Evening star., 1924-04-26
FILIPINOS FORCED
INTO LIBERTY FUND
New Scandal Seen in Scheme to
Send Third Parliamentary
Mission to U. S.
LAW FORBIDS COERCION
Yet $4,000, 900 Annual Contribu-
tions Are Exaeted.
law F0RBIDs COERCION
by WALTER j. ROBB.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.


BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1924.
| MANILA, April ga scandal OF
large proportions has developed in
connection with the sending of a
third parliamentary mission to the
| United States to work for the in
| dependence of the Philippines. To
provide a fund for propaganda in this
direction all of the $4,000 civil service
employees have been asked to con-
tribute annually one-fifth of their
| monthly salaries. If all contribute
it is estimated that the fund thus
| raised will amount to about s2,0oo,000
a year. 1t is to be expended under
the supervision of Manuel Quezon.
The assessment scheme was devised
by Quezon's protege, Arsenic y. Luz.
director general of the campaign, and
the organization of the national sub
scription committee" of the legisla-
ture. The contract follows:
Il, John Doe, the undersigned,
pledge contributions and l hereby as
sign corresponding amount of my
salary as an employe in the bureau
follows), who is hereby appointed
by me as my attorney in fact, for
me and in my place and stead to
receive such sum and to receive
d
of salary with mention of the date
on which \. N. Luz may draw the
same from the treasury"
Law Against Political Funds.
From the way in which the con-
tract is arranged it is evident that
the devisers of the scheme planned
to get everything pertaining to the
collections of contributions into their
own control. The Philippine law pro-
hibits compelling the civil employees
to contribute to political funds
The pink sheets bearing the con-
tracts were scattered throughout the
bureaus and placed under the very
noses of the employees at the desks
though some of the chiefs say that
they required that the distribution of
the contracts take place outside the
buildings
White sheets intended to be de-
stroyed as soon as read say, in part:
THE Philippine Independence Com
mission, which is composed of every
elective member of the Philippine
knowing the loyalty of our civil serv-
ice employees to our glorious ideals,
has found it necessary 70 provide for
them an easy method by which they
may contribute one-fifth Of their sal
ary to the glorious cause without in
terference from our enemies.
Promised Salary Increase.
1.-THE elective members of the Phil
ippine Senate and the House of Rep
resentatives. being in possession of
our honor roll, will be in position to
grant an increase of salary equiva-
lent to one-fifth of your present sal
ary and likewise to separate from
among you those enemies of our
glorious ideals who have preferred
to lick the hand of the autocrat i'm
mediately our course has been won.
BLANK forms will be placed in all
the offices of the government and
made accessible to every employe.
Fill out and sign these forms and
send them to the director general of
the campaign and organization. Do
nations should be made from April
1 and continue until the Philippine
Commission of independence shall de-
eide otherwise"