The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
FILIPINO SCORES
LYING ARTICLES
IN BOSS PAPERS
Like Most 'IntelIectuaIs'
He Is Rather Tame
BY H. o. WATT.
Especial to The Daily Worker)


Several articles published in the
Washington Post, and syndicated thru
ont the country. have aroused the ire
Of The Philippine people. At meet
ing held tonight by the league Of in
dustrial democracy, Vicente Bunuan,
press representative Of the Philippine
government, in this country, spoke in
refutation Of the published state
ments
Bunuan, who is good speaker, put
his audience in coed humor, by pre-
ceding HIS address with the remark
that Laurence Todd, who acted as
chairman, had Just informed him that
the members Of the organization he
was about to address are intellectual
liberals" The speaker called atten-
tion to the fact that the writer of the
articles in question had found nothing
IN the islands favorable to the Fill
Dino people; not single instance of
human feeling or decency.
U. s. Degeneraey.
The unfairness Of this attitude was
obvious. Bunuan explained that if he
wished to be unfair to America he
hight take isolated instances Of de-
generacy in this country and 60 back
to the Philippines and base SANDER
GUS articles on there isolated cases.
1t was an easy matter for the speak
er to refute the charges contained in
the offending articles.
Facts and figures give the lie to the
whole mass Of vituperation and the
speaker confined himself to such facts
and figures. The articles are obvious
ly propaganda in the interest Of those
interests which are fighting against
independence for the Philippine peo-
pie. Instead Of the decay and deteri-
grafton" found by Katherine Mayo.
the speaker showed that remarkable
progress has beencmade in the islands.
especially during the time in which
they were granted some degree Of To-
cal autonomy by the Wilson admins
tration in this country. $50
Bunuan Non-Commital.
At the conclusion OF humans talk
an effort was made by members of
the audience to draw from him his
opinion as to the motive behind the
publication Of the newspaper stories.
He was asked If he thought that the
author was employed by the sugar
rust to do its dirty work. Bunuan
would not commit himself specifically
but said that he had a suspicion as
20 why the propaganda was institut-
ed. He stated that the articles are Of
magazine style and that there is moth
ing new in them. Such articles are
usually printed on the "home" page of
newspapers, but in this instance they
cover nearly the entire first page. He
stated that the author has been back
in this country for three months but
the articles did not appear until the
first week Of congress.
fs Must Be More Militant.
1t seems to the writer that the Fill
pinos might make more progress in
their fight for liberty If they should
adopt more militant attitude toward
their oppressors. Nowhere in his
tory have subject peoples obtained
freedom except by fighting for it.
Surely the Filipinos are dissatisfied
with administration of their affairs by
American exploiters; otherwise they
would not be asking for independence.
Still Bunuan, this evening, told his
audience that he has confidence in the
fairness and justice of American,
christian, civilization.
This humble, servile attitude seems
to prevail amongst all of the educated
Filipinos now in this country and
gives rise to the impression that there
are several kept" newspapers in the
islands, and that these publications
are educating" the populace into
paths of humility, much as is done in
this country. Perhaps if little mass
action in the shape of general strikes
and other demonstrations were in
dulged in, more might be accomplish
ed than by the eternal passing of reso-
lutions.
C,,keorst,a Cor nXO,tr natl,, ~