General Anderson's official dealings with Aguinaldo from June 30, 1898, until General Merritt's arrival, July 25th,
General Merritt's five weeks' sojourn in the Islands, from July 25, 1898, to the end of August, including fall of Manila, August 13th, and our relations with Aguinaldo during period indicated.
Dealings and relations between, September-December, 1898.
Two American naval officers make an extended tour through the interior of Luzon by permission of Admiral Dewey and with Aguinaldo's consent, in October-November, 1898, while the Paris peace negotiations were in progress. What they saw and learned.
An account of the negotiations, October-December, 1898. How we came to pay Spain $20,000,000 for a $200,000,000 insurrection. Treaty signed December 10, 1898.
The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation 139-151
President McKinley's celebrated proclamation of December 21, 1898, cabled out to the Islands, December 27, 1898, after the signing of the Treaty of Paris on the 10th, and intended as a fire-extinguisher, in fact acted merely as a firebrand, the Filipinos perceiving that Benevolent Assimilation meant such measure of slaughter as might be necessary to "spare them from the dangers of" the independence on which they were bent.
By order of President McKinley, General Otis abstains from hostilities to await Senate action on Treaty of Paris.
Covering the period from the outbreak of February 4, 1899, until the fall of that year.
From the fall of 1899 to the spring of 1900.
Carries the story up to the date of the arrival of the Taft Commission, sent out in the spring of 1900, to help General MacArthur run the war.
Shows how the Taft Commission, born of the McKinley Benevolent Assimilation theory that there was no real fundamental opposition to American rule, lived up to that theory, in their telegrams sent home during the presidential campaign of 1900, and in 1901 set up a civil government predicated upon their obstinate but opportune delusions of the previous year.
"The papers 'id it 'andsome But you bet the army knows."
Shows the prematurity of a civil government set up under pressure of political expediency, and the disorders which followed.
Shows divers serious insurrections in various provinces amounting to what the Commission itself termed, in one instance, "a reign of terror"--situations so endangering the public safety that to fail to order out the army to quell the disturbances was neglect of plain duty, such neglect being due to a set policy of preserving the official fiction that peace prevailed, and that Benevolent Assimilation was a success.