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VOLCANO MARSHALL GOES TO
JAIL CHARGED WITH SEDITION
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| AN FRANCISCO. April 15.-There
U is no doubt but that Volcano
- Marshall viii soon be as well
| Hawaii According to the latest adj
vices he is now in jail in Manila,
charged with treason. Marshall has
been hitting away at the officials and
judiciary of Manila, and his methods
are objected to by these people. The
dispatches from Manila tell of the ar
rest of the editors of the Volcano, but
do not mention any names.
The reason of this is that the dis
patches are censored by the United
States Government. and that permis-
sion was refused to send names as the
publication OF these in the United
States might stir up unnecessary SYM
pathy for the incarcerated editors.
The San Francisco Chronicle. how
ever. gives Marshall full credit for his
arrest, and follows the dispatch from
Manila printed in the Chronicle. with a
local statement of MarshalPs identity,
as follows:
MANILA, April 1O.-Excitement pre-
walls here on account of the arrest of
the editor and proprietor of Freedom. n
local publication. who is charged with
sedition in publishing recently an ar
ticle from an American periodical to
which the editor of Freedom agreed. He |
also added remarks of his own, censur- |
ing the United States Commissions |
rule. and saying that when it started |
in July last every paper in the city up |
held it. since which they had all |
dropped by the wayside, as they would !
not support arbitrary government, 'es- /
pecially when evidences of carpet-bag-l
ging and rumors of graft We're too !
thick to be pleasant
The main charges made are that in
many cases the Filipino Office holders
are rascals and that the Commission
has exalted to the highest positions
Filipinos who are VIGOROUSLY corrupt.
THE editors of the Volcano also have
been arrested on a suit of the Govern
ment for demanding the removal of the
Judge who recently tried Senior VAL
DEE the editor of a local Spanish paper,
who was fined 1000 pesetas for libeling
two Filipino members of the Commits
sion). and who IS now trying the editor
IF Freedom under the sedition law.
THESE proceed lngS have aroused the
entire press of Manila and its repre-
sentatives met today and resolved to
send committee to the Commissioners
% argue against the injustice of the
The meeting also deter
mined to send cable message to Pres
dent Roosevelt, urging him to take
teps to prevent tne Commission from
Using the sedition law in such cases. to
rove lese majestic against editors The
Meeting. which was enthusiastic. was
lso largely attended by lawyers, doc
ors and others.
William H. Marshall the principal
Gitor of the Manila Volcano, is known {
California as an erratic but
rilliant editor. He was for a number
( years the editorial writer of the Sac
Bee. and has occupied similar
ositions in many California towns. He
-ent TO the Philippines a few months
go from Honolulu. where he had been G
resident for nearly three years. Par, 7
T this time he spent in jail for libeling 1
be Chief Justice of the Republic of a
laval. i
"Marshalrs case is famous in the an
ais of Jurisprudence. as in il the ques {
on was first raised in the annexed ter
tory whether the Constitution of the
'nited States followed the flag. Mar a
halls lawyers contended that it dif.. y