The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-06
AGU1NALDo THINKS WE ARE ENGLISH.

1t is now painfully evident that the censorship
of from the Agunaldo people to this country is
drastic than that exercised over the news
supposed to be waited from us to the sun-baked
isles of the Philippines. That grand, eminent, auto
cratic awesome though dusky and notified Eastern
potentate and alaround last ditcher, Aguinaldo be-
lieves that Americans are Englishmen and English
men vice versa. Somehow he has imbibed the dis
nctiyely erroneous impression that American troops
conducted the war Waged against the dervishes at
Omdurman and also the various sanguinary mix-ups
in South Africa and around the Soudan. besides
personally conducting the Jameson excursion into
the Transvaal.
To assure Aguinaldo that such Is not the fact
should be a sacred mission Of the present admins
tration-whenever it catch up with him. I1e
might think better of u.s. To dsabuse his mind, to
dsillusionize him and the false premises
upon which Agunaldo seems disposed to build his
entire political syllogsm would prove sweet boon
to every patriotic in the United States. We
are not English-as yet. Instead of sending the
sWarthy nevergiye-upper of typhoon-swept Luzon
copies Of the Congressional Record it is plainly Mr.
Edward AtkinsOn's duty to forward him complete
set of Bancrofts History of the United States
Agunaldo will find the whole story put down there in
black and white. He will read how England at,
tempted to 't'run down" and how we kicked like
a bay steer wouldn't have it that way and fought
about that number of depressing unsatisfactory win
ters. He will learn how civil engineer by the name
of George Washington, to whom certain spasmodic
spelbinders in this country have fit to compare
the big medicine man Of the Philippines, moved
around freely among the boys the firing line in,
spired them with courage and set such an example
of patience and forttude won high encomums
from certain British statesmen and portion of the
British press. He will discover that victory perched
Washington twice selected to head the ticket
successfully and that when the people wanted to
send him from Mount Vernon to the White house for
the third time he just wouldn't have the presidency
at any salary and retired with grace and dignity to
pass in pastoral pleasures the twilight of a well
spent life. All this Agunaldo will find in the histor
zeal work alluded to, and much else besides incIud.
ing the great white fact that we whipped Great
Britain to a fare&ou2wen and completely dis-En-
gshed ourselves fronfat day until the present era
The G obe can easily how Aguinaldo has
acquired the notion that subjects of Queen
Victoria and slaves apparent of the Prince of Wales
Scattered about among the yellow newspapers of
New York miscellaneous job lot of yellow dudes
of the Willie Waldorf Astor variety. Although they
can't distinguish the difference between a London
cockney and Oxford graduate, they inclined
to 'go in for everything English, you know" and
carry macintosh Coney Island whenever there
is a heavy fog off Southampton. They import wear
ing apparel from Pooe'S and tumble each other
to shake the hand that shook the hand that shook
the hand that pumphandled the hand of Tod Sloan
who is said to have touched the glove tips OF
the Prince of Wales. This is the kind of American
spawn that has, somehow, infected Aguinaldo with
the idea that American is simply an under study
for Englishman
Then, too there is another lamentable truth that
has, doubtless imbIedaA guinaldo and the Philippine
junta with the impression of a close affinity between
the two nations. OF klte there has been no little
rot disseminated in tits country about a possible
defensive and offensive alliance between England
and the United States Lord Charles Beresford has
recently been lurclnng around this country swell
ing of heSeIs with talk about subjagatlon
OF the whole American continent with little bottle
holding and corner handbag from England. Cecil