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Show AMNESTY FOR FILIPINOS. Tho important news comes this morning morn-ing that the administration has concluded con-cluded to Issue on July 4th, ft proclama. Hon of amnesty, tn nil Insurgent I'lll-plnos I'lll-plnos without reserve This will, of course Include the malcontents banished In Cluam, as well as Agulnaldo and tho nahtlng bands, with their leaders throughout tho Islands Hut the Im-rlaeabtu Im-rlaeabtu dattos of Mlndinno will not be Included unless In the meantime the) give 111 their submission, nnd surrender tho murderers of tin American signal party that was ambushed and ussnssl- This net of nmnestj may fairly bo considered as the ofllelat proclamation .that the war Is ended. As such It will ho gladly welenmcd by tho country nnd bj the world So fir ns nny Idol thnt the l'lllplnos were flghtlng for Independeneo Independ-eneo In the Amcrliun sctito Is concerned, It Ins never I, ml nnj foundation In fact, Dut even tho pretense of It has long been abandoned and what lighting there hns been for a ear or more has been with robber bands that were merely mere-ly murderers nnd robbers, who warred with no more Idea of liberty nnd nn Independent In-dependent government than have tho bandits In various of tho old lands of southern Durope, or the bandits ot the former generation In California And cv en from tho first, sa s Admiral Dew ey, whoso opportunities of knowing the fncts nro ttnciuiled, Agulnaldo "was there for gain, for loot, for money and Independence never entered his head" Agulnaldo's gorgeous scheme of loot nnd personal rule for the purpose of extortion, extor-tion, even after the establishment of his government (a, cleir dictatorship), has been divulged by the capture of his papers, which fully show that of the American Men of n rcpuhllc, popular rule, or' liberty In our sense or tho word, ho never had nny conception; but that his ono and only purpose was to establish his personal ends, und fleece tho people, native and foreign nllke, but the latter the worse, becnuse they were supposed to bo rich. That vicious dienm Is dispelled onco for nil, nnd tho people of the Islands are now assured ot a llbertj and personal Independence that no member or their rnco could for a moment mo-ment Imnglno for them; or would have had tho Inclination to put Into forco If ho could have grasoed tho Idea. The proclamation of amnesty will mnrk a bright day for the l'lllplnos. It will give them it personal interest In our Independeneo day, the only cloud upon It Is tho shadow or trouble that Iho liberation of the mouthy nnd Intriguing In-triguing rascals now hell out of harm's way miy bring. Hut let us hopo that tnls cloud may be no lirgcr thnn a nam's hand, nnd may soon pass away altogether. |