Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-06

Hard to Manage.
Following the plan of the spaniards
to a certain extent each Of the prov
inces In the Philippines is under mil
itary chief; but among the insurgents
these leaders are self-appointed, and
have, by force of character, and ener-
getic action, assembled a sufficient
strength of followers to be able to
subdue any local opposition and to levy
contributions on the natives. These
leaders pulled together against the
Spaniards, In so far that they captured
or defeated all the isolated military
posts within few weeks after the &C.
cupation Of Manila by the United
States troops, but there was no con-
certed action between them, and, in
deed, they frequently refused to ac-
knowledge Aguinaldo's authority. In
many notable instances this independ-
ence Of action was very pronounced. In
Pho del Pillar, leader of unsavory rep
utation even among the FilipinSs, but
a man Of great energy and strength Of
will, absolutely refused to move out of
the suburbs of Manila in response to
the orders of Aguinaldo, following the
asserted that he was unable to disci-
pline Pho del Pilar--but the truth Of
this statement cannot be vouched for.
He did finally succeed in enforcing
his orders by gradually Withdrawing
his troops from the command of Pillar,
until his force was too small to be
threatening. 1t was probably the
troops of Pillar which opened the recent
attack at Santa Mesa, and II has al
ways been with him and his men that
the most of the friction has been de-
veloped He sent his emmissaries into
Manila to collect taxes at the markets,
and it was he who appointed civil Off
GERS In the town, issued permits to the
Filipinos to carry arms, and on various
occasions made attempts to kidnap
Spaniards within the American lines
His brother, Gregorio del Pillar, is a
popular chief in the province Of Bula-
can, Tomaso Mascardo rules in the
province of Pampanga, and Macabulus
in the four rich provinces Of Pangasi-
nan, Nueva Ecija, Turlae and Fam
bales. The last has long been in the
north what Aguinaldo has been in Ca
vite-the peoples idol. He is a young
man not yet thirty, and has raised the
most important part of the insurgent
army, besides contributing, at his own
pleasure, considerable sums to the
treasury-all from the funds captured
in the rich monastical institutions of
the north. On one occasion, shortly
after the first insurgent congress was
held at Malolos, Macabulus sent thirty
five thousand dollars in cash to Aguin-
aldo; probably very small proportion
of what he had sequestered. But Ma
cabulus is even more independent than
the others | have mentioned. Agui-
naldo, who was naturally jealous of
the rising fame and power of the
northern chief, proposed on one occa-
sion to transfer him to the command
of detachment of troops in another
part of the island; but when Macabu-
lus heard of this. he sent word to the
dictator that If he wanted TO send him
away he would first have to conquer
his four provinces. These incidents
are only of Importance to chronicle be-
cause they show how little cohesion
there was among the insurgent forces
before the open rupture with our
troops. Time will show how much the
necessities of their new enterprise
will serve TO hold them together
against an active enemy.-Harper's
Weekly.