| Show J UL Pin ID IT a l fur AI Alleged Trifling Criticism Manila Dee Dec newspaper Democracia the tho organ of at B a coterie of FilipInos including the supreme court judges favorIng American n control In Inthe Inthe the PhilippInes tonight announces that It lIne bas been Jeen decided to sus atlon The paper was started III at the and the patronage ot of the Philippine advisory commission headed by Proto Prof J G a Schurman churman The Tho prints a single paGe In big type In the tho statement accompanying the Iho announcement ot of its lis sus suspension pension the editor says ho he has hns been directed b by the provost marshal to reo re retract tract certaIn ot of the clerIcal methods adopted In regard to the man management bt bI school and adds Recognizing the authority ot of the tho provost we 0 have no recourse except to comply antI and have decIded to suspend publication until the present extraordinary conditions regarding press matters dI disappear ap ar When we know what laws rule us by what mode we are judged and to whose jurisdiction press matters ore are amenable the Demo Democracia will wiil reappear The IThe paper has originally been a warm supporter ot of the admInistration The Tho provost marshal recently threatened to suppress It for publishing an edi editorial tonal asserting that streets were In n a worse ow condition under the tho American than under Spanish admIn The Manila Times V S also dj wIth an Intimation ot of and confiscation for printing an the cation of ofa 1 a board ot of cl charity commissions to 0 c cOn cOntrol n the charitable Institutions on nc ac count ot of rumors ot of mismanagement of by the church au authorities The complain bitterly that the authorities exercise a paternal su supervision threatening suppression they for tor trl trifling errors In the tho publication cation callon ot of news not In connection with public matters The They also sa say the cen censorship censorship handicaps newspaper enter enterprise enterprise prise by suppressing cable dispatches received from respectable agencies whose transmission Is of an exceed In 11 costly character The matter suppressed Includes reports ot of govern government ment actions among amon them being Phil Philippine and American occurrences which might give ghe the FilipInos nn an unfavorable opinion ot of the United States |
