The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-17
OBJECT 10 CENSORSHIP.
MANILA EDITORS CLAIM 1T IS EN-
TRELY TOO SEVERE.
MOI Allowed to Print Cabiegrams
Announcing Appointment of the
s. Last Commission - Publication.
Suspended on Account Of Rfxfdttx

correspondence Of the Associated Press.
MANILA. April 1e.-The Manila edItors
anu the correspondents of American news
papers here are hoping that the arrival Of
.he civil commission will result in a re-
Lorn OF the present censorship methods
oaoiesrams announcing the appointment
OF the commission were received by two Of
tho Manila newspapers but the censor for
nade them to print this news. He has az
sefted that he suppresses only that news
ihimical TO the interests OF the military
government"
frietions were frequent between the
correspondents and the previous censor
nhie the Schurmann commission was
mere, over messages relating TO the COM
MISSION, and there was sometimes much
trouble IN getting through news which the
commission had given out for publication.
Ihe editors of the local newspapers iili.
pam bitterly and unanimously that the
censorship, as II is managed infiicts upon
tnem wholly needless hardships and gr.at
financial loss. The only Filipino paper
which supported the American admins
tration has suspended publication on &C
count OF the censorship and the editor OF
lhe Oldest and most respectable ana
friendly Spanish journal announces that
ne intends to close his business and leave
Manila because II Is Impossible to publish
newspaper under the restrictions i'm
posed by the present government.
All support the Government.
The editors argue that the publication
or newspapers which support the govern
ments policy az all Of the Mania papers
DO, is an enterprise that should be en-
couraged rather than harassed. That they
pay almost prohbitve rates TO secure
cablegrams. that they are served by rep
utable and conservative press agencies.
haFr A. ,s.I
lead them to instruct their correspondents
not to throw away money on oablegrams
which could not be published They argue
that no correspondent could possibly fora
see that such news as labor strikes or the
appointment OF commission to she Phil
ippines would be considered inirnical 10
the interests OF the government, and that
moreover. the news which comes to them
Is not suppressed but merely postponed
because the Fiiipinos receive the leading
newspapers from the United States and
read them with the greatest care.
Mindanao Valuable Island.
The Americans are just beginning 10 re-
alfze that In the island of Mindanao, until
recently merely a big blot on the map.
they have wonderful empire. potentially
the most valuable of ALT the Philippine pos
sessions Although nearly as large an s.
land az Lizon. with much better Cl-
mate and capable of being made a second
Cuba in commercial value. the Spaniards
never really controlled nor even explored
It. They lived In deadly fear of the ma
tives and FILTERED away enough lives 10
have made the conquest Of an empire
without gaining possession OF more than a
fringe OF coast towns With two reg-
ments, the Thirty-first. which he recently
distributed among the towns on the SOUTH
ern and eastern coast. and the F'crtieth.
which he has just established in the north
Gen. Bates acquired for the United States
as much territory as Spain held. and what
Spain never could get. the friendship Of
all the tribes which the Americans have
encountered, tempered with wholesome
fear.
Jesuits Issue Literature.
The most sensational of the events Of
the past week has been the general dis
tribution by the Jesuits OF a pamphlet
I'm which is set forth the Truths which
Christians must observe" Among the
things strongly condemned by the Jesu-
it's in this pamphlet are religious toler-
auce and the recognition OF civil mar
riages. Consequently this act of the
Jesuits Is considered by many to be an
attack upon the American administra-
ton The pamphlet IN question says:
First-The commands Of the church
must be obeyed in the same manner as
the law OF God.
Second-You must subject your own
judgment to that of the church and
think exactly as the church thinks. for
the church cannot be overcome.
Third-You must reject and condemn
the Masonic sect. so frequently rejected
and condemned by the supreme pontiffs.
Fourth-You must also reject and con-
denim liberty of worship, liberty Of the
press. liberty Of thought and the other
liberties of perdition, condemned and re-
jected by the popes.
Fifth-You must also reject and con-
denim liberalism and also modern pro-
gress and civilization as being false pro-
gress and false civilization.
sixth-You must utterly abominate
ciyil marriage and regard II as pure con
oubinage.
seventh--You must also condemn and
reject the interferences Of the civil au-
thorities in any ecclesiastical affairs SO
much In vogue nowadays.
Eighth--Finally you must hold the be-
lief that the church. by its origin, has
"A divine and supernatural authority and
Is moreover superior To the civil authori-
ties And reject and condemn the doc
trine that the church should submit to
the state. or that the church IL indepen-
dent or ought to separate itself from the
state Children must be brought up in
the church condemns. And children must
be educated solely In Catholic schools by
genuinely Catholic teachers. and not on
any account IN unsectariau or mixed
schools. which are strictly forbidden by
the church.
AufhentIcity Is Admitted.
The foregoing commands are backed
up by many quotations from the Bible.
encycIIcals. syIlabi and letters from dif-
fersnt popes. This pamphlet vas Issued
without duly expressed church authority.
and uutn the organ az the Roman Cath
Ollie church In Manila. Spanish news
PAPER called the Libertas admitted The
fact that the Jesuits had published.
ana with every right. the pamphlet in
question. considerable doubt was enter
tatnsd as 20 lts authenticlty.
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