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Show THE WAR IS THE PHILIPPINES Tke Natives Had Good Cause to Revolt of Their Spanish Rapacity Victims of the Masters They Had Been Harried hy Corrupt Officials and Clergy. n, 6 vmt V,, L s-s V 1AK0H B ) F"0,r ,4 cue-fift- balf-bree- e of the rebellion The primary ing them the right to seize upon whatwhich has existed m the Philippines ever they may. There are many and fcliH-July, 1S90, was the corruption celebrated instances of this condition and insuiable greed of Spanish off- of things, including General Weyler, icials, leading them to extremes of taxGeneral Blanco, and General Riviera. ation ar.d persecution in order to enStill more extraordinary than the aparich th revives. The first cry of the of Spain to this legalizing of correvolution5 was Dunn with the tax- thy is the fact that the colonies es." which e.ioii was (.hanged to Down ruption with terror regard evoiy change of with the clergy" and finally to it means a that knowing ministry, taxes, which soon was changed to of governor general and anothchange "Down with the Spanish." The gover swooping down of birds of prey, ernment and ecclesia&tir al authorities ravenous appetites must be whose to were Joined in an unholy alliance The hatred of colonists for wring profit from the misery of the na- the mother country is made greater of tives. The richer class is made up because all minor offices in the islands, foreigners, Germans, Chinese, Emrilsh-meeven to the clerkships, are given to and a few Americans, who, exactof the new ministers, and nafavorites ing a greater tribute from the native tives are never allowed to share in the agriculturists, pay a less to the goverthe renor and the host of greedy alcalJes and feast. Moreover, the lands cf The increase. orders steadily minor officials. Briefly, these were the ligious enormous and monks possess priests causes which led to insurrection in Cuba as well as the Philippines, and plantations from which they derive Immense revenues. The people are which in the end will rob Spain of the to made for sacraments, end pay dearly two last gems of her colonial crown. Wherever there was disaffection it the fees exacted are much greater than and in any parish of Europe. The clergy was encouraged by republicans to live in luxury, giving themselves up in end in the Spanish Carlists, hoping serve themselves by weakening the their Isolation not only to every manner of secular indulgence but to the kingdom. in In the Philippines there ia added to most atrocious excesses, which in drive would them disgrace Spain imofficial corruption the shocking morality of the European clergy, be- from the church. While these functionaries enjoy freelonging to all known monastic orders, dom from taxation, any native, man who encourage abuses of governmental and woman, without reference to propauthorities that they may gain immunity from an interference in thir erty income or station, is compelled to An Indian woman nefarious business. Year hy year the pay a fixed tax. taxes have been increased and have as- without employment and not owning sumed proportions out of all reasonable any furniture must pay 10 pesetas. A relation to the yield of rice fields and man must pay 45 pesetas. Defaulting in this payment, he is forced to work sugar plantations. The people protested feebly against new impositions, for fifteen days on the roads. Every but as opposition to the government Individual whose trade does not exceed increased the rigor of the rule grew, the sale of a few betel nuts, a basket and hundreds of men and women were of mangoes, or a bunch of bananas, must pay an additional tax, as must deported without trial to the penal colonies of the Caroline and Marianne also tho natives who go from the coun -s- other peninsular eitie3 to he educated, and return to their homes with knowledge of the freedom of speech and unrestricted liberty of the press in Spain and imbued with republican cr anarchist ideas, which encourage them to Masonry Spread Socialism. the free expression of their Masonic lodges were introduced into attempt The result is persecution. the archipelago by socialists driven to opinions. a native, no matter how Furthermore, Manila after the insurrection of Cariven a salaried is never prominent, tagena. It is true that these people official position, all cf which are monoclosed their lodges as soon as the crepolized by the retainers cf different showed their inoles and To all of the wrongs deministries. mistention of joining them, but the to be added the notorious are scribed chief was done with the lesson. The of the judiciary and the corruption in natives began to establish societies the of police. all parts of the Elands, and in a' few brutality The people yielded submissively to years had