Show The Hocnllcd insurrection In tho Catholic church In the Philippines does I not make much headway and prObably will not It was founded on wrong premises I relied on the Idea l that the United States succeeded Spain In spirit ual as well as temporal 1 affaire and that its occupation of the country Implied a chung of spiritual offlclals as well as of those In civil control They supposed that the l United States would send out I btehrna and prlostn to succeed the Span Isli I hurch oHichils and that these v iuli take possession of the church property as the civil officials had done of the public property > But a the United States showed no signs or doing these things the Philippine ecclesiastics moved In the matter themselves and look possession of Dome of the churches Of course our Government did not succeed suc-ceed to the church property though In some cases it la l not cay to designate church property separate from public property the two were so closely Joined under Spanish dominationvBut the Ida that the United Stale will countenance any seizure of church properly Is fundamentally fun-damentally Wrong I will lake time of course to settle the titles to church property in the Philippines but the final settlement will no doubt find It held as In this country in the names of the bishops of the church with succession succes-sion to those who come after them |