Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-07

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gof W lions n 1Ss found u he rC set
s.kxsArra sa swas f,llsd With Amsricx ana
With them Wsrs y nunbsr ofS ON country
people. who Scrisd out, sBroth era Ao M
strife, tor now ~ the hour.s II NJ iss yyalat
10 men were saying tai thar crowd md
\ ~ Tho proper time hey sounded tho Sall
Sok our army. III AdyancsSa and nrs. s
These "details which ShavS thus atySn
you show ths trsanherous ana ba1baS 6us
character " ~ ding Filipino sinsarr,
III have thus aimed, lin tlas brisf but ~
Sthenuc narrativ Of AguinAido ana shis
insslrrsctio Ion Il 70 show you 4 the INCEPTION
and nature Of, the TASal rebellion in Isiik
son and tho character and purposeS sso<
Ag,Mnaldo aS,d hts$ mil chiefs. M
y Il Al. evident that list ~ 5psvysR and
self-a49raAA isement ,S u ia - k1 * SsS8 t1lAA
& thes&feSlE freedom a0k the FlllllMoa,
/, has been the aim aAa puEp 0sA ai0l
B Agu1naldo and his chiefs 1Fon the
abeElnning till the present tic. ,ss8s
The insnrrection which ,he ana they
started In 1896 they abandoned for =
price In December 1897. When war came
on, with Spain and Dewey was about 10
start for, Manila, they saw IN opening
and easy way to start mother jnsurrsc.
ton. To Dewey they protested desire
/ to aid him In expslling the %spaniar
their hereditary tyrants and oppr essors.
Among Themselves Il they planned.
through the aid o. Dewey and Ms
h 1Orces, to enter e LusOn, proc ure
tensilly against Spsin,$ but Fsallys n
hostility to the United States. They
came to Luson under false peefenses
an rdt with D base treaehery A. Az l. vi
hearts. $ + hi, + h $, B.$ IN IN n H 5 sS$
They had no sooner landed and gotten
their Instruction ahoat and armed their
forces with weapons, furnished by Dewey.
than they began to open negotiations
with the Spanish commander. f0f the
purpose. o. combining with him to
expel our forces from Manila. gesf Fall
ing to get this cooperation. they
laid siege Z to Manila for the pur-
pose Of; capturing and footing I'll! ~
fore the arrival Of our forces When our
troops finally landed, they received them
In an untriendly and hcet tile spirit, and
continued TO harats ana annoy them in
various ways. And i whom Manila Il as
captured by our forces, without their o.
operations, and they were not permitted
to enter and loot the city they threw 81
the mask and assumed q belligersnt IT.
titudo to our forces. n They next opened
negotiations with Gen. Rios ct niolo, for
the purpose OF making common cause,
and combining him against our forces
and through his pliancy they secured pos
session Of the city before the arrival Of
our forces., a s%s.i t,$sSs; y
When Manila surrendered and there
were no longer any Spaniards to fight.
they renewed their siege against the city
and our forces with increased vigor. They
planned to burn, sack and loot the city.
and TO- strike down and slaughter every
living human being In II, except Their
own people; ana two brutal. though abos.
tive, att empts were made so carry out
the barbarous and demoniac plan. ID:
= II westudy the records and 'procsedings
OF their so-called governmental To- ap-
parent that 1t is nothing but . pure
dictatorshipa mere military oligarchy
.of Aguinaldo and his chiefs Call Chinese
Mestdzos) with no basis Of choice or con-
sent amsng the $masses. IT exists and Is
tolerated. such al It Is, through fear and
.ignorance. Ignorace :5of the Americans.
their character and system of govern
ment;; and fear Of Aguinaldo,3 his junta
and armed followers. u Is Il not plain to
any unbiased mind. after studying the
record Of Aguinaldo and his junta ever
since the INSURE ton OF 1896, that 1t is
as much our moral .duty#to relieve the
Filipino people from the incubus and
tyrrany OF this military oligarchy as Of
Spanish .rule? It would be 4 greater mis-
fortune and greaterScalamity TO hand the
Filipino people over to the mercies of
such government than to have left them
in the hands, Of the spaniards.}g Is 1t not
our moral as well as our legal duty TO,
suppress, first Of. ALL this Instruction,
started under such, false pretenses with
such treachery and under such auspices
and leadership as this Tagal rebellion In
Luzon 81. ii, n i; 4 StFSs. Ss|1r =,
We acquired the islands fairly by
,conquest. ratified and conArmed by
z treaty. Which r had the u. lin Ind orsenaent
5of Mr.. bryan. He#was ut Washfng-
ton ON the eve Of its ratillca tlon and
urged his party to Join In ratifyinE
the IL treaty. The iasurrectiOn Of
1903 would never have had m in
cepttOn nor hourished hut for the
fact that ouR Ear was In the islands,
and permitted ,AEuiaaIdo ana his
schiefs2to land, II 4S +. III by! tsE; & A..
u Coming into the Islands under our nag,
our protection. and our assistance, as
they did. Aguinaldo and his chiefs had
no more legal or moral right to set up
claim or, title hostile to the United States
than a tenant, coming Into nOsses nv