Show CONTRADICTS POTTER Manila Priest Replies to Charges of Episcopal Bishop 4 TAXATION IS NOT NOT t I I II REVOLT WAS NOT HOT CAUSED BY B BT T OF OP 4 1 I Father Alque Declares That the Charge of General Concubinage Among Filipinos Is Not True The Clergy He Says Did Not Wot Rob Bob the People 4 I New Now York April L Rev Joseph Jo M MAique Alque director of the observatory at Manila who is now in 1111 Washington has issued i a statement in reply to Henry C Potter and his secretary Rev Percy S Grant regarding affairs ia lit the Philippines The bishops main point the state statement statement ment nent x says mys Is to prove that th t the re religious l orders have robbed the people But if the people pay the necessary charges for these certificates how bow can it be called led robbery robber That thousands thousand of people live Jive in practical concubinage as s charged by bythe bythe bythe the bishop is denied although the writer riter admits that some do live that way and asserts that there as esry e e are found a few instances of this kind Other Ot er Causes For Revolt That it was the church taxes taxed which caused the people to tl revolt is emphatically emphatically denied The writer says the causes of the revolt against the United States are like the causes of that against Spain complicated and Bishop Potter has no right to state tate that the cause cau of the outbreak among amon the natives against Spain was the taxa taxation ta taxation a atlon tion of the religious orders and friars I in the administration of the sacra sacrament sacrament sacrament ment mentIn mentIn mentIn In proof of this it is stated that most of the important parishes in the archi archipelago archipelago pelago are administered by the natives themselves as priests and at all the parishes the same ecclesiastical laws theS S as to taxes was enforced by these secular secular lar Jar priests and it is a matter of his history history tory that objected to it There Therefore Therefore 5 fore nobody can honestly state that the cause of the rebellion of the natives I against Spain was the requiring of the theta S taxes ta es in the administration of the sa na sacrament S SS |