The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-06

cries Of the people and the sound of our
bugles. which were clearly heard there.
I Immediately ordered" the men who had
gathered. twenty. men in the district Of
Mamanti to hold themselves ready so
that when the designated hour arrived
they would be ready to go to Meisic.
where the American barracks are. and set
on fire the houses about there In order to
Interfere with their coming out from the
barracks. as was agreed upon in the
meeting with d. Rosendo Limon. The
result was that on marching to the scene
OF operations we found the Calzada of
Azearraga was filled with Americans, and
with them were number of our country
people, who cried out, Brothers. to the
strife, for now is the hour This is what
the men were saying to that crowd, and
at the proper time they sounded the call
Of our army, Advance and fire. ,"
These details which have thus given
you show the treacherous and barbarous
character Of the leading Filipino insur-
gents.
I have thus aimed, in this brief but au-
thentic narrative of Aguinaldo and his
insurrection, to show you the inception
and nature of the Tagal rebellion in Luz,
zon. and the character and purposes of
Aguinaldo and his military chiefs.
: 1t IL evident that lust of power and
seIf-aggrandizeme rather than
the real freedom of the FfI1pinOs,.
has been the aim and purpose of
Aguinaldo and his chiefs from the
beginning till the present time.
The insurrsction which he and they
started in 1896 they abandoned for q
price in December, 1897. When war came
on with Spain and Dewey was about to
start for Manila, they saw an opening
and easy way to start another insurrec-
ton. To Dewey they professed a desire
to aid him in expelling the Spaniards-
their hereditary tyrants and oppressors.
Among themselves they planned.
through the aid of Dewey and his
forces, to enter LuxOn, procure.
arms and start an fnsurrection, Os-
tensibIy against Spain, but really In
hostility to the United states. They
came to LuzOn under false pretenses
md with base treachery in their
hearts.
They had no sooner landed and gotten
their instruction af1oat and armed their
forces with weapons, furnished by Dewey,
than they began to open negotiations
with the Spanish commander, for the
purpose of combining with him to
expel our forces from Manila. Fail
ing to get this cooperation, they
laid siege to Manila for .the pur-
pose of capturing and looting 1t be-
fore the arrival of our forces When our
troops finally landed, they received them
in an untriendly and hostile spirit, and
continued to harass and annoy them in
various ways And when Manila was
captured by our forces, without their co
operation, and they were not permitted
to enter and loot the city, they threw off
the mask and assumed belligerent at
titude to our forces. They next opened
negotiations with Gen. Rios ct Iliolo, 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.
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 1t, except their
own people; and two brutal, though abor-
tive, attempts were made to carry out
the barbarous and demoniac plan.
If we study the records and proceedings
of their so-called government, 1t is APP
parent that it is nothing but pure
dictatorship-a mere military oligarchy
of Aguinaldo and his chiefs (all Chinese
Mestizos)-wit no basis of choice or con-
sent among the masses. 1t exists and is
tolerated, &lch as it is, through fear and
ignorance. Ignorace Of the Americans
their character and syste~ nj
rncnt: and fear ~
and armed followers. Is IT not p, 90
Amy unbiassa mind after studying Me
record OF Aguinaldo and his junta eyef
since the Instruction 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 greater mis-
fortune and greater calamity to hand the
Filipino people over to the mercies of
such a government than to have left them
in the hands Of the Spaniards. 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?
We acquired the islands fairly by
conquest, ratified and confirmed by
q treaty, which had the Endorsement
of Mr. Bryan. He WINS at Washing
ton ON the eve of it's ratification and
urged his party to join I'm ratifyfng
the treaty. The insurrectiOn of
1895 would never have had an I'm
ception nor hourished but for the
fact that our Nag was I'm the islands,
and permitted Aguina1do and his
chiefs to land.
Coming into the islands under our flag,
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 tenant, coming into possession by
the permission of his landlord, has the
right to question or set up hostile title
to the latter. We acquired, by conquest
and treaty, as complete a title to the
Philippine islands as to Porto Rico, and
We have taken no more steps to obtain.
the consent of the Porto Ricans than of
the Filipinos. The government we have
established for the Porto Ricans is gov
eminent we have given them, and not
government they have given themselves.
MERELY A TAGAL AFFAIR.
According to the most conservative
data, the Philippine group embrace an
area of about 10000 square miles and
population Of 1000, 900. Luzon has a little
more than one-third of this area and
little less than one-half of this population.
There are three different races and over
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