Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-17
JESUITS IN
THE PHILIPPINES.
Continued from Page {.

Killed-Sergeants d. l.. George, Will
liam j. Hall; Corporals Herbert II. Ed
wards, John T.. j. Hamilton; Cook Bur-
ton IL. Hees; Musician Burton r. Wag-
her; Privates Trefflis. Pomelow, Otto b.
Loose, Stephen Apperti Joseph Noel,
John IL. Kuhn, Ralph Zim, Edward
Braman, Chester A. Conklin, Walter i.
Collins, Joseph j. Kerins, Henry Du-
mas, Philip Sailing and George A. Slack,
all of Company II, Forty-thIrd Regi-
ment. u. S. V. I.
Wounded-Privates Lester Buch-
worth, Harry G. Lee. Michael J. Faron,
James ii. Clancy, Company II. Forty
third Regiment. L. s. V. l.. Corporal
White, Company f, Forty third Il. s.
Y. I. Copy of Henry T. Aliens report
forwarded by mail yesterday. Iloilo
(Panayl cable is broken by oarthquallc
Difficult to procure more definite infor-
nation.
Billed PRISON INVESTIGATION.
Washington. May I6.--It appears from
late mail adyices from Manila that the
prison officials of Biibid prison at Ma
Mia are under investigation on Il
charge of exchanging and releasing
prisoners and receiving brides Bill
Did prison, the largest i'm the Orient
contains thousands of prisoners. The
Americans were obliged to continue Al
calde Benito and other officials; in
charge because they themselves knew
nothing of the prison methods or the
Filipino language 1t is alleged that
prisoners were freely exchanged, that
natives with money were allowed to
employ subs titutes to serve their terms
and that various other forms Of cor
rupticn existed.
STARTLING JESUITICAL PAM
PHLETS.
Manila, May 15.-The most sensa ton
al of the events of the past week has
= been the general istrtbution by the
Jesuts of u pamphlet in which is set
forth truths which Christians must
observe Among the things most
strongly considered in this pamphlet
are religious tolerance ana recognition
of civil marriages. Consequently this
act of the Jcsuits is considered by
many to be an attack upon the Ameri-
can administration. The pamphlet in
question says:
Il. The commands Of the church
must he obeyed in tie same manner as
the law of Cog.
''2. You must subject your own judg-
ment to that of the church and think
exactly rs the church thinks, for the
church cannot be overcome.
80 You must reject and condemn the
Masonic sect. SO frequently rejected and
condemned by the supreme pontiffs
"a. 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 church.
70. You must also reject and condemn
liberalism and also modern progress
and civilization as being false progress
and false civilization.
&c You must utterly 81 In civil
marriage and regard ii as pure concu-
bnagc.
az. You must also condemn and reject
the Interference OF the civil authorities
In any ecclesiastical affairs, so much in
vogue nowadays.
IS Finally you must hold the belief
that the church by its origin has a di-
vine and supernatural authority, and
Is. moreover, superior To the civil uu-
thority. And rejec, ana condemn the
doctrine that the church Is Independent
or ought to separate itself from the
State. Children must be brought up in
the above views, cOndemning whatever
the church condemns. And children
must be educated solely in Catholic
schools by genuinely Catholic tcachers.
ana not on any account in unsectarian
schools which are strictly forbidden by
the church."
- AN4 SS"'hS commands are backed
pY many quotations from the Bible, &C.
ciesiasticalI, syllabus and letters from
inherent Popes This pamphlet was is
sued without -lulX nxr..assilaer 1hu...l
authority. and until ,ho organ of the
Roman Catholic Church in Manila. n
Spanish newspaper called the Iiberas-
Jus. admitted the fact that the Jesuits
mad published. and with every right. the
pamphlet in question. ccnslGerable doubt
was entertained rs TO its authority.
Blue and Gray at Grant Statue.