| Show HAD NEVER KNOWN JUSTIE W TH FILIPINOS FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM General Thomas M Anderson Delivers Deliv-ers Address Before Women at Ch cago Condition in Philippines Chicago June 15To honor Old Glory under which their fathers husbands hus-bands and brothers had fought and suffered and achieved victory was the motive which drew together several hundred women members of the Chicago Chi-cago Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution and guests in assembly hall Fine Arts building on the occasion oc-casion of the annual celebration of Flag day The patriotic impulses were manifested in the applause which greeted greet-ed the speakers and the singers during the two hours in which the programme was rendered Regent Mrs Robert Wiles who presided pre-sided introduced General Thomas M Anderson as the man who led the first military detachment to the Philippines Philip-pines and said that he would Interest the audience with Reminiscences of the Philippines That he did interest his audience was evident from the close attention which was given him throughout and the applause ap-plause which often Interrupted hisad dress and greeted him at its close He recalled the scene which faded from view as the vessel bringing him and his command steamed out through the Golden Gate from San Francisco in which the Hag was the most prominent feature of seeing myriads of American flags waving over Hawaii which was not then annexed to the United States and of finally sighting the stars and stripes floating over Deweys fleet in strpes 10atng Manila bay He told of the characteristics I character-istics and habits of the people of the Philippines He also described some of the means of torture employed by the Spanish and to those he attributed the present trouble in the islands In this regard he said No wonder then that the Filipinos often rebelled and fought desperately for their freedom They had never been told the truth and had never known justice When they found that we remained after the defeat of the Spaniards they were made to believe them the Span I we would treat just a Slla lards had done |
