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Singapore and Hongkong, the Mr. Pratt and the Mr. Wildman; when they became
informed with the actual state of business around February 4 to know
what the Filipinoses were attending the replica of the Mr. McKinley to the
telegram of General Otis in which he sent forth the peaceful wish of
the people of Filipino of long live as an independent nation; when, lately,
them the riveted their attention to the terms of the Essay in Paris,
the approval of what, in as far as it pertained to the annexation of the
Philippines, were greeted with demonstrations of the joy and the satisfaction
from Imperialist's party conducted by the Mr. McKinley, their eyes were then,
it opened to the revelations of the truth, while clearly perceiving the base,
selfish and inhuman policy that the Mr. McKinley had followed in his
distributions with us the Filipinos, inexorably sacrificing to them
unbridled ambition the honour of Admiral Dewey, exposing this worthy
gentleman and illustrious conqueror of the Spanish fleet to universal
ridiculous; for any other deduction you/he/she can follow from the fact that around
the middle one of May of 1898, the United States. _McCulloch_ brought me with
my revolutionary companions from Hongkong, from order of the above of
Mentioned admiral, while now the squadron of United States is indeed
taken part in to bomb the cities and harbors held by these revolutionary,
of whom objective it is and you/he/she has always been Liberty and the independence.
The facts as affirmed it is recently date and it still has to be fresh in
the memory of everybody.
Those that in May, 1898 admired the courage of the sailors of Admiral Dewey
and the humanitarianism of this illustrious Commander in to grant
visible help to an oppressed people to get liberty and the independence,
certainly you/he/she cannot put a honest construction on the inhuman present
war when contrasting him/it with those tall and worthy feelings.
I don't have need to think the cruelty that, from the duration of the
principle of the hostilities, has characterized General Otis