| Show Strange to say ray Home of ot our content In this country seem Mom unable to their th lr chagrin at nt till Clip cape capture i tore lure of ot and the th course lie Ire hehns hits hns taken Ink en They he even Iwen endeavor to tomake make It appear that his address to his people Is I of it no ire account because It wan not runt written by hy him ond was signed un ito under tier der compulsion an Insinuation which Is an as mean as ns It Is without la lit tact fact The truth about to tobe toH tobe be H that he since silice his capture lina ims acted In n U straightforward and arid open man mun mannor nor nur making the tho host boat of the situation He IJu lb has endeavored endt to tu learn something about American Institutions arid moth nieth olin ada nail MI seems pleased with both That he hid did not take taka that course courso previous to tire tilt commencement of ot hostilities has han cost coRt him and arid his followers dearly oa Ills hIs follower That was ns his grunt great auth deplorable mistake nut Hut If IC IChe he lie now sees lees the of ot his hla wayn wayts can enn afford to n ply In III his IrIs IrIsie ie the old adage better lute than never The proclamation Itself bears evi 01 evidence dence that It Is U an nn expression of the thu true tUe sentiment of at the captive even If It tire the words and sentences are arc put to together together gether by another He lie speaks very rory little of ot himself and of ot the tho supposed l to the cause of ot othis his capture Ho Ito peaks at nt length of ot the new light he hat has received and makes the strong point that In his Io American sovereignty will VIII better servo the Interests of ot the country count than limn na no tivo rule It If It Is objected that the tho Insurgent chief must have experienced n II suddon change of ot heart to tn speak like this It ItIn Ith ItIs In Is to tn reply that In Ill alt proba probability hue lino gradually arrived MI Mt this conviction In his experiences with the Americans during the last laRt year Ho has seen scott their courage on the battle field 1101 1 their gen gsa n as Ir wisdom anti and regard for tor the tho rIghts of u others In Itt the arrangement of ot civil government anti and appointments to offices The views expressed In his hl manifesto must be boo the of oe a contemplation of ot throne these things for tor n a 1 long time and there Is IB no doubt of ot his sincerity when ho ex cx PreP e his bbs conviction that the Filipino cause linn hRS no chance of ot success through Insurrection should hould be hailed with by byall byall all 11 friends of ot the Inhabitants of at the th re roo remote mote loots islands It will be followed Iti Itt due lue c time by b orderly conditions From I the he t first It huts has hll been heun tho the understanding that hat t an soon coon as tho tire Insurgents were willing to lay la down their arms tho the American people would bu Lu prepared to lIton Isten l to the suggestions or len uen de do demands I mantis mands of ot the till Filipinos That time cannot annot c now be tar tur oft off and the tho era of peace ence and nd prosperity will commence with the friendly negotiations and dis discussions c of ot matters of ot mutual Interest |
