Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — FLIGHT OF AGONCILLO. [ARTICLE]

FLIGHT OF AGONCILLO.

Aguinaldo’s Representative in Washington fr kips to Canada. Filipe Agoncillo, the agent of the rebel Aguinaido, on the eve of the conflict at Manila fled with his secretary from Washington to Montreal. He is nnder the constant watch of American secret service agents. At the first act showing him to be a spy the Canadian Government will be asked to expel him. This meddlesome young Filipino, while in Washington, several times laid himself liable to arrest, but a cabinet officer ex-

plained that he had not been molested for two reasons. These were that the President considered him too insignificant, and it was deemed unwise to do anything that would seem like interference with the deliberations of the Senate on the peace treaty. Since arriving in Montreal Agoncillo has said: “If the Americans seek to subjugate the Filipinos it will mean an everlasting war. We fought the Spaniards for hundreds of years for our independence; we will still fight for it to the last man.”