“Senator Patterson. You thought it might prove of value to you?
“Admiral Dewey. I testified here, I think, in a way that answers that. I said to Aguinaldo, ‘There is our enemy; now, you go your way and I will go mine; we had better act independently.’ That was the wisest thing I ever said.
“Senator Patterson. But you stated that you were using these people and they were permitted to organize, that you might use them.
“Admiral Dewey. They were assisting us.
“Senator Patterson. Very well, they were to assist you. Did you not either permit them or encourage them—I do not care which term you use—to organize into an army, such as it was, that they might render you such assistance as you needed?
“Admiral Dewey. They were assisting us, but incidentally they were fighting their enemy; they were fighting an enemy which had been their enemy for three hundred years. “Senator Patterson. I understand that, Admiral.
“Admiral Dewey. While assisting us they were fighting their own battles, too.
“The Chairman. You were encouraging insurrection against a common enemy with which you were at war?
“Admiral Dewey. I think so. I had in my mind an illustration furnished by the civil war. I was in the South in the civil war, and the only friends we had in the South were the negroes, and we made use of them; they assisted us on many occasions. I had that in mind; I said these people were our friends, and ‘we have come here and they will help us just exactly as the negroes helped us in the civil war.’
“Senator Patterson. The negroes were expecting their freedom—