Part 6 (2/2)

NOTES

[1] ”The Wanderings of a Globe-Trotter in the Far East.” By the Hon. Lewis Wingfield. 1889.

[2] See interview with General Merritt, published in the New York Herald, Oct. 4, 1898.

[3] In the Administration, of Madrid, one of the leading reviews in Spain.

[4] One may hardly be surprised that men who have been robbed of their all--reputation, home, and field of work--are apt to be plain-spoken and severe when commenting upon those who have upset their lives, and destroyed the sacred interests of the religion to which they had devoted themselves unreservedly. Friends, on the other hand, of the persons who have been the instruments of such ruin, are sure to uphold the destroyers as heroes, great of character and great of deed. Hence we need not be surprised at such different estimates of Aguinaldo as those referred to in a sketch of him published in the American Review of Reviews for February, 1899.

”Friends and enemies agree that he is intelligent, ambitious, far-sighted, brave, self-controlled, honest, moral, vindictive, and at times cruel. He possesses the quality which friends call wisdom, and enemies call craft. According to those who like him he is courteous, polished, thoughtful, and dignified; according to those who dislike him he is insincere, pretentious, vain, and arrogant. Both admit him to be genial, generous, self-sacrificing, popular, and capable in the administration of affairs. If the opinion of his foes be accepted he is one of the greatest Malays on the page of history. If the opinion of his friends be taken as the criterion he is one of the great men of history, irrespective of race.”

[5] ”Rhodesia and its Government,” by H. C. Thomson. ”Malaboch; or Notes from my Diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch,” by the Rev. Colin Rae.

[6] A recent report in the daily papers (April, 1899), that one or another of the most civilized Indian tribes, of which remnants remain, is determined upon emigration from the United States to Mexico, because of the fairer treatment they have reason to look for there, will certainly not surprise those who are familiar with the broken promises and rescinded obligations that have marked the Government's dealing with the Red man and his Catholic educators and missioners.

[7] It is with real satisfaction that, at the last moment, we find ourselves permitted to mention the name of this venerable and experienced man--the Very Rev. Padre Gallego, O.P., Convento della SS. Trinita, Rome; and we can but express the regret that the worth of this n.o.ble disciple of Christ is not known of in the outside world as it is among his confreres; then, indeed, his word would have the authority it deserves among all who love religion, and struggle for the uplifting of humanity.

[8] From the a.n.a.lecta Ordinis Praedicatorum.

[9] ”Hongkong to Manila,” by H. T. Ellis, R.N.

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