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Show Filipinos Are Sunday Observers. The Manila American contains the following announcement, -which a certain cer-tain class of Americans ought to read with close attention: "Because of the difficulty of securing and keeping printers the natives having a decided antipathy to working on Sundays, repeatedly re-peatedly absolutely refusing to set types or work presses on Sunday nights the Manila Freeman and the Manila American are reluctantly compelled com-pelled to suspend, at least temporarily, the issuing of their papers oh Monday mornings. It is hoped that better facilities fa-cilities may be secured later." The benighted heathen in the Philippines has been in the habit of going to , church on Sunday and of abstaining j from unnecessary manual labor. But j when he has assimilated the civilization civiliza-tion of his civilizers he will not go to j church, and all the days of the week will be the same to him. There is an advanced school of sectarian clergymen in this country that is opposed to Sunday Sun-day labor, whether on newspapers or In saloons. We trust they will receive with proper exultation the news that the benighted Filipino i a consistent believer in the policy they advocate. Ave Maria.- |