The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-05
JUDGE GEAR A WITNESS his WORDS FOLLOW HIN.
LOPEZ UTTERANCEs SENT TO
MANILA.
Officials Here Warn the War Depart-
ment of How Sixto Talked so Much
With His Pen.

Sixto Lopez, emlssary of Aguinaldo,
Filipino diplomat and patriot, will find
himself under government surveillance
upon his return to his native shores.
Major W. w. Robinson and United
States Attorney Baird held consulta-
ton over the published sentiments of
Lopez and came to the conclusion that
the utterances of the Filipino were not
in accordance with pubic policy and
i'm the mind of the army branch OF the
government eminently calculated to
fan the flame of resistance in the Phil
ippines.
acung on these considerations. clip
pings from the press were sent to Gen.
b. NJ. Young commanding the depart
ment of California and also to General
Chaffee in Manila by Quartermaster
Major Robinson, the correspondence
fully forewarning the authorities of
the standpoint adopted by Lopez. Mai.
Robinson stated this mornine that he
did not think that it was wisest to
have published the news of the warn
| ing correspondence having been sent
to the authorities, but seeing that the
matter had become public frankly stat
ed what had been done.
United States Attorney Baird does
not consider the matter of the possible
causes for having arrested Lopez dur
! lie discussion the action taken by Maj
Robinson covering the necessary steps
warranted by the occasion.
! William A. Love who has just re-
turned from extensive travel on the
mainland following the close of the
college year at Harvard, was a fellow
passenger on the Sonoma with Sixto
Lopez.
or the past two years and more"
I q Ine,
pressing his views through the daily
and weekly papers and the magazines
| of the mainland. What he said at
tracted a good deal of attention, not
only from the subject matter but from
his polished English and controversial
ability. The Boston Herald, a republi-
can organ and q supporter of the ad-
minlstration. gave editorial expression
to admiration of the literary quality OF
Lopez writings. At the time Superin-
tendent Atkinson was appointed to go
to THE Philipuines, and the question of
sending school teachers there was
being discussed, Lopez wrote a series
of open letters on the subject, which
were extensively published and mucL
commented on. At every change in
conditions in the Philippines and on
every new phase of affairs there. he
has been interviewed in the mainland
press, ana ne mas poured constant
stream of contributions on the subject
of the Philippines and the Filipinos in
to every periodical in which he could
get them published.
"He has become very well known
in the east, and has acquired an excel
lent reputation among all classes, as a
man sincere and outspoken in his views
on a subject of much political interest.
And in all that he has written and said
he has expressed the same views and
the same opinions that he has express
ed here as reported in the local papers.
| These are in fact the same views that
have Leen repeatedly expressed by Sen
ator Hoar, and the anti-imperialists
| generally. and as a rule they have
been expressed in much less seditious
language than some of the antrim
perlaIists have employed. Yet, even in
the heat of a political campaign, l
never heard it seriously suggested that
he was exercising any other, than the
right of free speech, and certainly the
administl alton at Washington took no
steps against him.
II met him on the steamer coming
here, and discussed with him his favor
ite theme, as did others, and in all that
he said he gave expression to no senti-
ments that I had not already read In
his public utterances. Nothing that
has been published here as coming
from him will be new to the War De-
partment, or to any branch of the ad-
ministration."