The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-06-03
.AGUINJALD0 and HIS MEN.

ro-oay not onty 10 struggle against men,
but also to overcome phantoms of the
past nature aroused from the mountains
and the dead who have come up from
their graves. That is why the soldier.
overburdened by his task fights without
| energy while the insurgents display In
battle the most furious courage. In soma.
cases they have rushed upon the Spanish
| lines with nothing but knives in their
hands and have come back to camp I'M
wounded. but covered with blood
There Is one good thing at least in
war, 1T develops a prodigfous energy, and
when its cause is legitimate it gives q
| moral courage to all. The haMbreeds and
the Indians In, Manila do no differ either
In their nature In their education from.
Aguihatdo' s Tagals:- Like the lat4er; they
| have fine heads and graeeful figures: Like
them, ALSO they have among. them bread
faces, hydrocephalic foreheads and an up
per ZIP SO far removed from the nose
that the whole physiOgnomy presents a
painful and stupid expression. Neverthe-
less, the foreign residents, especially the
Spaniards, Judge them falsely. They in
sist that they.Tare lazy, avaricious and
passionately fond of gambling They
prostitute their wives to Europeans and
the women consider that it is an honor
for them toe bring into the world a child
with high nose (alto nariz). They are
stepped in vice.
II dlned one evening with European
lady who told me the following: We
hVed near police barrack and the win
dow OF my, room overlooked yard in
which there was collection of officers
and soldiers There saw them bring in
some Indians, doubtless suspects They
tied them, one after another. upon a
bench, and with rods the soldiers beat
them on the soles Of their feet. The
victims yelled and the soldiers laughed
Each victim was obliged to count himself
with loud voice the number of blows he-
received. When a wretch reached 30. II
or AZ, maddened by pain, he became con-
FUSED In his count. called the soldiers
set of miserable assassins. They raised.
their heads and commenced to laugh at
me- And here the young woman stopped
her recital for an instant, and, with ewes
half closed, she added: But I have not
told you the most horrible part of it,
There were people present who laugE>6
louder than the officers and the soldiers,
and they were precisely the Indians who
were waiting for their turn to receive the
same chastisement, and behind them In.
the street were women and children.
Really the Spaniards are charming in.
their stupidity. have just paid a seconds
visit to Don Pope. He was seated in
his office before big desk loaded with.
ofncla1 papers. I cannot say that he sat
there like king, because his natural.
dignity Is tempered by an induigent good
L
because he has not the manners of a yul-
gar, half-breed or of upstart financier
Evidently he feels himself quite at home.
surrounded by homage and flattery. He
was gentlemanly and familiar, with a
full appreciation of his formidable re-
sponsibility and the weight Of empire
Atlas, the man of the world. He well
coined me with these words: You ara
France; am Spain. Let us shaker And
our hands clasped across a heap OF papers,
which. ~ suppose, represented the
pyrenees Well said he, what do YOU.
piled that thought they were splendid
so they are" he observed. And that
also was the opinion Of the consul andz
OF the japanese chancellor, Messrs. Shimf-
zu and Yamada, when last year they
came to visit Manila. His excellency. thu.
civil governor. asked them what they ad-
m1red most during their voyage, and they
both agreed that nothing was more strik-
ing than the beauty of the women
but said I, did they not also come.
to Judge of the strength of the meng -
- 'Ah, understand you,' said Don PepeI
twisting his mustache But they were
watched pretty closely, and as soon as
they were again on board their shiDs:
we seized certain filibuster named
Balbino Ventura, who received them il,
his province The fellow was thrown into,
prison. but he played a mean trick upor,.
us; he poisoned himself. The Japanese
are an inferior race. my dear sir: The
Tagals are another; and two inferior
races always find secret affnities and In
terests In common against a superior
race -.zSa''rs .-.....- =.
Nevertheless said l. the inferiorItv-
Of their race does not prevent them frora
admiring beauty since M. Shimizn'-'
Yes, yes, interrupted Don Pepe, YOU
are right. Beauty is always queen; but
you must admit that these Malay SCALA
V;o CrS r H. u.
at the hand of Providence
Probably Providence was thinking OF
the Spaniards,' said l. ...
Por Dios, monsieur said Don Pepe.
The Spaniards have too much to do. and
l wish that Providence had given them
more strength to fit them for the laborss
imposed upon them
You must admit, said I, that in
time Of insurrection'- and here again.
Don Pope interrupted me.
oh, gracious" he exclaimed, how
can you call this brigandage an insurrees-
ton? 1t can only last short time. We
haYe an iron circle around it and we
hold iteeby, the, throat. Our military OK
ganazatton lis Incompatible. Just look at {
our hospitals!
Would It be possible to bribe
Aguinaldo" I asked.
The rascal is not worth it, said Don
Pope. I do not know what they will de-
eide to do with him, but for my part u
would shoot him.
But will the causes of the ins11rrec-
ton, or of this brigandage, as you call il,
disappear?
Sir, said Don Pope, we are ali sin
ners, but do not doubt that we WIZ
manage to- mend. We don't CODY the Eng
fish who treat their Cingalese like nltser-
able beasts of burden.
81 did not dare to interrupt him to ten
him that he was probably mistaken in re-
gard to English colonization, because at
that moment he was OILY listening TO his
own eloquence- We have civilized our
Indians, said he; we have inculcate8
among them religious principles we hare
received them at our tables: we have
shared everything with them, giving
them comfort and security and now It
these rascals want to go back again into
their mul, let them ait least give us back
our money and the blood we have shed
for them. There can be no more indu3-
gence; for them, even if humanity must
suffer; no more education, even If the
we need now is inexorable justice and an.
army that will not be formed of con-
scripts. Is 1t not a pity, sir, that they
have sent us from Spain mere boys who
at the first shot rushed around their OH
GERS like bees around their queen, and
who Thought that they saw the devil
every time they saw the face OF an. In
dian? Have they lost their heads in,
Madrid? They seem to be working for
the destruction of our prestige. But,
happily, these boys have overcome their
fsars,, and oursfn nal. Triumph Is a question 2
Of only a few hours. =
The QueW's Attire.