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Show AGUINALDO ASKS RELEASE OF THE FILIPINOS '" i (lly JUNIUS B. WOOD) Dv. Cable to tho Star nd Chicago Dallyjfews" r ,. Copyright, 920 ''MANILLA, . I sept. .-Soothed n Bplrh arid piospeifniMii woildly goods In th6 twenty rests since lie led the wild bolo-Hiuied Tagalogs against Americas Holdleis, flen. Einll-lo Einll-lo Agulnaldo speaks us the most popular pop-ular leader of tho Filipinos. The writeV saw the ruinous warrior at his country homo In tho Milage of Knwli, mldwa between Manilla and Crtvlte. In the large rambling frame house weie chickens anil pigs, while a dozen liaiefoot, but clean, chlldiun. were .playing In .the big giounds In the lenr. Across the load In the nlpa-thntched huts, stand ' Ing on poles like stilts n'bpvo tlm H jground, with more children and tho same livestock, mothers were gossip- Ing lihd smoking cigarettes, - while- M leaning out of the windows. No men M wero'preent. It wan Sunday rind IW H weekly cockfight demanded their 'at- H tntlon. Adjoining the' residence1 Ik H tlie village school, the grounds of M which Agulnaldo donates. ; M Hl!l5CJKO VICIIK OltKLHSff, H j Qrneral Agulnuldd was.home.after- M a year In htfspjtalj Ho hd.,be H oWrai'ed on tor nppejidcltla,nnd 4he- H aUrgeo had ciirclrasly sewedup ni. assortnient of'too'ls Insl'de thn.wouno ' and It was necessary to operato a second "time.' lowrer, fate decree H that neither soldiers nor surgeonw should kill him and the hardy vctor- H an survived. The effects of 'th'e 'or- H deal aie visible when my host, ' &, slim man of medium height, grave- M nnd pleasant face, with a jet black M pompadour, and dressed entirely In while, entered the parlor Into which H onu of the barofont bo)s hod .usheiw M td me. Though he speaks KngllsU H and Spaulih, Agulnaldo preferred to M tall; In his nnlle Tngalog. nid called H In a joutig secrotary to lnteipiot. M "1 hnvo kept the ualh I mnilu to H tlte United StateH not to talk politics- jH hut now that tho Americans are ask- H lug tho views of the Filipinos, I will H i ply.'' he said. "Our peoplo uro- M happy, contented nnd more prosper- ous than they ever dreamed of be- coming ns the result of the Amcrl- can rule. The schools hue taught t them lo think and Industrie and H commerce hae shown them thu re- M wards of work. Now wu waul the M Independence wlikli was piomlsod to, H NOT SATIHI'Yl.Nti l() Vll.tri.NOH H "The terittorlal form of govern ,H ment which the Americans In the Is- 'H lands, led by Senator Riorge 3. Fair- H child, uie adMicating does not. satis- H ry the Filipinos, much ns wo appre- H elate tho honor of Incoming; Aiuurl- H can citizens. Congress decided that, H It would be Impossible foi the l'hll- H ipplnes to become an American terrl- H "The Filipinos nie able to t;ooiu H themselves and the country will be. H ublo to uunle as nn Indepeiidi-ut B nation, though It Is uninll compared M with othei nntlnns. The leceiit war M changed the uoild'x idi'as 'and now It H N cousldeied right that the gieuter M chlllzed lutlnus should piotect and M encour.ige the tmmlli'l'. lieu MI and weaker countries." H When it wiib sllgiresled In n-sponsu M to this altiulHtlc oiitimlsm as to. !B u 01 hi policies (hat mini) Ann l leans H belli tid the iiflfiimith of the war iH piocd that the stronger nations went IH eager to gobble the Kiiuillfi' ones,, H (tuir.'l Agutnnldn gaxid foi a mo- H mint Ihiough the window '.it tblr jH peaceful iiislic nt lie without. A wa- H i burrulo wus wtilloulng In a mud- hole. Uupi'j sdinol ehlldun weiu H p!; lu L I'.e i.igarv.(le biuoklug. not hers were luzlly waving palnis. H It was twenty enrs slnui the cruet JjH of ilflcn, the files of righting men lifl and the glow of limning villages due- H turbed the countryside, despite the world conflict. It was dllllcult to re M Hll7e that tho stietigth of Americu, G.000 miles unit), had been the pro- M lectlug power. I 'I hne faith In the woild's clvlll- M ziitlon," If a Ul m host. . M CIIOSS HIVKIt ON UAMItOO IUWV fl M On leluiulng to Manila our uulo- H u mobile stood un n bamboo raft along- sldi of a caiload of ollov uinngoeH. 'I while the ftri)iuau, bale except' for B his blue breeches, pulled slowly n actosu tho rlvei. Two women, guy In II .t H holdlny dresses and puffing at cigar- ettes. were perched on the load of'1 I Juicy fiult, They nskeiU ''Is Don J.'mlllo getting well? What 1 did ho Bay about politics?" jl Kveobody on thu tuft gathered Jl Holemnh to listen whtn tho words; of their leader woio repented- ! - v 1 l , i ' |