The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-03-17


saas aaa flem 10 shipl 80 say Al
limss sbeils sfs fslins hai 90
haniFti fafit 10 ifenl ~ the Amsf'
tsn lines The hpif plteef saved sst
efai rommanaf TIVE brash az fsll
~ natives eho could shoot men 81 A
fanfe ~ = fse bees When n was
learned that A. many fest vsts w
the srass the erass Vas moved, literal.
lly. With the machine suns afawn b,
hand and by the use ~ native p,niss
a. wss q frishtful slaughter aud an ~.
fectlye rout ~ the natives The priest
said he sas ready TO accept the STATE.
ment that some ~ the Indians used nv
Aeuinsldo In the determined assault
upon the city really were anacausinted
Win the effectiveness ~ firearms and
that some Of them who knew guns not
at all believed when they were told
that the rifles could not harm them.
some OF the negritos and Indians from
the back districts dearly love Co be
warriors, at whatever cost Aguiualdo
has for a long time had a lot Of his
men so Infatuated with the cause that
they would never hesitate for an in
slant to commit murder 10 secure a
from the undsrbrush tina; the Filipinos
are most dangerous. One stranger tn
the country could pass within very
short distance OF large forces of con-
cealed men without having any notion
whatever Of their presence. IL Is TO
be wondered that the efforts at am
bushing were not more successful. But
for the ships In the harbor and the field
guns the infantrymen would have
Jared badly.
Il saw Aguinaldo on ce." said the
priest, and one OF my brothers at the
mission gave him a blessing. But we
did not know who Il was till after
wards. He was In our neighborhoOd
; secretly melting the natives to rice
lagainst the Government when the time
came. He is crafty, Is a good organ
izer and Il seems marvellous how he can
inspire his followers with confidence
and cause them to be so savage that
the old tales OF the Spanish fighting
with the natives and the natives fight.
ing amongst themselves. when hand &C
hand encounters were numerous. are
entirely forgotten. or cannot be used
as comparison"
with all persons coming from Manila
! in admiration for Admiral Dewey. The,
j simply say that he Is the greatest OF al
Q Americans and the incarnation of al
I that should be within a man to con
). quer and to rule. The military auth
critics were also kind 10 the priests.
All of the priests are imperialisti
J. without knowing that word. They ga!
y the United States should send goot
e men to hold Offices and apply the law
all over the groups and all through tn,
l. East in China and Japan. "Admira
: dewey could do for ALL" remarked tn,
j admiring young priest naively.
As one final clause to the financia
equation, the leader of the father
i wished to make 1t plain that under tn
state arrangement large portion o
u the revenue raised by the church IL
the Philippines was used for the main
= tenance in Spain of monasteries II
which men for work In the Philippine
were prepared. And Aguinaldo's mel
u said 1t was for this, for one thing, tina
: the priests must be killed-becaus
! they had been educated at the publ
o lexpense. Oh. but some of the brother
J. We're killed horribly. l tell you, som
,. lof them were torn TO pieces. not give
u the poor blessing OF a bullet or a dag
e ger or a stone. The rebels have bee
y of the people"
These thirteen priests all trayele
&c Icabin, but looked worn. All wore lon
black gowns and nearly all OF then
smoked Filipino cigarettes