Washington sentinel., 1899-05-06
THE PHILIPPINE CRIME.

help but shed tears OF anguish
when he recalls how this Admin
istration, which had at first been
perfectly willing to receive the aid
OF the Filiplnos against Spain, be-
gan early to ignore them; how
dispatches were sent calling down
our consul in the Orient who had
spoken we'll OF them and had
helped to enlist their services in
our behalf; how we commenced
to treat them with coldness and
neglect, to separate ourselves from
them. Possibly the President at
that time contemplated turning
them back to Spain when peace
should come, and therefore
thought that he had )etter not
recognize them too far; that such
a course might create embarrasJ-
menr in negotiating a treaty OF
peace--an event then Just ahead.
Soon, however, came his resolu-
ton to deprive them OF their lib
eTty and take them unto ourselves.
They heard Spain sue for an armis-
tice. They witnessed the signing
OF the protocol, leaving the dispo-
sition of their territory a subject
for future determination.
They had by this time learned
to suspect US, to doubt our integ-
Tity. They were filed with
anxiety and alarm. They drew
apart from us and unto themselves.
They soon saw with indignation
that President, who not eight
months before had declared to the
world that the Spanish War was
not waged for the iorcible annexa-
tion OF territory, negotiate treaty
which robbed them OF their soil,
and annexed it to our own
domain, and send it to the Senate
OF the United States for its ap-
proval. They listened with heavy
hearts and kindly resentment to
the same Presidents proclamation,
couched in language as cruel as it
was diplomatic, and in his honeyed
phraseology they read the death
knell OF all their long cherished
aspirations to be tree. In this
their great emergency, they dis
patched to our shore a represent
ative, whose mission was one OF
amitY, and who came only to in
tercede with the Chief Executive
and to implore him and US to do
them no wrong. In what manner
did the President receive this in
telligent and inoffensive man, the
messenger from our friends and
allies at that timer He ignored
him entirely. His respectful peti-
tions were treated with silent con-
tempt. When he knockC d mildly
and respectfully at the doors Of
the Department Of State the silence
within was like unto that Of the
grave; they were barred against
him. Spies were sent to watch
him at his hotel, as though he was
a common malefactor. When he
walked out into the streets his loot
steps were dogged by the detec-
tives Of the Secret Service.
He was denounced, ,misrepresented
and mistrusted. Finally he was
threatened with arrest, and then.
when to avoid so great an indignity
he fed our domain, we added in
suit to injury by falsely charging
that he had telegraphed to Agui-
naldo to attack our troops at Man
lila as a means of preventing the
ratification Of the treaty OF peace
in the Senate, and had left us to
escape punishment Tor that offence.
How would it be possible Tor this
man to send such a telegram and
escape prompt detection here,
when his every act was under our
constant surveillance and when we
had established a strict censorship
over all that he said or did2
What man not a driveling idiot
believes thatrAgoncillo was Iool
enough to precipitate bloodshed
in the Philippines when he knew
only too we'll that peace there was
the only hope for the defeat Of the
treaty here1 Then we ratified this