Facts about the Filipinos, Том 1Philippine Information Society., 1901 |
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12 Otis Place 56th Congress Admiral Dewey affairs American April archipelago arms army arrival attack August authority Bacoor Boston cable captured Cavite Cavite Province Cebu chief civil Colonel command Congress Consul December Department desire district E. S. OTIS EMILIO AGUINALDO enemy established evidence February fighting Filipinos forces form of government gents Hongkong honor Iloilo independence inhabitants insurgent government insurgents insurrection January José Rizal July leaders letter liberty lines Luzon MacArthur Major-General Malolos Manila ment Merritt Military Governor Mindanao Moros nation natives occupied officers opinion organized Otis Report Otis's Panay party peace PHILIPPINE INFORMATION SOCIETY Philippine Islands present President SCHURMAN priests prisoners proclamation protection provinces received reply says Schurman Commission Secretary secure Senate Document 208 SENATE DOCUMENT 62 Señor BARRETO sent soldiers sovereignty Spain Spaniards statement Sulu Sulu Archipelago surrender Tagalogs Tarlac tion town treaty troops United Visayan Washington Wesley Merritt wish
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Страница 41 - effective civil service, in which, to the fullest extent practicable, natives shall be employed. "6. The collection and application of taxes and revenues will be put upon a sound, honest, and economical basis. Public funds, raised justly and collected honestly, will be applied only in defraying the regular and proper expenses incurred by
Страница 43 - furnished me by the Honorable Secretary of War under date of May 28,1898.' See Report, page 48] fully contemplated the occupation of the islands by the American land forces, and stated that the powers of the military occupant are absolute and supreme, and immediately operate upon the political condition of the inhabitants, I did not consider it wise to hold any direct communication with
Страница 10 - not answer that, but that he could trust the honor of the United States; in one hundred and twenty years we had established no colonies. He then made this remarkable statement, ' I have studied attentively the Constitution of the United States, and I find in it no authority for colonies, and I have no fear.
Страница 33 - SIR,— I have the honor to forward, for the information of the Department, copies, with translations, of three proclamations issued by General Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader in the Philippines. " Very respectfully, your obedient servant, " GEORGE DEWEY, " Rear-Admiral USN, " Commanding US Naval Force on Asiatic Station.
Страница 33 - requests that I should do so, telling him the squadron could not act until the arrival of the United States troops. At the same time I have given him to understand that I consider insurgents as friends, being opposed to a common enemy. He has gone to attend
Страница 30 - These people are far superior in their intelligence and more capable of self-government than the natives of Cuba, and I am familiar with both races.
Страница 69 - administered by the ordinary tribunals, so far as practicable. The operations of civil and municipal government are to be performed by such officers as may accept the supremacy of the United States by taking the oath of allegiance, or by officers chosen, as far as may be practicable, from the inhabitants of the islands.
Страница 33 - Should our power by any fatality be withdrawn, the Commission believe that the government of the Philippines would speedily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse, if it did not necessitate, the intervention of other powers, and the eventual division of the islands among them/' § * Report of First Philippine Commission, Vol. I., page 182. t Ibid. § Ibid, page 183.
Страница 43 - insurgent leader until I should be in possession of the city of Manila, especially as I would not, until then, be in a position to issue a proclamation and enforce my authority, in the event that his pretensions should clash with my designs.
Страница 17 - lamentations of so many persecuted people, have considered it opportune to extend their protecting mantle to our beloved country, now that they have been obliged to sever relations with Spain, owing to the tyranny this nation is exercising in Cuba, causing enormous injury to the Americans, who have such large commercial and other interests there.