The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-11

TO the final conflict the FfIipinos were re-
peatedly informing our government that
they were never informed OF any purpose
on our part to subdue them.
"Eighth-That they were At for inde-
works Of art and education. They were
better educated than many American
communities within the memory of some
d as Except ney nn In orer snd au
justice, schools and complete constitu-
p S Tfs sep Sssq ed pf for
government than any country on the con-
tinent south Of us, from the Rio Grande
to Cape Horn ss0 Ps%sS OF aay
and are better fitted for self government
than some Of them now. They are as fit
a2s n 70 tsa s ay OF @
"Ninth-That the outbreak Of HOSTILE
ties was not their fault, but ours. A pa
preached a small village between the
lines of the two armies. a village on the
American line Of demarkati2n. to which
in disregard of the rule applicable to ali
cases. OF truce. When this patrol APP
ed ths ,STn It was CHALLENGED
language and how far our pickets under
stood. the reply that they made in their
own Language. does not appear. But we
turned from their lines. Thereupon It
was returned again from US and several
Filipinos were killed. As soon as Agui-
Gen. otls,. saying. that the firing was
without his knowledge and against his
Will; that he deplored It and he desired
his troops to any distance Gen. Otis
should desire, to which the American
general replied that as the fighting had
Tenth. That on the 18th of December.
1898, the two sides being at peace, although
great uneasiness and irritation had al
Filiplnos, who were afraid we meant to
subjugate them. President Mckinley sent
Gen. Otis proclamation. WHICH he COM
ing it. concluded that there were certain
words and expressions therein, such as
sovereignty right Of cession'. and 9TH
ers. which, though most admirably employ
ed and tersely expressive Of actual condi-
tons, might be advantageously used by the
Tagalo war party to incite widespread hos
t1ss anpns tes Gem nat oss proceed. to
amend the presidents proclamation by
striking from It everything which con-
tanned a purpose e assume soyereignty
future. political domination; and instead
thereof, he issued a proclamation in which
he suppressed all these utterances and
people Of the United States p to give Il them,
In every possible way. the full measure OF
Individual liberty, which Is the heritage OF
a free people. That assurance, which Gen.
Otis gave to the people OF Manila, is just
what have always wanted to give them.
But unhappily, Gen Otis proclamation
was frustrated. In the meantime he had
sent copy of the presidents proclamation
to Gen. Miller. who was lying opposite Ilo-
lilo, burning for fight and who, much to
Gen. Otis distress, as his dispatches show,
published It. So he had the commander
denying all purpose of domination or of
interfering with their independence, on the
one hand, and the president of the Uni
ted States, on the other, asserting that to
be the purpose, and the F1lipinos were ma
turally alarmed and shocked.
Otis Not to Blame.
Now. put yourselves, men of Essex, in
the place Of these Fflipinos. What would
your fathers have done II Gen. Gage and
Lord North had been the actors? What
would any people on the face of the earth,
whose bosoms are capable of holding the
sentiment of liberty, have done? Is it
not Infamous for anybody to turn around
and tell you that the men who believe
that the Filipinos should have been as
sured of just what Gen. Otis tried to as
sure them, are responsible for the out
break OF the war? Gen. Otis says that
the proclamation which actually came out,
through Gen. Miller's departure from his
intentions, was calculated to cause, and
did cause hostilities and excite alarm and
Indignation in the bosoms of that freedom
seeking DeOple"