Show TRAITOR TOIlS FLAG l Forti Letter from AntiImperialist Leaguer at Fort Hamilton N Yt Captured by Gen Funston Urges the Recipient a Filipino I i Leader to Seize American Soldiers and Charge Them With PiracyHe Vas Particularly Anxious that Capt Otis Supposed tobe aRelative of the General beTaken r j Taken p Washington Aug 15The War department de-partment has made public the Filipino correspondence captured some months In ago by Gen Funstona command Dr Mon Luzon There Is a leUer from tague R Leverson dated at Fort Hamilton Ham-ilton N Y July 17 1809 and addressed f to Senor G Apaclble It sajs Dear Sir and BrotherOUl friend I Albert S Parson of Lexington gave me I your name as one to whom I should i write as a representative Filipino I am a member of the AntlImperlal mile league of Boston of which GeorgeS George-S Is president any Erwin Wlnslow is secretary I have published many articles and letters denouncing the war carried on by President Mc IClnley against your people He and Gen Otis and all his troops are pirates I upon the territory of natives Our Presidents not In the posftlons of I kings Our Presidents are not duly au I thorJzed to make war without the con I Bent of Congress as McKlnlcy is doing and all person comprised In this war are pirates SUGGESTS A PLAN i 1 should like to suggest a plan to YOU Ills this You should seize someone some-one of rank In the service of the United States and then inform the foreign Consuls Con-suls that he was to brought before a council of war for piracy and write to said Consuls to have representatives present at such council of war to see that It Is legal Piracy would be shown by conductIng conduct-Ing a war In violation of the usages of civilized war and the proof would consist Jn the fact of the consent to killing defenseless prisoners and noncombatants non-combatants men women and children In cold blood and In robbery by officers and soldiers of noncombatants If I were not an old man of more than 69 years I would willingly aid you in your Just defense APPEAL TO AMERICANS I also suggest that the Filipino Congress Con-gress address an appeal to the people of the United States I shall not give you the heads of this appeal I merely point out something which will especially espe-cially Inform the people For example a reference to the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence must be Inserted but I believe be-lieve that it is also necessary for you to mention in your appeal the points I have made above to show that this war Is piracy using them to bring out the want of Christian feeling for the soldiers You must also show that McKinley II keeps the people of the United States I in ignorance of the true facts that he and the members of his Cabinet have delIberately lied to secure the ratification ratifica-tion of the treaty of peace with Spain without a clause which would have assured as-sured the liberty of the Filipinos that they deliberately lied when they said that Agoncillo advised Aguinaldo to fight and that a telegram stating the opposite was intercepted The war was advised from Washington to secure the passage of the treaty INSIST UPON ATROCITIES Do not fall to Insist upon the atrocities atroci-ties before mentioned especially the assassination in cold blood of women and children and the sack of property prop-erty noncombatants perpetrated soldiers especially a Captain named Otis who Is believed to be a relative of the General who not only took no steps for the punishment of the assassins assas-sins but who did not oven reprimand them thienIf I If you can provc that women have I been violated put that also In your statement You should offer to prove nil these atrocities before the commission composed com-posed of three Americans named by thc Congress of the United States and three Filipinos named by the Filipino Congress Con-gress and presided over by a poison of some other nation chosen by the United States He must not bo an Englishman English-man for they arc all associated In the crime If the J > publication any portion por-tion of this letter will boor any service to you you can use it but I think It I would be more prudent to keep It secret Do not forget to speak of the American Ameri-can squadron which blockaded your coasts bombarded them without warning warn-ing to the noncombatants and peaceful peace-ful towns where war would never have been thought of but where now the greater part of the Inhabitants who formerly were friends of the United States have taken up arms to avenge this deaths of their wives and sons Also peak of the refusal of the United States and Great Britain to re nounpe the use of explosive bullets which was decided upon In the conference confer-ence of the commissioners at The Hague and which the United States Is now using although their use was denounced as barbarous by the other commissioners at The Hague Ask the people of the United Slates If they think that they are Christians and ask them how they can reconcile their pretended religion with their present cond uct toward McKinley and his war This horrible war is a nightmare for me It may be folly for me to permit myself to be affected by it but Its horror the eternal Infamy of It for my country whose people are preparing a state of slavery for another prevents tnu from sleeping I can say nothing more but that It would he well to let the people know that steps are being taken to lntroduce militarism Into the Unllfed States nomo examples of which can be shown from the conduct Gen Merriam in Idaho Very sincerely MONTAGUE R LEVERSON |