The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-02

OF S|XTO
He Says FiIipinos
Will Keep on
Fighting.
must HAVE
INDEPENDENCE
The Visiting Propasandist Says
He Has a Program to Work
Out at Manila.

Sixto Lopez. the Filipino representa-
| tive who came to Honolulu on the
Sonoma, will leave tomorrow on the
Gaelic. He goes first to Japan where
he will remain couple of weeks. then
proceed to China, where after visit of
a few days he will take a steamer to
J Manila.
| What he will do on his arrival in the
Philippines. Lopez will not say, though
he has program mapped out, and one
which it is strongly suspected might not
meet altogether with the approval of
the United States government
II have my program all mapped out
when I get to the Philippines. said he
te an Advertiser reporter yesterday.
What it will be cannot tell you. You
will learn the result, however. in short
time after I get there. No. do not
know whether 1 will see Aguinaldo or
not.''
when I was in the States sent a
to the United States. if he was permit
ted, but received no reply. I can't tell
whether he got the message or not. 1t
would be a good thing if he was al
lowed to go TO Washington. He is
much misunderstood, 1 think, and If he
was allowed to go to the States he could
explain many things to the satisfaction
iof the American people, which they need
to know"
/ II have not been in communication
with Aguinaldo since leaving Manila, as
I was in America as a private citizen,
and consequently could not keep up a
correspondence with him. I have how
ever been receiving letters from prom
inent Filipinos, not those in the field.
but citizens who are neutral but who
write that they still hope some day to
attain independence.
/ mo, we cannot hope to defeat the
American armies, but we can defend our
country against the invaders. That is
what we call the Americans and the
Filipino will fight for his home to the
last.
people here no doubt are all annex
at onists; they want the trade from the
Philippines, I suppose. In the United
States the Filipinos have some friends,
in Chicago and the East. Here they are
all expausionists.
I'VE do not want a protectorate or to
become territory. all we want is our
independence. What does the American
know about our government? That Is
a question we should be left to decide
There is an old Spanish saying, some
thing like this "A fool in his own home
knows more than wise stranger You
believe in the wise stranger; then you
must believe in the divine right OF
kings For that is what America Is
surely coming to, II independence Is
denied the Filipino.
You say we are not capable of self
government Who il to decide that. you
or &c people who should be allowed TO
say what they want? The Filipinos as
sisted in the government when the
Spaniards had control. They are able
to govern themselves. What your peo-
pie fought for, was mo taxation with
out representation We do not intend
to be governed without QUE consent.
The capture of Aguinaldo will not
affect the fight for liberty. Would the
death of Washington have affected your
American revolutiop? Aguinaldo. your
papers said, was great and good man,
while he was assisting in the war
against SpaniardS. He was a born
Washington, a hero and patriot. Then
" hen he took up arms against the in
vaders, he became a bandit; he was
treacherous and barbarous and not to
be trusted. Has Aguinaldo changed or
has IT been the American people? Hos
tilities were not opened by the Filipinos
as the American press has claimed. IL
perhaps one or two natives happened to
go through the lines and were shot. that
was no need for a general outbreak of
hostilities. i believe the outbreak was
pure aceioent. AS to the ulterior
motives. If such existed, which induced
the American soldiers to fire the frst
shot and shed the first blood, I viii ex-
press no opinion. But I am firmly con-
vinced that il the commander of the
American forces had adopted the policy
pursued by the Philippine army. of sim