Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-14
AGUINALDO,
The lmpostor, Shown Up In Proper Light
An lnsoIent Threat

American advertising, a character in
teresting to all civilized people None
are interesting in perverting history
for his sake but the Bryan party in
the United States. 1t is known, the
proof, is official, certain, connected,
complete at all points, that he had not
been bribed and deported with his con-
sent but few weeks before he had
'pawned" his own word as a govern
ment." The only material he had was
a squad of refugees. in Hong Kong,
nearly all of whom were of his own
class, adventurers who had been
bought off by the Spaniards. The first
act assuming that there was a Fill
pino government in Hong Kong head
ed by Aguinaldo as president, was to
send the secretary of state to the gang
-"empowered with power personally
to make treaties"-and this treaty
maker wanted our consul to make one
with him. The capacity for self-gov-
ernment of the Filipinos is shown by
this fact They thought any Ameri-
can officer could make a treaty Of
fensive and defensive, and that is sub
stantially what Bryan and Pettigrew
think now or say they think. What
they tried to do was in two parts.
First, they wanted to invest the Span
tsh bribe in American guns and am
munition, and offered a bribe or 30 per
cent. to the United States to do some
smuggling
There never before in all history was
so dirty a proposal made to any re-
spectacle nation. But the next point
buy recognition of a little Chinese
boarding house job of government by
turning over to us two provinces MA
Mia and Cavite) and the revenues of
Manila, a million people and two mil
lion dollars year cash bribe" for
recognition of a squad of pirates in
Hong Kong headed by the dishonored
Aguinaldo as the government Of the
Filipino people.
There would not have been a more
base fraud imagined. 1t was an abom-
ination. This is the matter that Bry-
an has made fighting ground of
the presidential campaign. The Dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency
takes up the cause of Aguinaldo and
makes it his own and his PHILIPPINE
policy is that of Aguinaldo. Could any
thing show more dull-witted muddle-
headedness? e. ,.u.
These two things. First, Bryan tells
that his first things to do, if he should
be president would be to use the coun-
Try's neck with his extraordinary ses-
sion of congress to give the Philip
pine usurper, impostor and scoundrel
sions" of the Americans, who would
have been all right if they had accept
ed the bribed Agunaldo's bribe to give
away two provinces. This lis as bad
as could be for the degradation of oul
country. But there is something in
finitely worse. 1t is Bryans rushing
Never before in the record of the fol
lies of public men has any one o
Bryan's prominence doneanything dis
playing such british ignorance of in
ternational matters as this plunge in
to the Asiatic maelstrom and the a
vowed purpose TO exclude Europea
nations from the development of thei
policies in Asia. The foolishness of
is something horrible. 1t is not pos
sible that man who did this thin
shall be chosen president of the Unite
States. Caligulas horse could NJ
have had a dlstemper of ignoranc
quite as bad as this.
Our state department having proc
in its records that this government
of Aguinaldos manufacture was a
impostor and dishonorable, as we'll {
brutally and indecently ignorant, r,
fused the recognition after Aguinald
himself had set the example. That
what the Democratic Populistic part
goes boo-hooing about. 1t is wonde
full how the Democratic party, withol
the aid Of the POpulistis inventors ca
make of them selves-wild asses of II
desert.
NO formal agreement exists y
between the two nations wrote Agl
inaldo July "a, to General Thomas \
Anderson, the first of the United Stat
army to arrive at the seat of war
the Philippines. 1t is worth while
notice this date, July "a. 1898. II Il
United States had recognized Aguil
aldo it was not then. The letter is
full page 395 of the treaty of pea'
book, senate document No. 62. I'll
passage in the Aguinaldo letter fro
which We have quoted a sentence
this:
II consider it my duty to advise yC
Of the undesirability of disembarkir