Show 1 FONTELA UNLOADS FIRST PRESIDENT MADRID FILl IDRI PllfO JUNTA IN NEW YORK I S r Is Interviewed of Course Tells Why Ho Came to America and Eulogizes f the Rebel Cause r New York Dec 2G Rafael Del Pan Fonlola urcfugoe from the Philippine islands J and firsi president of the Madrid Ma-drid junta has Just arrived In New York from Canada I I came llerc to be free he explained ex-plained 1 was Impossible for me to be other than a slave to America when I lived with my wife and five children In Manila so I have come where I wont have to be subservient Americans Ameri-cans are not subservient to Americans I and while I dont approve of the I I American methods employed In the I j Philippines Id rather be a free Amen t > can than an enslaved Filipino Senor Fontela was n lawyer and edl i r tot In Manila When the war began I I he was Agulnaldos chief adviser Driven out of the Philippines by the I American soldiers he fled with his wife and five small children to Madrid I There he established the first Filipino Junta and was made Its preslcr ii Vlth an idea that such u junta would flourish in Canada he left Madrid and went to Montreal He has been there for the pasl several weeks You hear I I I so much of American Independence In Canada he continued that 1 determined I deter-mined to come here and get some of It Senor Fontela explained that It I was safe for him to relurn to the Philippines Philip-pines nnd resume his law practice and the publication of his newspapers were lie willing to swear allegiance to thy Stars and Stripes Im no hypocrite he explained and cant lake such an oalh when my people are In a struggle which must end in death or freedom I will not return to the Philippines Until un-til Independence has been gained The Impression has got abroad that Agulnaldo Is I dead This Is nonsense I I He has a large following and everyman every-man under him Is there lo do or die I The war has Just begun unless America J Amer-ica accedes to the demands of the Filipinos Fili-pinos Regarding the formation of a new I r party which the United States officials offi-cials say will rally the Filipinos to the colonial policy Senor Fontela said This scheme is doomed lo failure The leaders Buencamino and Paterno aro leaders without a party They are timeservers During the Spanish domination dom-ination they wero more Spanish than the Spaniards During the effective life of the Filipino republic they were arclenl patriots When Die United States troops captured cap-tured the Filipino capital Tarlac these men allowed themselves to be taken prisoners and have since professed ardent enthusiasm for United States supremacy Any proposal made by them Is sure to be rejected by the Filipinos pinos who will apply to them the proverb pro-verb which being translated Is The same dogs with different collars I Last June Buencamino made an attempt at-tempt to organize a party for auton omj No one responded In October Paterrto tried to organize festivals In Manila and asked Filipino revolutionists revolution-ists to cooperate with him in asking for a broad plan of selfgoernment The United States people can hardly have forgotten the complete failure of the Manila festivals and the Indifference Indiffer-ence with which the people treated Senor Paternos efforts I Now Paterno and Buencamino Join their forces proposing to organize anew a-new party 1 federal 1 party As the force of each amounts to zero their united forces will be double zero |