Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-11

price In his pocket. he offered his SER
vices to the Americans in harassing the
Spanish land forces. He was permitted
ID enlist and equip for that purpose Il
very considerable army of his old fol-
lowers, and when he was denied the
privilege Of sacking Manila after it's
capitalization. and learned that the sover-
eighty Of the islands had passed by
treaty to the United States, he with
drew to the interior with his army. set
up an independent government of his
own over the entire archipelago and
challenged our government to con-
test for it's possession.
In this audacious undertaking he was
encouraged by the clamors of an anti
expansion sentiment in the United
states, confined mainly to the demo-
cratic party. urging the REIMBURSEMENT
OF our sovereignty over the Philippines.
and recognition of the independence of
the people of the group. But Aguinaldo
was not concerned in the Independence
OF the people. What he hoped for was
the political abandonment of the islands
by our government under democratic
pressure. thus giving him a free hand
in dealing with a situation virtually
under his control. Whatever might be
the result to the people of the archipel-
ago. there was promise in it of gain
ard glory to him. He knew the political
unity Of the half hundred or more tribes
OF the islands to be an utter imprac-
tcahility under any autonomous scheme
Of federation possible to be devised. He
knew the most of the tribes to be in
capable of unaided elf-government-n-
ca pa BILE. even. of establishing and main
tanning amicable and orderly political
slat with thaV- Nd
peal for the independence of such peo-
lie was nothing less than an assertion
Of their right to make a piratical as we'll
as a political pandemonium of a great
sroup of islands which the worlds COM
merce has brought within the pale of
| civilization His dream waS-had the
| islands been abandoned to native rule
, the organization of civil or military
| Clgarchies Throughout the archipelago
| reserving to himself the dictatorship of
he island of Luzon and the rich reve-
rues of the port of Manila.
But Aguinaldo really did not know
what he wanted within the limits of
reason or possible achievement. Return
N ms to Manila after he had sold himself
into exile, he suddenly became involved
n events and conditions whose import
| he was utterly unable to comprehend
| FlIltlllS HllllSell at the uedu OF an armed
| rabble of Filipinos outnumberng the
American soldiery in and around Manila
ignorance and vanity persuaded him
that he was master of the situation, and
| in condition to dictate terms instead
Of asking favors. Day by day he added
feather to his cap and swelled with
Importance. until he at last proclaimed
the independence of the islands. in the
| face of the treaty of Paris. and declared
the victorious Americans to be unwar-
| ranted trespassers on the soil of Luzon
| Having invoked the storm he filled the
air with proclamations appealing to his
| followers to die in the last ditch, and
| thereafter spent the most of his time
in searching for hiding places in the
mountains, in the last and most mac
cessible of which he was trapped by
Funston. Washington! A Bolivar!
He may be Mr.. Bryan's type of hero
but the world will come nearer accent.
ing Secretary Longs estimate of him
Implied in the remark that as a punish.
ment for his misdeeds he ought to be
snanked with a shingle.-San Francisco
Chronicle.