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Show DON'T WANT TO DE SOLD. kmm There Mar t be a Warm Time In tha mmm Philippines with Intorcents, 11 Manilla, Dec. 3. The independent H party of Filipinos la not disposed to U accept the result of tho deliberations W of the peaco commissioners at Paris, H judging from tho tono of tho native t press. Tho Indepcndcncla publishes 'H a particularly bombastic leading artt-- w "" M cle, to tho effect that the Filipinos will "sAfl decllno to permit their homes to be ijHH bought and sold llko merchandise. It pH then repeats that tho Filipinos-aro M ready to fight In defense of their H rlghta, and asserts that tho govern- U ment and peoplo aro unanimous in U claiming nothing less than indopend- H Tho paper also claims that tho Fill- rW plnos havo incontestlblo claims upon H tho island of Luzon, part of the Vlsay- H as Islands and tho Island of Mindanao H by right of conquest. It concedes that ,, '"'1 the Americans helped the Insurgents W "indirectly in blockading Manila," H but the Indepcndcncla claims that oven ' H without help, tho revolutionists must H havo ultimately won. Finally, tho H Indepcndcncla holds that Spain cannot U ccdo tho Phlllpplno archipelago "be H cause It was never hers." Bm |