Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-25
FWLPIhOS GRATEFUL 10 BRYAk.

The following is a translation of an ar
ticle printed in the Filipino rebel organ,
La INDEPENDENTLY. of October %. 1899, a
O of which was captured by General
Wheaton at San J~acinto, Province of
Pangasinan, Luzon:
A message of gratitude to the illustrious
democrats of the United States, the true
representatives of the institutions found
ed on the liberty proclaimed by the great
men Of the North American republic
that is the object Of the meeting which
will be held tomorrow in the capital of
the nation.
The meeting of tomorrow was rga
lied in the palace of the president upon
the initiative of the sons of that great
liberal association which dominates this
century, and who have interpreted very
we'll the feelings of the people and the
desires of the government. The pro-
gramme of this great meeting will be as
follows: At 9 in the morning the meet
ing will be opened to- the strains of the
national anthem. after which there will
be speeches by the notabilities of the
government and the army. At 4 in the
afternoon there will be a popular mani
festation. Bands of music will parade
through the streets, and the public builo-
ings and private dwellings will be dec
grated with Nominations and a
All these preparations that have been
under way for several days. and are GER
tainly worthy of the illustrious chief of
the anti-imperialist party. American by
birth he has been educated IN and he
practices the teachings of tine greatest
presidents of the United States: and for
this reason he cannot consent that the
ambition for power should send to a
futile and ~dishonorable sacrifice the sons
of free America: n for this reason he
has ~sympathized with the cause of Presi-
dent Aguinaldo who recently was ac-
claimed as one of the heroes of the GEN.
fury, continuing in the path that had i'm
mortalized Washington, Monroe and JEFF
ferson. The history of the Philippines
ought to inscribe in it's pages of gold the
name of this great American, the knight
of justice, of that ideal justice % which
lola spoke in an address to French
youth.
In the war which we waged with the
old sovereignty. Rial was the divine
inspiration, Aguinaldo was the arm
which put it in execution. In the pres
sent conflict Bryan replaces the great
martyr. What sublime lessons for our
enemies themselves they find among
their own brothers,, who combat the in
justice they strive to commit upon a
feeble people! Behold what lofty justice
If indeed there can be gradattons in
iustice-permeates our cause, when 1t
finds champions, not only among foreign
ers, but even among the very sons of the
great republic.
lnGI6 ought, lucI, ASuIC III lAApiAAO
history with the same measure of exalta-
ton Rial, Bryan and AguinaldO, The glo-
rious trinity of our political redemption;
n upon the foreigner, because although
he carries Anglo-Saxon blood in his veins,
nevertheless defends our cause, we ought
to look with the same generation as upon
our greatest martyrs and heroes. Bryan
by blood is an American; by his ideas
an illustrious son of the Philippines.
Bryan is the clasp that links and uni
fes the aspirations of two friendly peo-
pies, laboring for the same causes and
worthy of the admiration and applause
of the world. The American people are
not hostile to the Filipino people. The
people have been all the time the vic
tins of the concupiscence of the power
full. AS the president of the republic has
said, it is not a war of one people against
another. but of a party against a nation,
which, if weak in forces, is gigantic In
heroic spirits and sublime sacrifices. A
thousand times there have been mani
festations of that spirit which joins the
Filipino people to the American In clubs
and juntas and associations and meet
ings
Therefore it is a debt of gratitude, and
due to friendship. the manifestation that
the people will make tomorrow In honor
of Bryan and the party which he directs,
representatives of the true sons of the
union, God grant that Al a time not dis
tant we may see the aspirations of the
two friendly peoples fulfilled!
Meanwhile, the committee on organi1a-
lion will accept our Fluctuations upon the
conception of so happy an idea that In
terprets so faithfully the desires of the
Filipino people, among whose deeds OF
nobleness will figure the grateful ac-
acknowledgement of all those who. yester-
day and now, have been interested in
the Justice of their cause