Arizona republican., 1899-02-22


 whole human race, and so bring on the millennium.
 The Aguinaldo type of man is found everywhere. As however, the ability of the Aguinaldos to command infiu- ence depends upon the ignorance and credulity of those among whom they labor, it is not surprising to find that among the unciVilized and less cultur- ed peoples they have been most num- erous. The Aguinaldo of India was the famous Suraiah Dowiah who, de- spising the small but formidable army of the English, knowing nothing of their fighting abilities and sturdy temperament, imagined that the Brit ish power in the peninsula could be crushed as easily as Aguinaldo thought he could drive the Americans into the bay The Surajah posed as the de- liverer of India from a foreign yoke He issued proclamations as vain glorious as those of the Philippine leader; he announced that under the protection of the Indian gods he would fight the battle of the native against the white man. In one important re- spect he differed from the Philippine for, while the authority of the latter was self-assumed, the surajah was in the proper sense of the word a sov- ereign. But a legally constituted
 
 more capable of mischief than one who elects himself dictator; for the former begins at a point of influence which the latter must reach by slow and toilsome stages. The bubble of Dowlah's pride was pricked at Plaszey, one of the most wonderful victories on record, for, with 5000 men, only 900 of whom were Europeans, Give confronted an organized army of 6O,O00 troops, not only defeating but utterly routing and converting it into a mass of panic-stricken fugltives.
 The English are prepared to sympa- thize with us in the matter of trouble with oriental Agunialdos, for they have had more than one of their own. The Mad Mullah, or Moham'nedan prophet of the Afghanistan mountains, was three years ago as ignorant or the power and resources of the English as Aguinaldo of the American. Appeal ing to the superstitious hopes of tha Afghans, he taught them to believe that by means of charms and amulets he distributed they would be preserve1 from the bullets of their enemies; that Allah would send Gabriel and Raphael to go before them; that one victory would follow another until the whites were expelled from India. A blo1dy campaign was necessary to convince the mountaineers of Afghanistan that the date of Mad Mullah's assumption of the dictatorship of the earth was postponed, but the poor fanatics, who were sent into hopeless contest by a leader who remained safe in the rear, fought just as bravely against odds quite as formidable as those which the insurgents experienced at Malate.
 Gen. Kitchener disposed of an Afrl- | A Io in ha n 7ll-l durman. Calipha Abdullah, himself of the Aguinaldo type, was the successor l of one of the most pronounced of the class. The mahdi claimed to be the | Mohammedan messiah who came to | make all things new. The mahdis promises to his followers were of the | most exalted description. They were | to be invincible. No force on earth | would be able to stand before them | The prophet himself in spirit would be 1 with them. All the world, by persua- sion or force, was to become Moslem l in faith, and the mahdi's power was to | extend over all lands. The mahdi may 1 possibly have believed everything he | said, for he seems to have been crazy | religious fanatic. Certain it is that | the spirit of fanaticism which inspired | the followers of Mohammed and the | early Caliphs was present also among | the dervishes of Soudan, and they | showed a contempt for life which indi- cated their devout belief in the prom ise of their prophet, that WhosoeVer fell in battle should be Immediately | to the Moslem paradise As a leader of the Aguinaldo type the | mahdi was successful beyond most Of | his class, for during his lifetime the | of the dervishes carried every thing before them. His successor was as arrogant as himself. When a French emissary offered alliance against the English, Abdullah returned answer that he was already d1spos1ng of the English dogs, and as soon as ne had finished the task he would give ms attention to the eXterminat1on of tEe French.
 But every nation has furnished men of the Aguinaldo type. The story of the French revolution is filled with | their names: Robespierre, Marat, the | leaders of the Vendee, they were all | Aguinaldos. Spanish America has been full of them. When they failed | they were denounced, and if captured, | shot as traitors, like Hidalgo in Mex ico and scores of others whose names 1 as unsuccessful rebels, appear in the | history of every Spanish-Amerlcan state When they succeeded they De- came public deliverers, like Bolivar | and O'Higgins, for no Aguinaldo ever undertook a wilder enterprise than | some of those began by these two. The Aguinaldos are not confined to | any race or country, nor even to the 1 camp, for an Aguinaldo may be ac- tive in politics and even in the busi- ness and commercial walks of life as in the tented field. Even our nation has not been free from them, for the | annals of our country furnish stories | of wild enterprise, of cratic daring, as useless and senseless as the attack | made by Aguinaldo and his men on the 1 American lines at Manila.-St. Louis |