Evening star., 1900-08-15
FILIPINO METHODS
Shown by Incendiary Correspondence
Captured.
EFFORTS OF ANII-lMPERIALIsrs
Insurectionists Encouraged toFight
the United States.
S U G G E S TON AIDE
S U G GE S TIONS ADE

The War Department made public today
a batch of incendiary correspondence can
tured by Gen. Funston in one of his sud
den and successful attacks on the Filipino
insurgents. 1t throws considerable light on
Filipino methods and the efforts of certain
American anti-imperialists to encourage the
insurrectionists and create sympathy for
them in the United States and elsewhere.
The entire correspondence was in Spanish
and was translated by Capt ]. r. NJ. Tay-
lor, 14th Infantry. in charge of insurgent
records. 1t has not yet been arranged in
systematic order and is by no means COM
plete.
Boston Mans Unpatriotic Utterances.
One of the letters was written by Mon
tague R. Leverson Of the Anti-Imperial-
i:tic League of Boston to Senior G. Apacible
a prominent insurgent. 1t is dated July II,
1899. The following extracts show its un-
patriotic character:
Il have published many articles and let
ters denouncing the piratical war carried on
by President Mckinley against your people
He and Gen. Otis and all his troops are
pirates upon the territory of the natives
Our Presidents are not in the least 'au-
thorized to make war without the consent
of Congress, as Mckinley is doing, and all
persons compromised in this war are pi-
rates.
Il should like to suggest a plan to you
1t is this: You should seize some official 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 such coun-
Gil of war to that it is legal.
Piracy 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 pris-
oners and nOn-combatants, men, women and
children, in cold b'ood, and in robbery by
officers and soldiers from non-combatants.
Some More suggestions.
II suggest that the Filipino congress ad-
dress appeal to the people of the United
States
You must show that Mckinley keeps
the people of the United States in ignor-
ance of the true facts; that he and the
members of the cabinet have deliberately
lied to secure the ratification of the treaty
of peace with Spain without the clause
which would have assured the liberty of
the Philippines.
do not fail to insist upon the atrocities
before mentioned, especially the assassina-
ton in cold blood Of women and children
and the sack of the property of non-com-
batants perpetrated by officers and SOL
dierS.
II you can prove thdt Wotlen nave pee'l
violated put that also in your statement
Another letter is a short one from Apoli-
nario Mabini. president of the Filipino
council, dated February l. 1899, showing
clearly that negotiate had been started
with the Spaniards in Zamboanga to help
the insurgent cause
There is long partly undecipherable
letter from w. G. st. Clair to Mr.. Howard
W. Bray, dated singapore, June III, 1879,
strongly advocating the cause of the Fill
plnos and suggesting that they place their
reliance on Admiral Dewey's champion
snip OF their cause in the United States
In part Mr.. st. Clair says:
Reliance on Admiral Dewey.
"adnira1 Devev poas home II is believed
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70 au'ise tie iresiueh' oh naval anu CO.
lonial aHa1rs. He knows exactly what did
take place and what did not and l should
know II he had anv ground to think that
tho s,i.btast n-or,isa uas made hv pratt
to Aguinaido he would declare 1t unauthor-
lied and decline to act on 1t. The vital thing
and nothing else counts, is what Dewey
said and did when he at last met Agui
naldo That that, that is the thing-all else
is empty wind
"Dewev is somebodv Dewev 10 everv.
body, DO you think that the American peo-
pie will allow Dewey to get into trouble?
No; they will rather chuck Mckinley do
you see! Do you realize this? You don't!
If you did you would have dropped all silly
clamor about what Pratt did and said. and
you would not nave lost sight or the only
fact worth a d-n-Dewey's actions-which
is the Alpha and Omega of the whole sit
uation. Do you not see that, and that alone
had anv ey.cut,ra ,,oira ~ tbat ,,oth
ing has any value but that? All this potter
rantaa ~ anu % Wiiulali IL eiiei sy :', lilsui
upon the public in America would be the
claiming of Dewey and Agunaldo together
as participants in common action. 1t means
specess ,' as iar as IS possioie. SINK every
1iiat IH was on ooth sides honest even II II
uih hot imply any actual arransement,
Hiiich u course, Dewey hlmseii couid not
mar ,hahe dewey viii, IN America, insist on
@ ,ilis cooperation. lie Will do all he can to
undo the unfortunate effect of the advent
OF american milltarism-a wedge between
M nm 4 ana the F1iipinos. Dewey was helpless
IN 'he lace OF the action OF God He could
no. ieaiy look with favor or with
sion by General Merritt and being cut
or or, rom communication with Aguinaldo.
but DeWeys turn for power in colonial
a1airs an; is coming I believe-I must not