Sixto Lopez on Declaration of Independence and Philippine War
A prominent Filipino, Sixto Lopez, wrote from London, June 22, a letter to the Springfield Republican, in which he says:— If the President [of the United States] will proclaim that the principles of the Declaration of Independence will be made applicable in spirit and in letter to the Filipinos, the war will not last another five minutes. All the world knows that to be the truth; and that, if tested, the event would prove its truth. Yet also all the world knows that no such proclamation will be made. And what more conclusive proof of national repudiation of the principles of the Declaration could be given to the world than is given in the fact that when a proclamation of those principles would in five minutes stop what may be an endless war, such proclamation will not be made?