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...Emilio Aguinaldo, former revolutionary leader, called upon the people to " show equanimity, heeding nothing else but the dictates of peace and order...
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: General Emilo Aguinaldo, who 24 years ago led the Filipino revolutionists and later took an oath of allegiance to the United States, is organizing an association of veterans of his revolt...
Durning the Spanish-American War, Aguinaldo and his insurgents received supplies of arms from Americans and set up an Aguinaldo Government. The attempts of Aguinaldo's Government to keep order were signally failures. Aguinaldo, it is thought, believed that upon the ousting of Spain, the Philippines would be entirely free. The peace treaty turned possession of the Islands from Spain to the United States. This disappointment and the refusal to admit the Filipino leader and his men into Manila, precipitated a revolt, which an American military force of occupation succeeded in putting down only after three years of campaigning...
...gratifying to read your impartial and carefully considered editorial commenting on General Aguinaldo's coming visit to this country. College men are so often accused of seldom reading periodicals aside from their own college publications that the space you have thus given to the Philippine problem has undoubtedly presented the case to hundreds of Harvard men who are continually misled by the prejudiced articles in other papers. Certainly it must have interested the many who have been more than surprised to learn that there are Universities in Manila, and that the archipelago is not entirely "made up of forests...
What Senors Aguinaldo, Quezon, and the others will have to say at Washington will be of great interest in showing the Filipino side of the question. At present, the grounds of native dissatisfaction, beyond an ethereal vision of the glories of nationhood, are not clear. The Philippines under American protection have autonomy. If permitted to go entirely free, they would gain little more control of their government than they have today, and they would lose what advantages they now possess under American guidance and protection...