The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-13
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loosened and they fell in heap the floor, where
if they were not killed. they suffered disocations and
fractures Later they dashed the soes OF the
feet on the calves the backsde, the shoulders,
and on the stomach. Their fingers and toes and pro-
Gates a0ere squeezed and mGnged a0lth pncers They
were given electric Shocks They were given to drink
vinegar warm water with salt IN excessive qantl-
ties, that they might vomit whatever they had
eaten and which had not passed through the pylorus
into the small intestine Their feet were placed In the
Stocks and they compelled to lie on the ground
without bad mat, the mosquitoes chlnch-bugs,
heas and other insects sucking their blood, and the
rats at times coming in their mad and biting to
render their sorry and afflicted situation They
given nothing to eat or drink except from one
afternoon to another, the unhappy imprisoned Fill
pnos thus experiencing the fortunes OF hunger and OF
thirst. And after causing them to suffer other hor
rbe fortunes invented by the inquisiton OF omnous
memory, squald, careWorn, extenuated hardly able TO
erect, many taken to the field, aohere they
died by shooting for such the oU Of the rldrs
0ho eVery day asked for bIood-Fdhpino btood-the
blood of those aoho this country stood out by
Of their knowledge, their Urtne, their uprghtmess or
their a0edJth Thou knowest my Cod that in 1872 the
Filipino fathers Don Mariana Gomez Don Jose Bur
gos and Don Jacinto Zamora, died the scaffod
they opposed the frars usurping the curaces
of the priests in the end they did usurp them be-
the frars almost omnpotent at that time,
and there was no human power to arrest their will
Neither ignorant my God, that in 1897 there
shot to death the field of Bagumbayan the
Filipino priests, Don Severino Diaz, Don Gabriel
Prieto, and Don Inocenco Herrera, because the two
ciscan friar, collecting parochal fees belonging
to the said Father Daz curate of the Cathedral of
Nueva Caceres. Thou also knowest, my God and my
Lord, that Notwithstanding that Dr. Don Jose Rizal
the unfortunate, Macaro Vallentin, and innumerable
other Filipnos wholly innocent, they also
clmbed the field of Bagumbayan shot to DEATH
Neither is it unknown to Thee, my God, that multi
tude of Flpnos have remained marked forever as the
result of blows aud cruel treatment they have
ceived among them General Lucban who has rib
sprung, and will probably carry it through life. In
spe, Lord the american authorities lClth the idea OF
making an examination and excavations IN the Monds
terry of Santa Clara of Manila, for about fifteen gears
ago a cent upon the roof of the said
monastery and there loudly begged for hetp-G scan
daIous fact 1chch many Mandates not but recall
Expel Lord, expel from the Philippines the friars, be
fore there is powdered glass in the rice>we eat and
poison in the water drink, and before Dr. Manuel
Jerez Burgos, to whom anonymous misslve was adj
dressed saying: 'Lara died today thou shalt die to-
aorrolo shall be assassinated Take Lord take from
sight the habits of the friars which recall to us
days of mourning and affection, days of prisons de-
portations tortures and executions of beings who are
dear to U.S. whose unhappy end still draws tears from
eyes and fills hearts with anguish. Do more
yet ma Lord and God, dissoIre dnnlhitdte, destroy
laacs constitute aooe system aOhich produces and
necessarily must produce, hypocridcGt per0erse
c0uetouS and cruel OppreSSors OF humanity as IS eU
denced By history and recently by the present in
China occasioned by the abuses arbtrarines and ex
cesses of the riars We supplicate and pray Thee my
God that Thou cast out from the Philippines forever
the friars that again attempting to take posses
sion of the curaces of the Philippines, to treat
anew priests though they their servants.
AMEN"
(How can you reconcile Mr. Taft's Balti-
more eulogy on Catholic mission work in the
Philippines, with his knowledge of the condi-
tons revealed in this maddened prayerO