Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-07-14

was an un6sguised attack on the 1riARa
Of the Philippines. He drew picturesof
their lives and performances that were
unmistakable. :s..!s II ss3
The book was published in Belgium
In 1885, butt quickly made its way
to the Philippines, where il madsa
tremendous sensation. AZ to its literary
merit, reports are contrad ictory One
side represents II as a work of dazsling
genius. A Jesuit father. on the other
hand, tells me 1t is coarse and com
mon in its literary style. and Of literary
style the scholarly padre is certainlysa
Judge. At any rate. whatever the liter
airy style Of his novel. it made his M
tive land too hot to hold him when Ne
came back to Manila In 1887, and ke
found II expedient TO 60 to Hongkong
and stay not on the order OF his going.
At Hongkong he organized the Philip
pine league to work against the religious
orders and for the independence Of tie
islands. an idea which by this time had
taken shape in his mind. In 1888 she
returned to Europe and wrote his
second novel. The Filibuster a Sequel
to Noi Me Tangere. : AT the same
time he began writing q history % the
Philippine Islands. H. \ ~, SS
The fathers who were his former
teachers speak regretfully Of this period
in Risal's life. They cast the blame of
it all on his residence and travels ia
Europe ''In Europe. !" one Of the
padres told me, che associated with
Protestants and Lutherans and bad
people, and thus became unsettled il
his principles. find in a churchTec-
ord Of him that the Freemasons are
blamed for filling his mind with indie
pendent and revolutionary sentime1ts,
the writer thus at one clever stroke
giving black eye to both Freenasonry
and republication. vi n
At any rate, the poor Tag alos bowed
down to Rial living as to god and
worship the memory Of him dead as
that Of blessed saint and martyr. he
was of their own race and ito them the
finest flower it ever had produced or
could produce. Indeed he was a charac-
ter to call ont the enthusiastic admira-
ton of even white man. Daring,
gifted and generous, he had withal an
executive and organizing power that
would have done credit to statesman
Of Europe or America. Night or day,
too, his services as physician or oculist
were ready for the poor Free charge,
and he was ever as generous as if he
had been a millionaire instead of
poor revolutionist earning his own iv-
ing A." 49, ~. n,
At length he ventured back to Ma
Mia, never ceasing his revolt against
corrupt government and boss rule. The
friars' ring on it's part never ceased
working either, and their object was
his downfall. They still remembered
''Noli Me Tangere. )" Finally, in 1892.
they obtained government decree
banishing him from Manila to Dapitan,
in the island of Mindanao. He could
have escaped at any time and gone to
Europe or America and been alive and
prosperous today, but he refused to do
90. He remained as near Manila as posr
sible working. planning still to free
his poor Tagalos. =s1s ~ Z. IS I.;sS !.
The unfortunate feature of the case
was, however. that the Tagalos exceed
ed his instructions and precipitated the
revolution before it was ripe. A$secret
deputation Of natives from Manila Wis
tied him in his exile and told him of q
projected rieing. i
.'Do not do it," he said. "You are
not strong enough. Wait, wait till all
our brothers have been won over and
we have arms and force large enough
to annihilate our enemies at one blow. :
They did not take this excellent advice,