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56m 'ONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT
1st Session. No. 66.
AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
JANUAny 9, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. HoAR presented the following
ARTICLES PREPARED BY W. B. WILCOX, PAYMASTER, U. S. N., AND
LEONARD R. SARGENT, NAVAL CADET, U. S. N.; LETTER OF
GENERAL CHARLES KING TO THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, AND
A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS, SIGNED BY FELIPE BUENCAMINO,
RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS.
[From The Outlook, September 2, 1899.]
THE BACKWOODS FILIPINO
By LEoNARD R. SARGENT.
It has been my privilege to have been intimately associated with the
Filipino people for a short time at a most interesting period of their
history. With the permission of Admiral Dewey I spent the greater
part of the months of October and November of 1898 in company
with Paymaster W. B. Wilcox, United States Navy, in tle interior of
the northern part of the island of Luzon.' It will be remembered
that at that date the United States had not yet announced its policy
with regard to the Philippines. The terms of the treaty with Spain
were being negotiated by our commissioners at Paris, and the fate of
the islands hung in the balance. In the meantime the native popula-
tion, taking matters into their own bands, had declared their independ-
ence from all foreign jurisdiction and had set up a provisional govern-
ment, with Aguinaldo at its head.
Although this government has never been recognized, and in all
probability will go out of existence without recognition, yet it can not
be denied that, in a region occupied by many millions of inhabitants,
for nearly six months it stood alone between anarchy and order. The
military forces of the United States held control only in Manila, with
its environs, and in Cavite, and had no authority to proceed further;
while in the vast remaining districts the representatives of the only
other recognized power on the field were prisoners in the hands of
their despised subjects. It was the opinion at Manila during this anom-
alous period in our Philippine relations, and possibly in the United
1 The author of this article, it should be stated, is a naval cadet. The report made
by Mr. Sargent and Paymaster Wilcox was regarded by Admiral Dewey as of great
value, and the Admiral commended them for' the success of their undertaking, their
thoroughness of observation, and the ability shown in their report.-The Editors.
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