Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-30
SOME OF AGU1EALDOs wILEs.
Returned American Soldier Tells What
He Knows About the War.

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Rupert, a soldier who has lately re-
turned from the Philippines, and who
for the past year has been serving
under Gen. Lawtoa as an Orderly
Sergeant in the LIST Colorado Regi-
ment, while visiting his brother, J. 3.
Rupert, of this city, was interviewed
by a Globe Democrat correspondent
to-day. He gave out some interest
ing facts concerning the war in the
Philippines.
MIR. Rupert says the average Fill
ipino lie not intelligent enough to know
why or for what he lie lighting. They
are very superstitious, and this fact
has been used to the greatest possible
extent by A~gulnaldo.
"One OF the things" says Mr.. Ru-
pert, (which has held the FIlpinos
together during the length OF time in
which they have regarded and which
causes them to still regard rs as their
worst enemies, is the paper which
Aguinaldo has published, and which
he would still be publishing but for
the recent capture Of his printing
outfit. In this paper he denounced
the Americans Is being far more bar
barous than the SpRniards and called
upon the people with mock patriot
ism to awaken themselves and join
their brethren under arms In a grand
and glorious attempt TO hurl the in
vaders from their land. This, said
AguInaldo In his organ, can be easily
accomplished, IL the Filipino forces
will only work in unison. Each week
during the publication Of his paper
Aguinaldo announced some fresh VIC
tory with which to renew the courage
Of and stir to action his delnded fol-
lowers.
occasionally be would proclaim
the defeat OF several thousand Amer
lean soldiers BY a more handful Of
patriots; next an engagement in
which Gen. Lawton, Gen. Wheaton or
some other commander OF the United
States troops had been captured with
his entire command, and then again
he would tell Of the surrounding and
retaking OF some town which had
been occupied BY u troops-
"These and other lying publica-
tions,'' says Mr.. Rupert, "were freely
circulated among the neutral ss well
as the hostile natives for the solepur-
pose of misleading those who would,
IL they knew the truth, acknowledge
the sovereignty Of this government
When asked IL he thought Aguinal-
do capable of forming q government,
provided he should be successful In
, his warfare against Uncle Sam, MIR.
Rupert said:
mo cir; and even II he were to
succeed in the formation and estab-
lshment Of a Filipino government be
would, the first time q suitable Offer
was made, betray his country into the
hands Of some foreign nation, having
already done 90 once to Spain"
Mr.. Rupert was on the firing line
for nearly 3 year, and relates many
thrilling adventures. he expressed
himself as having great contempt for
the Workmanship Of the natives, and
says our boys r nor afraid Of the
diseases peculiar to that climate than
Of Filipino bullets. Following the
practice Of the spaniards, they shoot
from the hip, and not from the should
er; to use Rupert's exact words,
"they could not hit q flock Of barns"
The natives are using the Mauser and
Remington bullets, the latter being
far more feared than the other be-
cause Of the brass coating, causing
blood poisoning, which usually results
in death.
The correspondent asked Mr.. Ru-
, pert IL the stories about municipal
government being granted the natives
were true, and received the following
answer;
ssYes, but the United States officials
are going q little slow on that now,
this privilege having been on several
occasions abused. Only q short time
ago the Mayor Of Maranac, within q
little while after his election, trans.
formed the Mayors Office into a re-
cruising station for the purpose Of en-
listing soldiers 10 serve under Agul-
naldo. In consequence OF this viola
ton Of trust, his Honor, the Mayor,
nov langnishee in the military prison
at Manila.n
Mr.. Rupert expresses himself as be-
ing firm in the belief that Aguinaldo
viii never become q United States
prisoner. Rupert feel sure that when
be finds his cause to be q thing Of the