Heading: (Philippine Insurrection)
Author: Milliken, Samuel
Title: 1901 Anti-Imperialist League sponsors exiled Filipino Nationalist - Typed Letter Signed
Place Published: Phila.
Publisher:
Date Published: Feb. 28, 1901
Description:

Typed Letter Signed as Secretary, American League of Philadelphia. 1 pp.

To Albert K. Smiley, Lake Mohonk, NY, asking for funds to publish the speech of Filipino nationalist Sixto Lopez, “now visiting the United States, in hopes of establishing peace in the Philippines, [who] has accepted an invitation to address the citizens of Philadelphia, to explain the desires of his countrymen…Senor Lopez is well informed and will prepare a careful address which should get the widest possible attention…” With printed copy of correspondence from League to Lopez, “recognizing the value and sincerity of your efforts to establish peaceable relations between the Filipinos and our people.” In 1898, Lopez had been secretary of the Philippine mission sent to  America to negotiate US recognition of Philippine independence after the Spanish-American War. When Washington instead declared the islands to be a US territorial possession, Lopez supported Aguinaldo’s revolt as exile spokesman, sponsored by the Anti-Imperialist League in writing and speaking for his country’s independence.  Refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the United States, he was not allowed to return to his homeland and was threatened with deportation to Guam when three of his brothers back home were arrested in the aftermath of the Balangiga “massacre”. (See next entry)

Near fine.