The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-13
FILIPINO BOYCOTT
CONTEMPLATED
Against the United States, En-
forced by a Secret Order.
10000 AMERICAN TROOPS
VIII BE Required to Keep the Fiiipinos
In subjection If President
McKinleys Policy Is
Pursued.

San Francisco, April 1O.-The most
gigantic boycott in the history of the
world is suggested by Alva Udell, of
Strockton, Cal, as an instrument to
force the United States to recognize
the independence of the Philippine
islands. Udell is an accredited agent of
the Filipinos in this country, and al
though he has not appeared prominently
before the public in their behalf, the
amount of work he has done with
members of congress and other national
legisations is enormous. He bears let
ters from all of the prominent Filipino
revolutionists, and is a bitter opponent
of the policy of Imperialism as it is now
being conducted by the president and
his advisers.
Udell says that the fighting In the
Philippines is practically over, but that
it will require force of at least 10000
American troops to protect the nom
combatant Filipinos from the depreda-
tions of guerillas If the present policy
is pursued to it's logical conclusion. With
the approval of Aguinsldo and the
Philippine central committee at Hong
Kong he has drafted a specimen con-
stitution for a Filipino republic, which
has been submitted to and approved by
the most prominent Filipinos in the
revolutionary movement. They are tired
of war, Udell says, but they will re-
sist to the last any attempt to make
them dependencies of the United tates,
with no hand in their own government.
SECRET ORDER BEHIND 1T.
The movement contemplates a Fill
pino boycott of the United States-an
absolute boycott-enforced by a secret
order in the Philippines that has, it is
asserted, 25OOOO members, and can be
made to embrace every man in the
archipelago who produces a pound of
anything available for export or con-
sumes pound of anything available
only by import. Trade with other
countries is to be encouraged, If this
remarkable scheme is carried out, but
the commercial field in the prolific
islands is to be absolutely barred to
the United States.
This boycott is to be ere long, held as
a club to force the United States to con-
sent to the adoption of the Philippines
constitution already referred to.
The specimen constitution was copied
by Udell from the first organic law Of
the United States, the present constitu-
tion of this country and the constitution
of California. 1t was submitted to the
Filipino cabinet in June 1899, and unani-
mously endorsed, despite opposition to
it on the ground that it did not restrain
unlimited American emigration. Udell
told the Filipinos that the document
took them out of the outlaw class, gave
them the protection of the United States
and guaranteed them prosperity and
peace for the first time in hundreds
of years. They yielded on the only
ground of objection-the emigration
question.
UDELL'S STATEMENT.
Udell has prepared a lengthy state
ment setting forth all the main points of
the specimen constitution. He then ex-
plains the proposed boycott as follows:
In the event an agreement is reached
with regard to fundamental matters
assure you that an early pacification of
all the civilized inhabitants of the
Philippines will certainly follow, and to
that end the loyal cooperation of the
Filipino leaders may be safely relied up
on. But, in case no agreement is reach
ed, there can be no beneficial assimila-
tion with the people of the islands, either
for social, industrial or commercial
purposes, as measures are being rapidly
perfected, by peaceful means, to prevent
it, as well as to strengthen the spirit
of the Philippine people in their internal
demand for independence. This will be
fully explained in a letter, dated the
18th Of December. last. and written to
Senator w. V. Allen at Washington,
with which / enclose a non-intercourse
plan, framed along the lines of the
Virginia non-intercourse resolutions of
1874, but adjusted to the Philippine situ-
alton, and under which the entire
Philippine population can be organized
into a secret society, or labor union,
having for it's fundamental purposes
the non-importation from the United
States Of any raw materials, manu-
factures, goods, wares, or merchandise
whatever by the members of the society,
none of whom will purchase from any
person whomsoever any such articles
directly or indirectly imported from any
part of the United States after Septem-
ber /, 1901 nor will they after that time
sell any article to any person who might
directly or indirectly export the same to
the United States.
TO RESTRICT CULTIVATION.
Members of the society will refrain
from cultivation or manufacture, either
by thier labor or otherwise, of any and
all articles of commerce that may be
profitably exported to the United States,
nor will the merchants, manufacturers
or other inhabitants in the Philippines
barter or exchange any article of COM
merce or other commodity with any
person opposed to the aims of Filipino
independence, nor will they, either di-
rectly, or indirectly, employ or aid the
employment, at home or abroad, of any
person opposed to the aims of Filipino
independence, nor will they enter the
employ or be employed by any person
opposed to the aims of Filipino inde-
pendence.
Any merchant or trader or other
person or persons who import or export
any goods or merchandise contrary to
the plrpOaeH of the society or WIN