The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-09
CATHOLIC FEDERATION.
Philippine Policy of Administration
Severely Scored.

A1AApP4AS LO4ASy VI 1a01uAAA0I1oCAO
Severely Scored.
n HICAGo, Aug. 5.-The American
Association of Catholic societies
met this afternoon and evening
at the Y. NJ. c. A. hall.
1t was evident from the tenor of re-
marks made in the afternoon that the
convention would not heed the mani
festo of Archbishop Ireland warning
them against discussion of the ad-
ministrations methods in the Philip
pines.
At the evening meeting Bishop Nc
Faul of Trenton. N. j., was the prin-
cipal speaker, and directed his atten-
ton to the treatment of friars and
the schools in the Philippines. The
bishop said:
THE calm, intelligent observer must
admit that some of the statements
made in the public press regarding the
situation in the Philippines were either
incorrect or exaggerated.
There was, nevertheless, a subStan-
tial foundation of truth in most of the
reports, which amply justified the
structures made upon those account
able for the abuse of power.
ANO OlIG Is IOOilSn .eIlOuSI 10 dQlIlll
that in affairs of so important a ma
ture mere denials are conclusive, par
tieularly when made by interested par
ties. We had already been warned
to be on our guard by previous con-
Predictions of reports which were aft
erward proved true and found worse
than at first suspected. When the
news arrived that the Catholic
churches, in the Philippines were de-
stroyed and looted, officers of high
rank in the army attempted to refute
the charges, yet the destruction and
footing of those sacred edfftces are now
so certain that claims for damages to
ecclesiastical property will be accept
ed by the government.
outrages of Army.
Reports, too, of the frightfuI. spread
of drunkenness and immortality after
the occupation of Manila, the Ameri-
cans vigorously assailed.
Is there now anyone who has the
audacity to question their truth? Since
then we have all heard of the water
cure and the murderous orders issued
by an American general. The perpe-
tration of these outrages We're not
known for time; they were, however,
so fragrant that it was impossible to
keep them from the knowledge of the
public. The introduction alone of the
public school system was Just cause
for alarm
The speaker then declared that the
federation is deeply interested in OBJ
tanning just treatment for the friars in
the Philippines who had suffered, he
declared, under so many cruel cal
umnies.
Bishop MeFaul charged that in Sc
lecting school teachers for the Philip
pines discrimination had been prac-
ticed against the Catholics because of
total of 96T teachers who he said,
had been sent to the islands. but eight
cen or nineteen were Catholics.
THE impression has gone abroad"
the bishop said, that America is fur
nishing educational facilities to the
Filipines for the first time, and that the
people were in a state of dense ignor-
ance. This is another calumny. Dur
ing centuries the friars dwelt with the
tribes of the Filipinos and it is to
them that they are indebted for what
ever they possess of education and re-
ligion.
"They are a chaste and a pure people,
unaware Of many of the vices of civil
ization until American soldiers occu-
pied their soil''
The convention will meet in execu-
tive session at 8 o'clock tomorrow