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Cebu. The chaplains who embarked in the ship Coruna with the Comendador de San Juan Don Garcia Jofre Loaiss also belonged to the secular clergy.
to the parochial revenues that dictated the dis- | obedience referred to, a disobedience that
rendered its author liable to legal penalties.
The Governor-General having on the 23rd November issued a decree directing that the. provisions of the previous notifications were to be complied with, the Archbishop was greatly incensed, and although his attack was directed against the Governor-General it also affected the memory of the late King Don Alfonso XII., from whom he had received great favour and to whom he owed his mitre. Upon reading this decree he retired to the convent of the Dominican Fathers in order to avoid assistance at the memorial service in honour of the late Monarch, Don Alfonso XII., which was to be held on the 25th November, thus gratifying his spite by insulting the Government, the nation, and in particular the Queen Regent and King Don Alfonso XIII., it being his duty as Archbishop to personally conduct the service. That his absence was not due to illness was shown by the fact that on the same day he célébrated mass at Novatas. His absence from the memorial service was an act of rabéllión against the Government. His conduct caused the greatest indignation in the Government and the nation. Reference is made to specific laws anthorising the Governor-General to expel from the country "religiosos" guilty of scandalous' conduct and it is submitted that the Archbishop should be expelled accordingly.
Reference is next made to another scandal said to be not less grave, namely, that whereas the feast of St. Andrew should according to law be celebrated in the city and suburbs the Archbishop had issued an order confining the celebration to the city alone.
This haughtiness and pride of the Archbishop are influenced and explained by the fact of his being a member of the Dominican Order and counting on its support; the said corporatión being very powerful and rich, like all the other Orders in the country, which are all véritable Rothschilds; in contravention óf théir státütes, which impose a vow of poverty. Their wealth is the lever of their arbitrariness and intrigues in this country, as it was in Spain so long as they were allowed to exercise their pernicious infinates there.
The truth of this is proved by the present realatance of the parochial friars to the orders above referred to, to the set of disrespect com- mitted by the parish priest of Pasig, an Augus- tine friar, against the Director-General of the Civil Administration, as well as by the sad and disgraceful history of the frists lä this country, their disobedience to the Govern ment, the insurrections fomented by them, and the murder of Governors-General who have ruled these islands with impartiality and justice.
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The friars are anti-Spanish and their in- elination is to protect the Chinese, although the latter may be traitors to the country, which tendency has been manifest at all times, and especially in the present epoch, as is proved by the Binondo question, in which the parish priest, Friar José Hevia Campomanes, gave privileges to the Chinese in Binondo which he denied to the natives, and when the Governor General justly withdrew these privileges, he proved rebellious, for which he is now suffering exile and interdiction. His conduct shows that the friars think only of their own interests, disregarding the common good and that of the country, and carrying on a campaign against the Government when it is sought to put restraint on their exploitations.
In the history of this country are recorded insurrections promoted by the friars against the Governors-General, amongst them Don Diego Salcedo, who was taken by a crowd led by the Rev. Father Paternin, who with hiể following penetrated into the General's apart ments, bribing an old female servant to open the door for them. Finding Senor Salcedo asleep they took him, placed him in fétters, and imprisoned him in San Francisco, whence he was transferred to San Augustin, being after wards shipped for Acapulco in Mexico and dying at sea.
In another insurrection prompted in the church of the Augustine Fathers both Governor General Don Fernando Bustamante Bustillo y Reuda and his son were treacherously murdered within the same Palace, and in this affair the friars of all the orders were involved. This is recorded in chapter 20, page 338, and chapter 24, page 457, of the History of the Philippines, | official edition, but not in that written by the friars, from which these disgraceful. incidents are omitted.
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We have thus proved that the friars always conspire against established authority and against officers who are not amenable to, their Machiavelian policy, that they employ villanous means to crush them, that they are therefore á terrible évil to the country and an element dangerous to the Government, and that with their calumnious denunciations of con- spiracy, to make believe that they are necessary, they have disturbed the peace of this tran quil archipelago.
Not only may their influence corrupt a second- rate power, but in Russia, France, and Ger. many, powerful nations of the first order, the friars have bad to be expelled, because their malign influence might undermine the strongest
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prohibit the cure of only be regarded as temporarily, in the number of the secular, cler longer exists.
