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CAPTURED FILIPINO LETTERS
PUBLICATION OF THOSE SEIZED
BY GENERAL FUNSTON
American Encouragement of the In
surSeMts Reliance of the Fiiipinos on
Party spirit I'm the United states.

SurSeNtS Reliance on tine tIilplhOs on
Party spirit I'm the United states.
Washington, Aug. 15-The War depart
ment has made public the Filipino CORE
spOndence captured several months ago by
General Funston'S command III Luzon. &c
was translated from the Spanish under the
direction Of Captain John K. NJ. Taylor OF
the Fourteenth infantry, who is III charge
OF iuSurgent records.
There Is IL letter from Montague Il. Ley
erson, dated at Fort Hamilton, N. u, July
II. 1899. and addressed to Senor Ii. Apacl-
Bile. 1t says:
Dear Sir and Brother--Our FRIEND Albert
S. parson Of Lexington gave me your name
as one to whom | should write as Il repre-
sentative Filipino. ! am member OF the
Anti Imperialist League OF - boston, o1
which George s. Boutwell, Is President ana
| Ewng Winslow Is Secretary. have pub
lished many articles and letters denouncins
the piratical war carried on by PresldehG
Mckinley against your people. lie ana
General Otis and all his troops are pirates
upon the territory of the natives. Our
Presidents are not in the positions of
kings. Our Presidents are not in the least
authorized to make war without me con
sent of Congress, as Mckinley is doing, and
all persons compromised in this war are
pirates
should like to suggest plan for you:
1t is this: You should seize some olllc e OF
rank in the service of the United States
and then inform the foreign consuls that
he was to be brought before council of
war for piracy, and write to said consuls
to have representatives present at su Gi
council of war to see that 1t Is legal. II
racy would be shown by conducting a war
in violation of the usages of civilized war.
and the proof would consist IN the fact OF
the consent to killing defenseless prison,
ers and non combatants, men, women anu
children, i'll cold blood, and in robbery by
officers and soldlers\ from non-combatants.
II | were not an old man of more than
sNgtll tnrrlu at
In your just defense.
l also suggest that the Filipino Congress
address the people Of the United States.
] shall not give you the heads Of this ap-
will especially influence the people. For
example IL reference to the Declaration OF
Independence must be Inserted, but ] be-
lieye that 1t is also necessary Tor you TO
made above to show that this war is pi..
racy, using them to bring out the want or
Christian feeling Of the soldiers. You must
also show that Mckinley keeps the people
true facts, that he and members of the cab
met have deliberately lied TO secure tho
ratification of the treaty of peace, with
Spain, without the clause which would have
they deliberately lied when they said that
Agoncilo advised Agunuldo to fight, and
that telegram stating the opposite was
intercepted; the war was advised from
treaty.
90 not fail to insist upon the atrocities
before mentioned, especially the assassina-
ton in cold blood of women aud children,
and the sack of the property of non COM
batants perpetrated by officers and soldiers,
especially by Il captain named OTIS, who
is believed to be, relative OF the general,
who not only took no steps for the punish
ment of the assassins, but who did not
even reprinland them. II you, can prove
that women have been violated, put that
also In your statement.
You should offer to prove all the atrocl-
ties before commission composed OF
three Americans named by the Congress OF
the United States and three Filipinos |
named by the Filipino Congress, and pre-
sided over by person Of some other na
not be an Englishman, for they are all as
sociated in the crime.
If the publication of any portion Of this
letter will be of any service, you can use
to keep it secret.
Do not forget to speak Of the American
squadron which blockaded your coasts,
them without warning to the |
non combatunts and peaceful towns, where
war would never have been thought, but
where now the greater part of the inhabit-
lnts who formerly were friends of the
United States, have taken arms to avenge
he deaths of their wives and sons. Also
speak of the refusal of the United States
md Great Britain to renounce the use of
explosive bullets, which was decided upon
II the conference Of the commissioners at
The Hague, and which the United States
ire now using, although their use was de-
as barbarous by the other commits
ioners at The Hague.
Ask the people of the United States IL
hey think that they are Christians, and
sk them how they can reconcile their pre-.
ended religion with their present conduct
oward Mckinley and his war.
Another letter, dated Singapore, June 10,
$40, from w. G. st. Clair. editor Of the
singapore Free Press, to Howard W. Bray,
discusses conversations which the writer
vas succeeded about that time by Consul
ONE suggestion that Pratt favored the
filipino cause, and the discussion related to
ave had with the Filipinos. st. Clair
axes little account of that but pins his
aith to what Admiral Dewey might say,
nd writes
0 advise the President on naval and colo.
ial affairs. He knows exactly what did
AXE place and what did not, and should
now if he had any ground to think that
he slightest promise was made by Pratt to
guinaldo He would declare it unauthor-
led and decline to act upon it, | am GER
ain Pratt reported what he supposed took
lace accurately; he had no surety on what
ously, you never mentioned anything to
e as TO the agreement having taken place
zen, nor in the paper you communicated
me was there any mention Of one, nor
id Pratt know of any. 1t is only more re-
,ntly that the fiction took shape. ''The
ish father to the thought" or the state .
ent repeated TIL 1t has become believed.
Now, j. would like to urge you from the
tactical point Of view to drop any such
,oishness. The vital thing, and nothing
Sc counts, is what Dewey said and did
hen he at last met Agninaldo. That, that,
lat, is the thing: all else is empty wind.
he sole thing to have impressed upon the
,biic In America would be the claiming OF
ewey and Aguinaldo together as partici-
ltors in common action; you surely com y
rhcnd what this means. Think, and think
,aiu IL means success as far as is posi- e
e. The other work is not only lost, but
,es not gain much sympathy, especially
is criticism of the conduct Of American
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