The Irish standard., 1900-01-06
THE FILIPINO AMBASSADORS.

Wo representatives OF the Filipino
republic are now in Washington to seek
an audience with President Mckinley
concerning the form OF government
that his excellency OF Canton may be
graciously pleased to grant the Taga-
los in the event OF recognizing Ameri-
can authority in Luzon. Ii they do not
succeed any better than Aguincillo did,
their visit to the national capital will be
in vain. 1t will be remembered that the
former envoy OF Aguinado received
but scant courtesy from his imperial
hghness, and that he was obliged to
quit the country to avoid arrest on the
false charge that he was only rebe
spy. The Hanna Nc Kinley gang
brlgands want no parley with Filipino
patriots, but senators and representa-.
tivcs may listen to their propositions
and give them respectful consideration
The party of plutocracy will employ
their organs in bounding the ENJOYS
and fictitious interviews with them will
be sent out broadcast by the lying AS
sociated Press to prejudice the minds
OF the people against them and their
cause. Despite that fact, we think that
the Filipinos will not be subjected to
persecution like Aguincillo, and that
they will not be compelled to flee the
country through intimidation. Amer
lean sentiment is rapidly changing on
the Philippine question, and during
this year it is we'll that the Filipino
side be presented by these intelligent
natives. The people will listen to .1,er,
ii the peoples servants will not. In
referring to the Filipino ambassadors
the Chicago Chronicle says:
If the Filipino peace agents came to
this country with any expectation tina,
the powers that be in Washington
would listen to them with respect or
even patience, or would treat them 9TH
erwise than with coarse scorn, prob
ably they are already undeceived. They
have learned from imperial sources that
when the news OF their mission reached
the departments of war and state it was
received with sneering laughter.
1t was "hal,a! hobo! How absurd
How impudent! Did you ever hear OF
such thing as these damniggers COM
ing here to talk about terms OF peace!
Haven't they learned by this time that
they have no rights that this imperial
administration is bound to respect?
Hasn't Otis told them, hasn't our COM
mission told them, that there are no
terms Of peace-tlat the only thing for
them to do is to put their hands on
their mouths and their mouths in the
dust and take whatever kicks their new
masters may be pleased to administer?
The ;mDudent heasts' The time for
terms OF peace passed long ago and the
present campaign will be continued I'M
til there is not an armed Filipino SOL
der in the islands,"
They will find there a shameless rep
clifton Of the old ialschoods-the false
hood that the assertion by the Filipnos
of their right to be free and independ-
ent was rebellion; the falsehood that
this resistance to the evident purpose
of the administration to crush out their
| independence was "unprovokcd': the
falschood that the men whom the adj
ADMINISTRATION had used as allies in war
and then deliberately and treacherously
,, treated as vassals lowed us every obi
cation Of friendship; the falsehood OF
the implied assertion that the alleged
attempt to massacre Our soldiers was
made before lostilities began; the base
and gratuitous falsehood that Filipino
victory means anarchy, pillage. muir
der and savagery" the shallow false
hood that the concession to the Fill
pinos OF the independence which con-
gress has solemnly promised to their
Cuban interiors necessarily means the
abandonment of the Philippines any
more than it means the abandonment
of Cuba ITO the prey OF foreign ma
tions."
And if these official utterances do not