The Yale expositor., 1900-09-21
indications that the Democratic Leader and
the Filipino Insurgent Have Very Sat
isfactory Mutual Understanding
aCUINsLDo WANTS US TO SUPPORT HIS REPUBLIC.
We Are Hold the Bag and Keep Off Other Nations While
lis Is TO Get All the Benets-AguinaldO Admitted that
lis People We're Divided to Policy

subject of a protcctorate for some time
without getting any satisfactory results
Mr.. Higgins "a friend OF Whittier who
accompanied him) felt that AguinaldO
had been simply repeating lesson, but
did not feel SO sure of that. Bucn Ca
mino, close friend of Aguinaldo, was
present ut this conversation, but came
in and gave his opinion--he was an init
mate OF AguinaldO-that the President
was in favor of an American protecto-
rate.
Certainly he would be if it was the end
Of a series Of propositions such as Bryan
has presented to the American people,
which proposed plainly the turning over
to Aguinaldo the American army and
navy whenever he has n government in
his own hands stable as to his authority
and independent OF any other authority.
Then the time comes when the protec-
torate will be vital.
The American duty as n protector is to
stand of the powers named by Whittier
England, Russia, France, Germany,
and Japan is 10 be included, and what
are Americans to get for all this?
We have already the answer of Agu-
naldo: a detail to be considered here
after"
1t is n question whether the Americans
are TO pay their expenses while in the
service of Aguinaldo. Aguinado's state
ment of what he meant was made more
than two years ago. He said the same
thing to me, with little less detail, OH
the 9th Of August 1898.
The Democratic party has submissivcly
embodied the AguinaldO plan in its plat
form, and Mr.. Bryan has exploited it in
his speech. and as a personal contribution
he has slung in the Monroe doctrine in
such way that if he were President of
the United States he would have the al
tentative of backing squarely out Of it,
or warning with all the nations of Eu-
rope that are determined to pursue their
colonial system.
1t is well known that there has been q
good deal of correspondence between the
malcontents of this country and the in
surgents Of the Philippines, and the
symptoms are that Bryan and Aguinaldo.
who constitute mutual admiration So
cety. have been directly or indirectly in
confidential communication.
Why not Directly
Each OF them would feel himself hon
orcd TO have so distinguished Il CORE
] spondent. They have much in common.
Each anticipates being the ruler of his
own country and is in Il state of conf
dcncc that he is going to be.
The first thing Bryan would think
about would be Of soothing the enemy he
denomnatcs "our ally" by entering into
an alliance with him, offensive and de-
fensive. This would require good deal
of letter writing and they have worked
their three points down fine. The Philip
pine resolution i'm the Democratic plat
I form and the Philippine proposals of Mr.
| Bryan in his acceptance speech are in
the nature Of protocol, and If the Unit
cd States is ready To submit to serve
/ Agunaldo as Il protector, and do it for
nothing, maintaining a great fleet and
army to do it with, Aguinaldo would not
be foolish enough To offer objections.
Bryan offers him plainly to play his
! game and has put in the Monroe doctrine
as trump card to scare Europe. Bryan
/ has invested everything he has got in the
Malay business.
There is a striking resemblance in one
respect between Aguinaldo and Bryan
Neither has ever been elected President.
! but both are assuming the duties OF the
Office. each atttudinizes as the personifi-
: cation of the nation.
/ Bryan hasn't as yet appointed himself
to anything. Aguinaldo can teach him
each that he is hy and for and in himself
an l. Pluribus Unum.
MURAT HALSTEAD.