The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
PEACE TREATY.
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solemn manner. in the name of the President
and the national government OF the Phllp-
pines against any resolution agreed upon at
the peace conference in Paris, as long as the
judicial, political, independent personality of
the Filipino people is entirely unrecognlzed
and attempts are made in any form TO I'M
pose on these inhabitants resolutions which
have not been sanctioned by their public
powers pow the only ones R Mno can legally oe-
Spain is absolutely devoid of a status
and power to decide in any shape or form
Spain and the Philippines was founded sole
ly on two historical facts in which the eX
elusive right of the F,lipinos to decide their
own destiny was implicitly recognized.
THE BLOOD TREATY.
'First-The blood treaty (Pacto de
Sangre) of the 18th of March. 1866. entered
into between the General Don Miguel Lopez
de Legazpi and the Filipino sovereign,
Sikatuma, a compact which was ratified and
confirmed on the one side by the King of
Spain, Philip II, and on the other side by
the monarchs of Mindao. Visayas and
Luzon, and by the supreme chief of that
confederation, the Sultan Lacandola, pro-
claiming as a consequence the autonomous
nationality of the kingdom of New Cas-
tile" formed by the Philippine islands, un-
der the sceptre of the King of Spain.
''Second-The so-called Constitution of
Cadiz' in the discussion, vote, PRONUNCIATION
and execution of which the deputies and
t1lplnO people look an active part, ana Dy
which constitution the nationality of the
SPANS was made effective.
But from the very first moment in which
the peninsular public powers attempted to
impose their absolute sovereignty on the
islands the FflipinoS protested energeJically
by force of arms, and from the first at
tempt in 1914 the struggle in defense of their
political personality was implanted. When,
In 1881, the deprivation of their rights was
consummated the Filipinos again protested,
Spain sustaining against them a fratricidal
and. inhuman struggle. which has lasted
from that time EDWARDS up to the present
day. FalSehood, which always character
lied the actions of the peninsular author
fact of the real situation. the force of which
has lasted almost century
''At length, at the end of the present CEN
fury, the Spanish forces have been COM
Spain cannot now even allege the posses
sion by her of the islands, because the per-
manency of a handful of peninslar soldiers
approximately four hundred) who are ex-
the south of the archipelago. cannot consti-
tute such a right. The Spanish govern
ment has ceased to hold any dominion by
deed and by right, and the only authority
which exists there and preserves order is
that constituted by the Fflipinos with the
solemn sanction of their votes the only le-
gal fount Of positive modern power. Under
such conditions the Spanish commissioners
in Paris have not been able, within the
principles of the law of nations, TO flve up
or TO transfer what if they ever had, they
have totally lost before the signing of the
protocol at Washington and the arranging
Of the terms Of the treaty at Paris
SPAIN VIOLATED HER PACT.
THE Filipino people who consented to
the blood treaty ard the constitution OF
1872 annulled those conversations BY reason
Of Spain not complying with her undertake