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Show DON'T WANT TO BE SOLD. there My Yet be a Warm Time In th rhiii;pines v.ith Insurgents. Manilla, Dee. 2. The independent party of Filipinos is not disposed to accept the result of the deliberations of the peace commissioners at Paris, judging from the tone of the native press. The Independeneia publishes a particularly bombastic leading article, arti-cle, to the effect that the Filipinos will decline to permit their homes to be bought and sold like merchandise. It then repeats that the Filipinos are ready to fight in defense of their rights, and asserts that the government govern-ment and people are unanimous in claiming nothing less than independence. independ-ence. The paper also claims that the Filipinos Fili-pinos have incontestible claims upon the island of Luzon, part of the Visay-as Visay-as islands and the island of Mindanao by right of conquest. It concedes that the Americans helped the insurgents "indirectly in blockading Manila," but the Independeneia claims that even without help, the revolutionists must have ultimately won. Finally, the Independeneia holds that Spain cannot cede the Philippine archipelago "be cause it was never hers." |