The petition, which is further denunciation of the immediate expulsion under such and such a law. friars under other laws, th the benefices and landed property of
sation of the University of St.
In another petition dressed the Queen Regent it is saida) desire for emancipation from the Spain is a false imputation bro whose action sets the G
Governmen people and the people against the and so prevents the advancement of the Separation, the petition, goes on to be detrimental to the Philippines. phical character of the country, con great number of islands, i ind: the the local dialects, render necessary, as union such as is supplied by the ung of Without such a bond disastrous ruptures, be inevitable.
In this petition of the Philippines, of the country, révolution of Cavitó
was a mere affair of ins troops, which wa and that it had no tion whatsoever. When command arrived in steamer plying in the by any force whatever, th suppressed. But the
of St. Domingo, St. Augustine ringing, and afterwards; three of clergy were executed merchants, and lawyers y
SUPREME COURT.
10th August.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
BEFORE HIS Honour Dr. CarRINGTO
(CHIEF JUSTION.) –
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The law requires that parish priests should Bearing in mind the insurrections promoted take measures to facilitate the learning of by men wearing monastic habits it is not im- Spanish by the natives, but the friars, as the possible that they may conspire also against the enemies of all progress and improvement, and life of Your Excellency and the other officers in order that the natives, may not be able to responsible for the carrying out of the law re- communicate with Spainards or to instruct lating to interments, which is so obnoxious to THE KUNG NO FIRM V. THE WING CHEONGA themselves by reading periodicals and books in them, for as Senor Castelar said in his speech
FIRMAN BR the Spanish language which would show them in parliament, replying to Senor Manterols, In this suit his Lordship delivered the
e follow the abuses of the friars, have opposed education Bishop of Jaen, the church will sanction the ing judgment: in that language, as shown by the result of the most criminal acts if committed for its own In this case the plaintiff: Arm on, the 19th *. inspection made in the various provitices by the benefit. See the case in which St. Pius V., the June, 1896, recovered judgment again Director-General of the Civil Administration, holy Pope, wrote to Philip II., King of Spain, fendant firm for the sum; of 35,7 who found that in the majority of the schools, saying it was necessary to find at any cost an interest at the rate of 8ft pen by order of the friars, the Spanish language was assassin to kill Elizabeth of England, by which annum from the 29th April, 1895, not taught. A further proof is afforded by the great service would be rendered to God and the judgment, and their costs of sui book in Tagalo entitled written by Friar church, in witness whereof there remains the this judgment could not be Miguel Lucio Bastamente, a Franciscan friar, autograph letter of the said holy Pope in the Wat Kai Hun, the sole registe the parish priest of Tanay, in the district of correspondence between Philip II, and the Pope the defendant firm, becanse he hɛ Morong, in which the writer counsels fathers of preserved in the Government archives.
while disappeared from the colon families not to allow their sons to learn Spanish, Again, not only are the friars prejudicial May, 1896, the plaintiff, ok out because, he says, if they do they will no longer on account of their disobedience but also on ao-calling upon; Wat Kai Hes and respect the priest and their parents and will count of their retrogressive aims and opposi- to show cause why execut coase to be useful members of society. In tion to all improvement in order that they against them as being members of t further corroboration a quotation is given may continue to exploit the country and im- firm. At. he hearing of thin po from a despatch by Governor-General Dr. poverish the inhabitauts, maintaining their appeared and denied their Simon de Ands y Zalazar, dated 13th April, despotic ascendancy while the natives continue upon it was ordered that 1763, showing that the friars have opp8lell the steeped in ignorance, in opposition to the wish be determined by the trial teaching of Spanish to the natives ever since of the Government, which desires the civilisa- the Court. The for
úquest and havé punished those who spoke tion of its subjects for the honour of the the plaintiffs affirmed.
unge. It is to the Govern midn't, not country, but which cannot give effect to its Wat Sam Kun resp
ara, that the country owes its enlight-wishes for want of funds, because the resourses, the years 1888,
Nor were the friars the first to of the inhabitants of the country are absorbed Hee and Wa the gospel, "the" first being a secular in the various speculations of the friars, who, defenda icet: the chaplain of the ship Magallanes, who In their pursuit of wealth, disgrace C
Wat the first mass in Butuan and Baptised the Reference is then made to the king and eight knfired natives of the island of illegal associations under the cont
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