nsuccessful efforts to confiscate it. It is an interesting
document because (1) It admits how little territory the _Katipunan_
itself considered under its dominion. (2) It sets forth the sum total
of the rebels' demands at that period. (3) It admits their impotence
to vanquish the loyal forces in open battle.

To the Brave Sons of the Philippines

The Spaniards have occupied the towns of Cavite Province because we
found it convenient to evacuate them. We must change our tactics
as circumstances dictate.

We have proved it to be a bad policy to be fortified in one place
awaiting the enemy's attack. We must take the offensive when we
get the chance, adopting the Cuban plan of ambush and guerilla
warfare. In this way we can, for an indefinite period, defy Spain,
exhaust her resources, and oblige her to surrender from poverty,
for it must be remembered that the very Spanish newspapers admit
that each soldier costs a dollar a day, and adding to this
his passage money, clothing and equipment, the total amounts
to a considerable sum. Considering that Spanish credit abroad
is exhausted, that her young men, to avoid conscription, are
emigrating to France and elsewhere in large numbers, Spain must
of necessity yield in the end. You already know that Polavieja
resigned because the Government were unable to send him the
further 20,000 men demanded. The Cubans, with their guerilla
system, avoiding encounters unfavourable to themselves, have
succeeded in wearying the Spaniards, who are dying of fever in
large numbers. Following this system, it would be quite feasible
to extend the action of the _Katipunan_ to Ilocos, Pangasinan,
Cagayan, and other provinces, because our brothers in these places,
sorely tyrannized by the Spaniards, are prepared to unite with us.

The Provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, Tayabas, etc., are already
under the _Katipunan_ Government, and to complete our success,
the revolutionary movement should become general, for the ends
which we all so ardently desire, namely:

(1) Expulsion of the friars and restitution to the townships
of the lands which the friars have appropriated, dividing the
incumbencies held by them, as well as the episcopal sees equally
between Peninsular and Insular secular priests.

(2) Spain must concede to us, as she has to Cuba, Parliamentary
repres