I.R., 471. 7.
[43] P.I.R., 1300. 2.
[44] Admiral Dewey's testimony, from which I quote extracts, will
be found in Senate Documents, Vol. 25.57 Congress, 1st session,
pp. 2928, 2941.
[45] P.I.R., 1300.2.
[46] P.I.R., 1300.2.
[47] Taylor, 4 MG., E.
[48] Report of the Philippine commission to the President. January 31,
1900. Vol. I, p. 121.
[49] P.I.R., 396. 3.
[50] Ibid., 396. 3.
[51] P.I.R., 461.4.
[52] "My Dear Brother: I inform you that we arrived here in Cavite
at eleven o'clock and disembarked at four o'clock in the afternoon
after our conference with the American Admiral. Everything appears
to be favourable for obtaining our independence. I cannot say more
on that subject as it would take too long.
"I have no other object in writing this except to ask you and your
companions to meet at once and arrange the best way to entrap all the
enemy in your town, employing deceit, for instance, make a present
of whatever you think best to the chiefs successively and then
at once enter the houses and attack them, or if not this, do what
you think best. Show valor and resolution, brothers, the hour has
arrived for the Philippines to belong to her sons and not to them,
only one step and we shall reach Independence; be constant, brothers,
and be united in feelings, do not imitate those who show two faces,
whatever such people do sooner or later they will be slaves.
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