some of our Spanish prisoners exhibited the same wonder rather plainly up to day or two, though they are beginning to know us better now and to come out from the walled city with their wives and their choice possessions and to resume the manner of life which obtained before the siege.
 Just now there are two leaders who are giving the rebel chieftains lot of trouble. These are General Pic Pillar.
 who commands the district up about l Tl- -1. -I7.a t1aea hot
 tie was fought which won Manila to the Americans, and a Chinese leader, called Pu An, the theater of whose operations Is on the north side of the city in the Malabon district, into which region Aguinaldo proposes presently to remove his camp. Whether he will be a match for the Chinese leader, who has never acknowledged his leadership, if it comes to duel between them, re- mains to be seen. Aguinaldo is not an educated man, is not great soldier despite his experience in guerrilla war fare against the Spaniards and upon the two occasions when 1 saw him did not impress me as of particularly strong character. The Chinese I have
 never seen, but he must be man ot marked strength to have attained any degree of influence with the people, who look upon a Chinaman as just one degree lower than a dog.
 Besides these two there are d score or more lesser leaders, each fancying himself the center around which the Filipino world turns, all more or less engaged in the business of plunder in a small way and all more or less inimi- cal to Aguinaldo's dreams of Filipino republic with himself at it's head.
 All this adds strength to movement of which 1. heard tonight for the first time. This movement, fathered by the
 more intelligent and wealthy of the Tagallos-for some of them are intellt- gent and some are wealthy-sympa- thiZed in by the mestizoes, or half
 breeds, and likely to be pushed on by the English here as promising the best solution of the Philippine problem, is tion of prosperity to the land and the ment without which there can be no in a word, will take the form of pop ular request for the annexation of the islands to the United States. It will leave Aguinaldo's envoy to Paris hang ing in the air rather. It will leave Aguinaldo himself hanging in the air if, indeed. he does not meet the just reward of his deeds and do that in sober earnest to which I have alluded heretofore only in a metaphorical sense. Aguinaldo certainly cannot have his republic if the movement for annexa- tion succeeds. There is room for only one republic under the Stars and Stripes.
 ABDUL HAMID YIELDS