CHAPTER X.
Mr.Bryan and Independence In order to bring home to some of my Democratic and Anti-Imperialist friends the unreliable character of the testimony of even the very high officers of the so-called Philippine Republic, I here quote certain extracts from the Insurgent records, showing the important part played, doubtless unwittingly, by Mr.William Jennings Bryan in Philippine politics during the war.

The first of these might properly have been considered in the chapter entitled "Was Independence Promised ?" Others are instructive in that they show the use made of false news in bolstering up the Insurgent cause, and might with propriety have been included in the chapter on "The Conduct of the War." I have thought it best to keep them by themselves.

Further comment on them would seem to be superfluous.
"On May 1, 1900 (P.I.R., 516.6), I.de los Santos wrote a long letter in Tagalog and cipher to Aguinaldo, in which he reported upon the progress of what he would have probably called the diplomatic campaign.

If this letter is to be believed, the agents in the United States of the junta had been able to form relations which might be of great value to them.

Santos said in part:-- "'Commissioners...