The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-15
The K. K. K.
Details of an
Awful Secret Society.

III viii execute at any cost 20 my
self or others. Immediately. uaauestion-
ingly and exactly. all orders accompanied
BY The Sacred and Secret Word.
Ill viii cherish active and undyiug
hatred against spsni&rds and other for
eigners.
IV.-when the order comes / viii per-
sonally assist 20 slaughter. at once ana
without mercy or distraction. all foreign
ers within reach OF my revenge
VI VIII keep these cats while nv life
lasts ana should forget or dfsobey
them I viii -;ghtfuny suffer the most
horrible death which my associates eau
infict upon me
According 70 the New York World.
this IS free translation % the oath *
the terrible Katipunan secret society. the
soul and centre Of the Filipino 'war-
which :. In Admiral pewey's phrase.
"the brains behind Agu'naldo"
Il Is an organization vaster than re
Italian Mafa or Camorra. more cunning
than the Hindoo thugs. more bold than
the Russian Nihnists Organized under
a patriotic instinct. Il wells ITSELF n nvs-
terry. puts the punishment % death upon
any member who disobevs It's order %
reveals its secrets and laughs az the ban
o. the church.
The Kataastsasan EaEalanFEalanz
Katipunan. whose banner hears the
dreaded insignia ~ X. K. k" has been
In existence FOR only Eve wears
There was time when patriotic FIJI
pinos who,had become educated ara had
read ~ political changes IN Europe ara
America. dreamed az rescuing the Phii-
ippnes from robbery and misruls hy
peaceful means.
They soon found that open agitation
served only 20 cause the arrest and exc
cution ~ all who protested against span
ish extortions and the coniscs;ion e
their estates
The Spanisrds taxed ire natives n
every possible wsy. practically ensisvef
them by enforcing them to work without
pay on stolen estates or kept ;hen IA
virtual bondage hy prohlbiavs rentals
In lS72 the native Filipino soldiers mu-
tinted. II was their plan 20 rise IN Ma.
Mia and butcher all the spaalarts. The
plans were not we'll maturcd and only
Cavite was subjected ta baptism =
blood.
y was a horrible crime against human
ity that hatchery, and % met stth q hoe
rihie reprisal The Spanlards shovel
themselves far more onerretic 81 VAR
than in peace They harr.ed Thousands
% honcstf armers on the plea that they
OF honest farmers on the plea that th,s
were rebels: they put 20 medieval tor-
ture hundreds % natives suspected e
guilty knowledge ~ the massacre Ths
worst thlng they did. the most foolish
politically. as we'll as most !ndefensleia
on moral gropnds-was The killing p
Padre Bureos. The dearly beloved Filipino
priest. man % the most sanity Hsa
ard character.
When he lay bleeding IN a long row of
men who had been ranged alaug a blank
wall and kried by a firing squad tha
'Llga Filipino" was formed nr Rial
was az SIS haad the most cultured an1
intelligent. and probably the ahlest man
who has ever been connected with The
TaRai uprising
Again the same dishearteninr story 81
cross purposes and divided aims ana
then Or Rial was also aiken snd shot.
That dag the islands lost their best
leader
The native leaders had seen The blood
NJ their beet and bravest GOO often naw.
They resolved that Vhat they should 80
IL the future should De n secret
81 Ave wears ago ne Katinunan was
formed. 1ts object was nos a league -
leaders bar a league - an entire people.
They included the rich ana IRE poor.
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