The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-15


'sDo not forget to speak of the American
squadron which blockaded your coasts,
bombaTding them without warning to the
non combatants ard peaceful towns where
war would never have been thought Ct, but
where the greater part of the inLIIbit-
ants who formerly were friends OF the Uni
ted States have taken arms to avenge the
deaths of their wives and sons. Also speak
OF the refusal of the United States and
Great Britain to renounce the use of ex-
plosive bullets which was decided upon IN
the conference of the Commissioners at
The Hague ard which the United Safes
are now using although their use was de
nounced as barbaTous BY the other Commits
sioners at The Hague.
Ask the people of the United States if
they think they are Christians and ask
them how they can reconcile their pre-
tended religion with their present conduct
toward Mckinley and his war.
This horrible war is a nightmare for
me- 1t may be folly for me to permit my
self 10 be affected by it. but its horror, the
C'hTEal nIamy OF il for my country, whose
people are preparing a state of slavery for
another, prevents me from sleeping
d" | can say nothing more but that it would
be well to let the people know that steps
are being taken TO introduce militarism
into the United States, some examples of
which can be shown from the conduct of
General Merriam in Idaho.
Very sincerely.
MONTAGUE R. LEVERSON."
Mote: Translated from the Spanish translation
of the original
7 certify that I believe this translation
to be correct.
JOHN R. NJ. TAYLOR.
Captain Fourteenth Infantry.
In charge of Insurgent Records.
manila. p. l., May s, 1900
VI. c. St. Clair TO Howard W. Bray.
Singapore, 18th of June, 1899.
Dear Bray:
Y have read your note TO Makepeace a.
ard am sorry you stiu complain OF fever.
Pratt today has made over charge to Nose
ly % 1 am sorry he is going; We had
many a pleasant talk together and he Is
sincerely a WelI-Wisher TO the cause Of
Honorable Liberty in the Philippines /
an sorry TO note what you say about his
action against Foreman's Book; CD that
action, OF course, in no way implies that he
at all changes his ideas and sympathies,
but It was-aEd I did not hesitate TO as
sure him sO-Quite necessary to vindicate
his integrity as consul. A man would
have been worse than a fool TO have posed
as making an agreement when his author
iIy is 50 strictly circumscribed- Dewey
quite approved of his action; some think
he should carry il further. I don't think
that ii is necessary as his publishers viii
insert a fly leaf with 4 full statement and
expression Of regret.
Il felt it to be my duty to let Pratt Know
that you still hold that you ard Santos
have evidence that will contIoyeIt his. He
was. OF course. extremely disappointed, be-
cause he was quite unaware OF what took
place IN Spanish and as to any tul ming OF
his conversation into a pretenCe at agree
ment he knows nothing. He says, very
truly: My own party. the Democrats, Will
say If they read this book: II this man
takes IT himself h 2 MEN sVriaTV
without authority. we had better not en-
ploy him any more" / frankly canrot IN
derstand your action. to its unWisdom
l have no doubt at all
Admiral Dewey goes home, it is be-
lieved 10 advise the President on naval
and colonial affairs. He knows exactly
what did take place and what did rot and
j should know if he had any ground to
think that the slightest promise was made
by Pratt to AguiLal6o he would declare
4 unauthorized ard decline to act on il.
/ an certain Pratt reported what he sup
posed took place accurately; he has no
surety on what you might have said, nat
urally.
And eurieusly. you never mentioned 10
me anything Of the agreement as having
taken place then, nor in the paper you
communicated to me was there any men
ton OF one. nor did Pratt know Of any. 1t
is only more recently that the fiction took
shape The wish father to the thought
or the statement repeated till it has be-
come believed by the -- "a, this is COM
mon.
Now I would like to urge you from the
practical point of view, 10 drop any such
foclishness. The vital thing and nothing
else counts, is what Dewey said and did
when he at last met AguinaIdo That
that, that. is the thing. all else is empty
wind.
Dewey IS somebody; Dewey is EVERY
BODY!i Do you think that the Ameri-
can people viii allow Dewey to get into
trouble? No, they will rather chuck Nc
kinley, do you see? Do you realize this2
You don't. If you did, and you would have
dropped all silly clamor about what Pratt
did and said, and you would have lost
sight Of the only fact worth a damn --
(5)-Dewey's actions-which is Alpha and
Omega OF the whole situation, do you not
see that that, and that alone. had any ex-
ecutive value, and that nothing has any
value but that?
Surprising that Pratt and Wildm2n had
covered inches Of paper with clauses and
put on ton of sealing wax as consular
seals, what pray, 10 any common sense
mind would all that have been worth?
Nothing! Nothing,I Nothing!!! And
yet where is the agreement where is the
seal? Where are there any signatures? And
if you had them-waste paper-believe me-
that all this potter about Pratt and Wild
man II energy nlSUH6CIS1- Inc sole tllng
TO have impressed upon the public in
America would be the claiming of Dewey
and Aguinaldo together as participators in
common action; you surely comprehend
what this means! Think and think again;
it means success as far as is possible. The
other work is not only lost but does rot
gain much sympathy, especially this criti-
cism of the conduct of American troops;
things may be true that are not expedient
to say Sink everything into Dewey
Aguinaldo cooperation; that was On both
sides honest even il it did not imply any
actual arrangement which, of course, Dew
ey himself could not make. That here you
have the factS-unGenied- incontroverti-
Bile. Dewey will, in America, insist on this
cooperation; he will do all he can to undo
the unfortunate effect of the event of
American militarism-a wedge between
him and the Filipinos. Dewey was helpless
in the face of the action OF God. He could
not really look with favor or with anything
but regret on his suppression by General
Merritt, and being cut off from communi-
cation with Aguinaldo. But Deweys turn
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