Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-09-04 | Page 4 | Aguinaldo's Open Conversion

AGUINALDOS OPEN CONVERSION Aguinnldo seems to be thoroughly converted from the error of his ways In opposing American methods and administration admin-istration iu I the Philippines Originally the joy and later the hope of the little Americans the antiImperialists he enjoyed himself after his captivity better bet-ter than he had ever done before in his life and hated the worst way to be released re-leased at the close of the insurrection from the palace where ho had nominally been In jail and where he had been treated and waited upon like a prince He was actually afraid to go at large for fear some of the relatives of the men he had had assassinated would kill him on sight But he survived all the imagined perIls and came to consider that he could reap more honor and gain more consideration coin by supporting the Government he had endeavored to throw off than in pursuing any other course so for a good while he has been I quietly supporting American rule lie now however comes out openly on that side advises his countrymen to adopt the customs and methods of the Americans Ameri-cans to forsake gambling to improve agriculture and to attend the public schools which the Americans have es abllsljed In the archipelago All this Is good and It shows that giilnaldo dull and unlearned though he 15 reported to be shows that he is along a-long lap ahead of certain irreconcilable Americans who seem utterly unable to forgive their country for achieving such signal success and making such a bril iant record on the other side of the globe