eniclled 30,000 members. The injustice for many years. mysterious and symbolic attracts the accumulating one of the chief characterTolerance is imaginations of these people, and the istics of the natives of the Indian, disopportunity cf secret meeting and who greatly resemble cussion of grievam s without fear of Philippines, the Japanese. their near neighbors, betrayal was seized upon enthusiastictwo years ago was alTheir uprising memnew custom a for is It the ally. to witnesses of ber to make a gash in his arm, and most incomprehensible of established the authority, respect of over the blood he mixes with that of habit the initiator he swears his allegiance. submission, and gentleness misrule. of years through Each member, therefore, hears a scar Blanco was deposed hy the enmity of on his arm, and this mark makes him the monks, who thought him too tola suspect of Spanish authorities. It erant and without the cruel energy a has happened many times' that prisoner has been convicted and shot on no they demanded. Folavieja, his succesother evidence than this telltale mirk. sor, was taken with fever and returned to Madrid. After him came General Many women associated themselves o de Rivera, and now General Primo in these orders. Sedition has thus been in is Devilio up pent Augustin and fostered, free from civil, religious Manila by Admiral Deweys fleet. military authorities, and a regime of liberty roughly formulated. The lodges are mort numerous in Cavite, the ENGLAND AND AMERICA. principal theater of the rebellion, while in Batangas, Bulacan, and Pampanga Our Friends Across the Horcler on the there are ten to twenty branches of War with Spain. the order, and at least one in each of The great war now impending has Their growing almost as great an interest for Canthe other provinces. influence and implacable hatred of the adians as though they were particiclergy was a source of grave apprehenpants in and not mere spectators of the sion to the priests, who petitioned the struggle, says the Montreal Star. There minister to order General Ramon has been considerable friction between Blanco, then governor general of the our neighbors and ourselves, no doubt archipelago, now of CuDa, to put an on account of the very intimacy and But General freedom of our relations. Brothers are end to Freemasonry. Blanco was not energetic in carrying perhaps more apt to quarrel than out this command, being too much ocstrangers, but there is seldom any cupied in a contest against Mohammebitterness in their quarrels, and there danism in Mindanao. The government, is no nation under heaven that we again appealed to by the priests, and Britons would like to see whip the peculiarly susceptible to this influence, United States, unless now and then peremptorily ordered Blanco to take under great provocation we feel as the rigorous measure of deporting 400 though we would not mind doing it members of the lodges. In times of peace and ourselves. This order was the direct cause of prosperity there may be rivalries bethe uprising in 1896, which began in tween us; there may be occasional Manila, and extended to Cavite, Paminternational threatening and gibing, panga, Laguna and Bulacan, but not to because we both have our share of other provinces, because of the ancient fools, but in times of national trial or rivalry of the races, the surest safe- misfortune the dominant feeling guard of Spanish rule. This is a facamong Britons is that the two nations tor in the politics of the islands that are one people. Their blood, their trathe government fully appreciates, to ditions, their history in great part, the point, indeed, of encouraging the their characteristic virtue and their Before the confactional enmities. characteristic faults, to a large exislands were tent, are all ours. the quest by Magellan Apart from the merruled by warrifjk Sultans, and there its of the quarrel between the United still remain vestiges of numerous States and Spain it is impossible that tribes. men of British blood could ever wish Because of his inactivity and appar- to see the people of the United States ent indulgence to the rebels Blanco was "fall into the hands of Spain. Ameridenounced in Madrid by religious bod- can diplomacy is rough, and it is posies. What exasperated the priests sible that the awful calamity of war most was that he refused to kill Rizal, might have been averted by diplomacy wrho was by them proclaimed to be the of another order, but the end in view, principal factor in the rebellion. As a the termination of the reign of hprror matter of fact, however, this does not in Cuba, compels our sympathies. appear to be true, and no just cause Spains methods of colonial governwas given for such summary action. ment are not our methods. Spains way The clergy sought