The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11

Americans. 1t is dream that is dreamed
Aguinaldo, 1t is true, still insists that he
Will have that for which he Graves or he
VIII nave nothing. Yet, bar a few English
men who should know better, nobody takes
much stock in Aguinaldo.
Inc Tagallo is pretty much all of one
type. He varies merely. as the square of his
distance from the observer lessons and
grows greater. Seen from the United States
he is a fine, manly fellow, fighting hope
less battle against the aggregated wrongs
or centuries. AT his home here in the Phil
lpplneS he is devil pure and simple. He
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
lie is true to no cause and to no leader.
He is, in short, good-natured, murderous.
much loving, lying, indolent. thieving, a
bully, leprous, lazy, Woodworking. small,
muscular scoundrel, who makes good serv
ant so long as he Is rewarded with kicks
and cuffs, but who grows thot in the head
and runs amuck just soon as he wakes
fat under the generosity of what we in
America call decent treatment. 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
him as a brute, as he treats poor little
ponies that fetch and carry for him. and
when, as he has found out in the case Of
the Spaniards, he will one day discover his
it'ol is made Of clay, and will turn and
rend you.
Just now there are two leaders who are
giving the rebel cheftain a lot of trouble
These are General Pho Pillar, who commands
III the ulStrlcL ABOUT San R6QrO Macdta.
near where the battle was fought which
won Manila for the Americans, and a Chi
nese leader, called Pu All. the theater of
whose operations is on the north side of the
city, in Malabon, in the district which
AguinaldO proposes presently to remove his
camp Whether he will be match for the
ChlneSe leader, who has never acknowledged
his leadership If it comes to a duel between
them, remains to be seen. Aguinaldo is not
an educated man nor a soldier, despite his
experience in guerrilla warfare against the
Spaniards Besides these two there are a
ing himself the center around which the
F1npmo world turns, all more or less en-
gagged In the business of plumber in a small
way and all more or less inimical to Aguin-
aido's dreams of Filipino republic, with
himself at its head
All this adds strength to the movement of
which news was received tonight for the
nrst time. This movement fathered by the
more intelligent and wealthy of the Tagal-
loS-for some of them are intelligent and
some are wealthy-sympathized in by the
meStiZOS, or half-breeds and likely to be
pushed on by the English here as promis-
ing the best solution of the Philippine prob
lem, is entirely in the interest of the reSto-
ration OF prosperity to the land and the Sc
curing of that stability of government with
perfty movement. In a word 1t will take
the form OF a popular request for the an
neXatlon OF the islands to the United States
1t will leave Aguinaldo's envoy to Paris
hanging 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 reality which
has been alluded to heretofore only in
metaphorical sense. Aguinaldo certainly
cannot have his republic if the movement
only one republic under the stars and
stripes.