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Show wmmtmmmmmmmmm y -' r s piniiiPPixK "onmsRs. SEALS AND STAMPS USED BY 3ECRBT SOCIETIES. Many Imltna I tMeally Adapted ream Hi lailgnla "I O'lil lelloaahli and Pre Maumrr IlinlUlty to Their Nallunal Ill-Hal"- ISperlal Utter) WSSfl UK I'lilllpplnot are nfpy commonly reported nSMMKZSICn to be the moet un-H'aatxill un-H'aatxill j governuble ieoplo a JSHfflJj I of the far eit, per-Q per-Q 3 & h"P reu't of Il Jj-5r ' i fn,ur'f among llI -' .Sl tho worat govern-QgteJj' govern-QgteJj' Ml The attention riiLVif , of thla country wa JiitiiAfM1 Htn-actfd to the Philippine when tho rfpnnlih-American war broke out. b) the rebellion then in proerra agalntt Spnnlih pow-er pow-er The rebellion wnt the reiult, ao-rordlng ao-rordlng lo II )mpathlicri. of the tyranny ty-ranny and opprrmlon cicrclieil by the . religion order of Manlln, who. under Iho archblahnp largely monopolliril the admlnlalratlon of arTnlri In tho If Innda The loyal Spanlardi. on the other hand found the cntwe of nil tho trouble In the innumerable nntl-Cntli-I ollc accret tot letlea of the Philippine The conlllct ha been colled that of I'rlira agnlnat Free Moaona. II would lie unfair to the great organization or-ganization of Free Maaon lo ay that they ore In any way retponelbl for the deedi that bne lieen dono In their ,. namo In the Philippine, but that the rebel have ntlemptrd to uaeoclato, thenirelvcei wllh the rcnowneil order I evident from the pbotognpha heto Klv SB Mil AND RTAMI'3. (Uellovrd lo Have llccn I'acd lly Va-rloui Va-rloui llranrhct ot the Katlpuuan, tbo Philippine Native' Secret Society.) en, taken on the apot by one of the nbltnt war rorrctpondent In Iho far I enat. One of the lllilatrntlout reprc- I tent a number of tbo private token ' iiaed ut pmuiport and for ilmllnr pur-potr pur-potr among the different lianda of rcbelt II will bo noticed that tevcral I well-known Mruonlc rmblcnii flguro I more or Im ronilitrntly throughout I tlieio algnt One of the commonest of Iho token It (hat bearing the n.imn ot tho Ka-tagatu, or Tagtlit aoclety, tho Tngalua being the moat minierotu und powerful unions the many native tribute! trib-ute! ot the Philippine Another photograph pho-tograph Ii thai of n quail-Maaonlc apron tiaed by 'n rebela nt eecrrt mrctlnga. and alio worn In battle Tho ' nprun now depicted, w ,uli wat found I ! on the dead body of one of Ihe Intur- I genii after an engagement. Indicate I pretty clearly that the brotherhood to whom It belonged aiplrrd to di-edi of i blood. Nothing further It needed to prove that the "Free Mnaonry" of tho Munll Intiirgcnlt la nt remote from that of the real brotherhood a tho nt-tiualnallaii nt-tiualnallaii of cnemlea la from uontat combination agnlnat evlla. |