retenge upon Rizal of fighting is not our way and all our denunabove everything else for his sympathies will go with the brave solciation of them to the people. diers and sailors of a free people fightRIzalg Tragic Career. ing for the cause of humanity and d Rizal was a Indian, who struggling to extend the bounds of freeThere is one more bond of was brought up by the Dominicans of dom. Manila. He went to Europe, studied union between Creat Britain and the medicine, law, sciences and foreign United States in connection with this England is more than a geotongues, and returned to Manila hon- war. ored with the highest degiee of congraphical expression; to the rest of tinental universities, a Freemason, and the world it is synonymous with a the inexorable foe of the corrupt cler- type of civilization that the aliens do gy. He was the author of a novel not love; a type characterized by civil called Nolle Me Tangere, in which he and religious liberty; by enlightenThis showed the despotic, rapacious and dement, progress and prosperity. bauched nature of the priests of the "Greater England includes two great country. This book was placed in the nations of common origin and comIndex Expurgatorius and the author's mon aspirations, though of diverse allegiance. The best British subject is goods confiscated, his brothers deporthimman whose ideas are broad enough the and mother banished, his ed, aged and sympathies wide enough to emself relegated to the Island of Minbrace this Greater England." With danao, entirely peopled by Mohammethese two nations united (we do not dans, mortal enemies of Spain. Rizal lived in this exile for several mean politically), the English tjpe of years, until he learned that physicians civilization must prevail. and surgeons were needed with the "Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. troops fighting in Cuba. He offered his services to Spain, which accepted them, With the union jack and the stars and and he embarked at Manila for Barcestripes blended, Come the three corners of the world lona. When he arrived at the peninin arms, sula and was ready to leave for Havana And we shall shock them. he was arrested, sent back to Manila, Whether Englands part in the comsummarily tried, and executed. This was the work of Governor Polavieja, ing struggle will be a passive one remains to be seen, but at least her who had succeeded Blanco. While Rizal was on his journey to Spain rebelsympathy will keep the rest of Eulion had broken out, and the anger of rope in check. . the authorities against him was aroused by new charges of perfidy made by Dense Population In Bombay. the priests, to whom Polavieja was deThe greatest density of population voted. The execution of Rizal made in the world is claimed for Bombay, the rebellion more furious, and the in- and is only disputed hy The Agra. as much to avenge his surgents sought of Bombay amounts to 760 death as their wrongs. Rizal to them population acre in certain areas, and per was the martyred hero of their cause. persons in these sections the street area only The first victims of the rebels were the of the whole. occupies priests. Their monasteries were burned, and the hatred for the monks Her Spirit Aroused. sought extremes of cruelty In its expression. Chicago News: Why have you Not only the uneducated and super- broken oft with Will Kempton? He stitious elements of the population took accused me of having a weakness for part in the rebellion, but the most building castles in Spain, and here prominent native families. .Many young Ive sympathized with Cuba right from men aro sent each year to Madrid and the first. of these tae3, for they receive a perof all the centage, usually revenues cf the colony, in addition to money which the law duos not allow but custom never questions. ') wt '. 001 I MM., II d3 Ba-sili- pure-bloode- MAP OF TUB CENTRAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, (The population In 1X96 was fl.noo.ono, or twice as iarse as the Dominion of Canada. The natural resources are far richer than England's possessions to the north of us.) Islands. Within recent years a means for secret meeting has been given by the Introduction of Masonic lodges, which have Increased rapidly in number and in membership. The clergy brought to bear all of its immense influence with authorities both at Madrid and Manila for the suppression of these organizations, and so severe was the persecution of the Free Masons and so great became the abuse of the arbitrary power of alcaldes to imprison and deport suspects that the Spanish government issued a decree declaring that every individual whose culpability was not proved after forty-eighours imprisonment should be given his liberty. Flaee for Nuisance. It has long been a notorious fact in Spain that generals