The Philippines - Past and Present (Vol. 1&2). Dean C. Worcester
high post in the customs service besides granting the commercial advantages and the participation in the expenses of the war which the Consul asked for his Government in Washington, since the Filipinos agreed in advance to what is here stated, considering it a proper testimonial of gratitude.”—P.I.R., 1300. 2.
21 Blount, p. 12
22 Blount, pp. 8–9.
23 Ibid., p. 9.
24 The following is one of them:—
“H. Kong, May 16, 1898.
“Señor Don Jose Enrique Basa:
“My Dear Enrique: As an aid to the American policy in the Philippines—America being the most liberal and humanitarian nation in the world—I earnestly recommend the widest possible circulation of the proclamation which I send herewith in order that the Americans may be supported in the war against the tyrannical friars and the Spaniards who have connived with them, and that public order, so necessary under the present conditions, be preserved.
“Thy relative, twenty-six years an emigrant.
(Signed) “J. M. Basa.”
—P.I.R., 1204–10.
25 P.I.R., 1204–10.
26 Ibid., 1204–10.
27 P.I.R., 53–2.
28 Teodoro Sandico, an influential Tagálog leader, who spoke English well and afterward served as a spy while employed by the Americans as an interpreter.
29 Señor Garchitorena was a wealthy Tagálog of Manila, and, at this time, a prominent member of the Hongkong junta.
30 Dr. Galicano Apacible, a very intelligent and rather conservative Tagálog physician. After Aguinaldo left Hongkong, he was the leading member of the junta.
31 Sr. Graco Gonzaga, a prominent Filipino lawyer of the province of Cagayan.
32 There is an illegible word in the original.
33 P.I.R., 406–5.
34 P.I.R., 398. 9.
“Hongkong, 12 Jan. 1899—2 P.m.
“Senator Hoar, Washington.
“As the man who introduced General Aguinaldo to the American government through the consul at Singapore, I frankly state that the conditions under which Aguinaldo promised to cooperate with Dewey were independence under a protectorate. I am prepared to swear to this. The military party suborned correspondents are deceiving the American nation by means of malevolent lying statements. If your powerful influence does not change this insensate policy there will be a hopeless conflict with the inevitable results disastrous for the Americans.
“Bray.”
—P.I.R., 853–4.
36 “Then Aguinaldo had an interview with the United States consul in Hongkong, in which he told him that he was anxious to become an American citizen, but this being impossible, he desired to be allowed to return to the Philippines and place himself under the orders of Commodore Dewey. According to the brother of that Consul, who certainly must have had opportunities for knowing the facts in the case, he made no demands for independence, but said that he hoped that the Americans would not leave the Filipinos to their fate, but would annex the Philippines and protect them against the Spaniards. He promised the Consul that he would fight with the Americans and not attempt to foment a revolution against the United States. His highest expressed aim was to throw off the Spanish yoke, and, that once accomplished, he would abide by the decision of the United States as to the ultimate disposition of the Philippines. If Aguinaldo had expressed his real intentions of obtaining arms and using them only for his own purposes, and, if he found it expedient, against the United States, it is not to be thought that he would have been returned to the Philippines on a United States vessel.”—Taylor, 44 F Z.
37 P.I.R., 471. 7.
38 P.I.R., 1300. 2.
39 Admiral Dewey’s testimony, from which I quote extracts, will be found in Senate Documents, Vol. 25.57 Congress, 1st session, pp. 2928, 2941.
40 P.I.R., 1300.2.
41 P.I.R., 1300.2.
42 Taylor, 4 MG., E.
43 Report of the Philippine commission to the President. January 31, 1900. Vol. I, p. 121.
44 P.I.R., 396. 3.
45 Ibid., 396. 3.
46 P.I.R., 461.4.
“My Dear Brother: I inform you that we arrived here in Cavite at eleven o’clock and disembarked at four o’clock in the afternoon after our conference with the American Admiral. Everything appears to be favourable for obtaining our independence. I cannot say more on that subject as it would take too long.
“I have no other object in writing this except to ask you and your companions to meet at once and arrange the best way to entrap all the enemy in your town, employing deceit, for instance, make a present of whatever you think best to the chiefs successively and then at once enter the houses and attack them, or if not this, do what you think best. Show valor and resolution, brothers, the hour has arrived for the Philippines to belong to her sons and not to them, only one step and we shall reach Independence; be constant, brothers, and be united in feelings, do not imitate those who show two faces, whatever such people do sooner or later they will be slaves. Respect foreigners and their property, also enemies who surrender.
“I want you to know that in respect to our conduct I have promised the American Admiral and other nations, that we shall carry on modern war. Even if a Spaniard surrenders, he must be pardoned and treated well and then you will see that our reputation will be very good in