Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-04-24
DEMOLISHES A FALSEHOOD.
EylnE,ath cite Friends of AguinaIdyc
Left Their FavOrite
Theme,

The anti-administrat ton people, in
GLIDING by that term the so-called
anti-imperialists and the democratic
party as organized under Bryan on a
so-called anti-imperialist platform,
have, ever since they gave their sympa-
tnies and allegiance to the enemies of
the United States in the Philippines,
stuck with almost heroic tenacity to
the falsehood that the United States
forced the conflict on the innocent"
Filipino in February, 1899, in order to
get votes in the senate for the ratifca-
ton of the treaty % Paris.
1t is interesting to note that, in ad-
dition to all the strong evidence to the
contrary furnished by the United
States authorities, which has been ig-
nored and brushed aside by the Amer
lean sympathizers with Aguinaldo, the
Philippine Information society of
Boston, which with undisguised SYM
pathy with the Filipino insurgents,
has been Publishing tracts for some
time purporting to give the exact
truth about all the occurrences in the
Philippines since Aguinaldo came
upon the scene, has in the tract num-
Der seven assembled all the evidence,
documentary and otherwise, bearing
upon the identity of the aggressor and
announces this conclusion:
1.-THE editors would say that, after care
full study of all the accessible evidence
they find that, according to the most au-
thoritative statements, the outbreak oc-
CURED the result of a trespass by four
armed Filipinos on territory admitted by
the Filipino in command to be within the
jurisdiction of the United States. The ac-
tfon of the Filipino trespassers seems to
nave been an instance of bad discipline in
the insurgent army. Certainly it was not
ordered on that date by the insurgent lead
ers, although the indications are that the
leaders had planned to attack in a few
days. The claim that our forces instigat-
ed the attack for the purpose of securing
the votes necessary to ratify the treaty is
absolutely unsupported by any evidence
which has come to the attention of the
EDITORS
This admission makes very large
and ragged hole in the offensive
works of our American Tagalog SYM
pathizers. They have stuck to the
lie that our government was the ag-
gressor on the night of February 4,
1899, at Manila and have rung the
changes on it III the face of official
federal reports. They have charged
President Mckinley with personally
ordering an attack on the innocent"
Aguinaldo and his forces, when the
evidence, most authoritave, as the
Philippine Information society says,
reveals the Filipinos as the deliber-
ate aggressors that rising of the
natives against the Americans in
Manila had been planned and that
Aguinaldo had advised his personal
friends in Manila to leave the city
for safety; that AguinaIdo about No
vember 1, 1898, had not made up his
mind to advocate 4 republic or an
American protectofate, bat was in
clined to the latter; that no promises
were made by the United States to
Aguinaldo to set him up as a ruler in
the Philippines.
The faric of falsehood constructed
by Aguinaldo's sympathetic friends
in this country has long been demol
ished, but it is interesting to note
the disintegra ton of the remains of
the Philippine Information society,
which can hardly be charged with
being a supporter of the administra-
ton. The American sympathizers
With Aguinalo have accepted the half
breeds words and fabrications in
preference to the official reports of
our government.
They have backed an adventurer
who has, for two years past, waged
a war against the United States
which has cost the lives of 5000 of
our soldiers and a vast amount of
money. They have made a hero out
of a pitiless tyrant and supported his
'cause" based upon fraud and false
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