whose influence among the people is becoming too great for the entire comfort of the regency or who are disaffected through the constant shifting of politics are sent to Cuba or to the Philippines to make or remake their fortunes. If they return to Spain with riches out of all proportion to the emoluments of their office nobody commits the indiscretion of asking the source. Their commissions are recognized as letters of marque giv ht try into Manila to sell nothing more than a chicken or a fish. At one time in every village there were several weavers whose cotton cloths, much prized hy the natives, had a ready and remunerative sale. This local industry has disappeared owing to a royal decree favorable to the manufacturers of Catalonia, which permitted their goods to enter without duty. These manufacturers sent goods of an inferior quality and extraordinary cheapness and drove the native workmen out of competition. This was the only industry known in the Philippines, and there remained only the cultivation of the fields. But the native, if owner of a rice plantation or a field of sugarcane, almost always sells his crops standing in the field or plantation at a price which barely pays for the cost of raising to the d Chinese, who in turn sell them to the German, English or American traders at an enormous profit. Not satisfied with the tributes of the rich Chinese and foreign houses, the governors impose taxes upon the poor native landholders which take from them everything they may gain from their crops. The governors are energetic in the collection half-bree- one-four- th The War and Organize J I.alior. Fiom tne roi.ti4.iuii.ai: ire atti tude of labor ur.ioua m the impending struggle k.va.a our ccnntry and Spain a ill furnlah food for thought on the part cf tLc.c superior Leing3 who heretofore hove had uUt little sympathy with the ain-- and purposes of labor organizations. War ameug workingmen is not recognised as the beot method of promoting general welfare, but experience has demonstrated that tyranny and oppression as applied to goverr meats have seldom been over-- , thrown without an appeal to the gauge of battle. In this instance the bond of sympathy between the citizens of the United States and the struggling Inhabitants of Cuba has nowhere found more ranks. active promotion than Trades unions flourish only in countries where liberty is recognized as a natural right. Instead of being inimical to the growth and development of free government, labor organizations keep alive a spirit of manhood and ln-- ( dependence in their members, and the cause of humanity, not the greed of aggression finds In the workingmens ranks its best defenders, because they bjtve felt the force of oppreesion. Spain, with her blind and barbaric system of government, crushes labor at home and robs it abroad. In her arrogance she has for more than a generation committed outrages upon the citizens of the United States, finally murdering the crew cf the Maine in the most cowardly and brutal manner. The army of this nation will be recruited from the ranks of toil, always loyal to the oause represented by the flag of freedom. Happily the working people will be in position to deliver a blow at the common enemy of humanity and at the same time demonstrate pathat unionism means triotic citizenship. s irtors high-minde- d, "Martyrdom. the age of seventeen Misa Willard records In her diary this tragic announcement of the end of tier romping girlhood: This is my birthday, and At the date of my martyrdom. Mother insists that at last I must have my hair done up woman-fashioShe says she can hardly forgive herself for letting me run wild so long. Weve had a great time over it all, and here I sit like another Samson shorn of his strength. That figure wont do, though, for the greatest trouble with me is that I never shall be shorn again. My back hair is twisted up like a corkscrew; I carry eighteen hairpins; my head aches miserably; my feet are entangled in the skirt of my hateful new gown. I can never jump over a fence again, so long as I live. As for chasing the sheep down in the shady pasture, It is out of the question, and to climb to my eagle-nek seat in the big would ruin this new frock beyond repair. Altogether, I recognize the fact that my occupations gone. A horse will live twenty-fiv- e days without food, merely drinking water. HOW RELIEF CAME. n. st bur-oa- From Cole County Democrat, Jefferson City, Mo. Wnen la grippe visited this section about seven years ago Herman H. Eveler, of 811 W. Main St,, Jefferson Mo., was one of the victims, and has sincq been troubled with the after-effecof the disease. He is a ts well-know- n contractor and builder, & business requiring much mental and physical work. 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