Gov rodolfo aguinaldo biography

We Filipinos have all along believed that if the American nation at large knew exactly, as we do, what is daily happening in the Philippine Islands, they would rise en masse, and demand that this barbaric war should stop.

There are other methods of securing sovereignty — the true and lasting sovereignty that has its foundation in the hearts of the people.

Gov rodolfo aguinaldo biography

Has not the greatest of English poets said:

" Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman Wood ? "

And, did America recognize this fact, she would cease to be the laughing stock of other civilized nations, as she became when she abandoned her traditions and set up a double standard of
government — government by consent in America, government by force in the Philippine Islands.

You have been deceived all along the line.

You have been greatly deceived in the personality of my countrymen. You went to the Philippines under the impression that their inhabitants were ignorant savages, whom Spain had kept in