THE PHILIPPINES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9641, 13 January 1899, Page 3

THE PHILIPPINES.

~7- (Received January 13, at 10.35 a.m.) Washington, January 12.

„ t _ Foraoker has hinted that ' . America's retention of the Philippines is -, * * due to the possible intervention of other -' Powers.

, Aquinaldo and ihe Americans.

. --' . Writing a few weeks ago with reference , '' toa report that Aguinaldo intended chang- ' ' ing his headquarters, a Manila corre- ■' spondent said:— Undoubtedly Aquinaldo y is frightened as to the future. He could '. ' not be called a great, brave man himself ; ' hence he cannot individually inspire his ,' men and followers so that they will always ■' Btand by him. As eaoh day passes, Aquisees the weakness of bis cause and "" if the^ frailty of hie claims developing into \• , absblnte failure, unless the Philippines /^"shijtll be returned to the Spaniards, when Mt-he* would indeed have cauße for fighting. A> He knows secretly that he has Committed J li ft great crime in proclaiming independence; ,^'Jhdiß well aware that but for American '^'--assistance he would never have been where v is to-day { hois conscious that he owes cj- Everything to American assistance and '■'ji' eo*-operatioh, and |s likewise mindful of ;," t ,i the faofc that ho is almost guilty of the "fvgraVest treachery towards tbe United' •; > States in assuming the attitude which he '$ has in his relations with the United States - i officials in his proclamations, and in the £> , instruction 3 and orders which he has reissued, realising at the same time that [C'_ 'ho, .Great Powers of Europe will never fe'" recognise his claim' to independence. In JTyjew of all these conditions Aquinaldo V^intends to bo ready to run if compelled. If '„ 'his magnificent bluff fails he must get out the way, and he knows it. If this run- { r^ningßhallbo from tho Americans I pity £ . him, becauso thero are 15,000 men hero t,jr who will never stop till they find him if '*$ they are ordered to bring him into Manila. '■" .At the same timo, if he will puratlo tho -^Honorable coarse and uot take advantage '•-'.)' of tho nation to which he owes everything '•/" r and gracefully' aocept its chief control, he £ theße Americans equally ready to 'H protedt,the rights of the Filippiuos and do •-/„ their best to promote the prosperity and ,J r ., welfare of the natives as well as Ameri c*!i;^c«ri's"and foreigners.. Tho great orror of and his followers is that they ¥ji'tto t not recognise that Atoericans are .ii"' almost as different from Spaniards as t 'tyhito from black, and that the former's **.\. ideas of government, freedom and ju^tics entirely unlike those of tho latter. ,;>~,Jqßt because tho ''American authorities •..-,'. cannot and do not completely change the „'a dministration of affairs in Manila, and \r even allow a few Spanish officials to re* I >• main temporarily in their places, the in- -", _ Biirgent leaders blindly argue that there is ' Jno, difference between Americans and '?~ T i Spaniards, in order to inftuenco the com- > r mon people. They will not for a moment ~\*- look forward to tho future, and they will I " not recognise the local difficulties of the i, , situation.