The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

PARIS, Dec. 24.-The text of the pro- test lodged with the American and Spanish Peace Commissions by Agon- cillo, agent of Aguinaldo. the insurgent leader in the Philippines. an outline of which was cabled to the Associated Press under this date, is as follows
 PARIS, Dec. 12.-Their Excellencies, the President and Delegates of the Spanish American Peace Commission. Paris
 Your Excellencies: The very noble and gallant General Aguinaldo, president of Ga,,dln the Philippine republic. and his the post of official representative and Government of the United States of time the duty of protesting against any resolution contrary to the independence or that country which might be passed by the Peace Commission in Paris. This has already terminated it's sessions and the resolutions passed cannot be accepted as obligatory by my Government since the commission has neither heard nor in anywise admitted to It's deliberations the Philippine nation, who held an unques- tionable right to intervene in them in relation to what might affect their fu- ture.
 I fulfill, therefore, my duty when I pro- test, as l do in the most solemn manner, in the name of the President and the Ma tional Government of the Philippines, against any resolution agreed upon at the peace conference in Paris as long as the judicial and political independence and personality of the Philippine people are entirely unrecognized and attempts are made in any form to impose on these in- habitants resolutions which have not been sanctioned by their public powers, the only ones who can legally decide as to their future In history.
 Spain is absolutely devoid of a status and power to decide in any shape or form m a hp of Spain and the Philippines was founded solely on two historical facts, in which the exclusive right of the Fflipinos to decide their own destiny was implicitly recognized:
 First, the 'blood treaty" (pacto de sangre) of the 12th of March, 1865, entered into between General Don Miguel Lopez de Le Gazpi and the Filipino sovereign, Sikatuma, a compact which was confirmed on the one side by the King of Spain Philip II, and on the other side by the monarchs the supreme chief of that confederation, the Sultan La Candola, proclaiming as a consequence. the autonomous nationality by the Philippine Islands under the scep- ter of the King of Spain.
 Second, the so-called constitution of Cadiz, in the discussion, vote, promulga- ton and legislation of which the deputies and FYIipinos people took no active part, and by which constitution the national ity of ''the Spains'' was made effective.
 But from the very first moment in which the peninsular public powers at tempted to impose their absolute sover- eighty on the islands the Filipinos pro- tested energetically by force of arms, and from the first attempt in 1914 the strug- gle in defense of their political personal ity was implanted.
 When in 1897. the deprivation of their rights was consummaied, the Filipinos again protested, Spain sustaining against them a fratricidal and inhuman struggle which has lasted from that time onward up to the present day. Falsehood, which always characterized the actions of the peninsular authorities, constantly hid from the world the fact of the real situa-