The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-21
HOPEOF FILIPINOS
It Is In the Anti War Party
Here.
Progress of American Army
HOOted At
BROAD AS YOUR HAND.
Claim That Is All the Land
Gained.
Not to Be Conquered IF Every
American a Napoleon.
AS YOUR HAND.

The Filipinos evidently intend to hold
on as long as possible judging by an ar
ticlein La Independencia which has been
received by the State Historical society
from J. w. Ozias. It bears date Of Feb.
2S and is intensely interesting, being
evidently the second of a series of pa
pers written by an educated Filipino
The following translation was made by
James NJ. Chase:
The conquest of the FilipinOs by the
United States is an undertaking which
we conceive to be absolutely 1mpoSsl-
BILE.
A country of ten or twelve millions
of inhabitants, disposed to reject the
yoke of the stranger, and PROVIDED Win
means for so doing, can not be con-
quered.
1t required the strength of three great
powers to subjugate Poland. Russia
alone, for her share, furnished one nun
dred and twenty thousand men and
four hundred cannOns against an army
of One-tenth of that number in war
which the martyr of nations sustained
against her assassins- And even thus
history teaches US that Poland sue
cumbed under the weight of Internal
discOrd, or the struggle between arlSto-
Gratis and democrats, rather than to the
arms of her enemies.
In our former article we cited the
contemporary examples of Cuba and
Kabita More than two hundred thou
sand men in the eX-Spanish possessions,
the greater Antilles, were not sufficient
to master less than twenty-five thou
sand warriors, the same as thirty thou
sand men, provided with the most mod
ern implements of war, after severe en-
counter and bloody battles, failed to
put down the rebellion at Kabite, sUS-
tanned by less than two hundred and
seventy musketS.
But Filipinos, we have in the climate
and distance, two powerful allies
against the great North American re-
public. We are without doubt in bet
ter condition than the Cuban revolu-
tiOnistS were. We do not need foreign
products for our subsistence We can
prOlOng Indefinitely the present cam
paign. We have counted the cost of it.
AS to this last point permit US to be
less explicit.
And to prolong this campaign we
have to confess that the North Ameri-
can republic on their part will need
force of men here that we firmly be-
lieVe it doubtful they can keep, owing
to the energetic resistance which the
North American nation will make to
the continuous enliSting of troops deS-
tined for a war Ubiquitous and inhuman
from all standpOints-sO expensive in
blood and money, amen; and against
the opposition which the Democratic
! party will make to the imperialist in
pOlitics-so ruinOus and desOlating for
the United States.
Yet more, the indefinite prolongation
of the FilipinO-American war we do not
believe to be practicable as the interests
of the foreigners oppose it.
But we will proceed. 1t is about a
month since the FilipinO-American war
broke out. What positive advantage
has the government of the United
States gained? Almost nothing. A little
strip-a hands breadth wide-of terri
tory that never Will compensate them
for the numerous lives, that to obtain
it, they have sacrificed. And it ought
not be lost sight of, that to obtain this
hands-breadth Of land, they had re-
| course to deceit and treason.
The North Americans lost over two
/ thousand in LuZOn, in exchange for
! two or three towns of no Importance,
| that bring no benefit to the invader,
rather to the contrary, Opppress them
| with the hardships that their defense
and the labOriOuS transport of prOvis-
I ions and munitions of war puts upon
| them.
The North American army should
| take into account that the more they
! extend their area, the greater is their
| weakness, and as a result the more
| sure is their defeat. Another thing,
! what profit can result to the United
! States from these burnt towns, better
said, ruins, rubbish, over which it is i'm
! possible to build anything new? The
! United States will be limited to military
| occupation. She will maintain in them
/ military encampments that will soon
| fasten on the treasury of the United
! States a drain that will be the opposite
! of contemplate.
The United States should not manu-
! facture illusions. If fortune is adverse
/
| North American army can succeed in
| extending a little more their field of ac-
| ton. the United States viii not rule
| over more than ashes and corpses.
! In conclusion: We believe that the
/ imperialist party of the United States
| can not arrange means or forces suffi-
! cient to accomplish the conquest of the
/ FiIipinos
| We have finished.
! IMPRESSIONS OF THE WAR.
! We have learned from persons that
! have come from Manila that in Ameri-
! can circles the rumOr persists in circu-
| lating that the American people, tired
| of so many expenses. and the shedding
of so much blood. have raised their
| voices in protest against the war that
| the United States is sustaining with the
| FilipinOs.
It appears that they are being con-
| WINGED of the reality-that they are be-
| ginning to feel the consequences of the
ruinOus policy of the imperialists.
| We have also heard said that General
| Otis believing, perhaps, that he would
bottle up our energetic resistance and
| that asking for more and more regi-
| ments, he would easily suffocate the
! war with our nation, has solicited of his
/ government the sending of IS, 900 men,
| With themi illusion! he thinks he can
| finish the total conquest of the Fill
| pinos. Not even if each American SOL
| der was a Napoleon.