THE ALIENS IN OUR

MIDST Presented by: Jelo Herrera

 I am rich and generous, ask
of me what you will but
don’t shut your doors to me

-Spaniard

Look in the book of

history. Do not forget the
victims of the friars’
habit.
-Juan

FRIAR DECEIT
The cartoon shows a Spanish
Dominican friar holding Nuestra
Señora del Rosario, a Jesuit with
another image, and Gregorio
Aglipay who advocates the image
Nuestra Señora de la Paz (Virgin of
Antipolo)
October 5, 1907 when Nuestro Señora
del Rosario was crowned patron saint
 LIBERTAS – An anti-
Filipino organ and a
Spanish language
newspaper published by the
Dominican friars.

EL RENACIMIENTO –
Nationalist newspaper and
it is the chief organ of the
Filipino people.

The Soldiers of Libertas

 Suffrage was still restricted
and the parties are badly
financed, so the Spanish
religious orders were able to
use their wealth to influence
the outcome.

EL MERCANTIL – A
reference to the power
of the friar-owned
newspaper and the
funding the friars
Spanish Religious Interference provided loyal Catholic
candidates.
 EUSEBIO ORENSE –
Served the revolution and
was elected to the
assembly from Batangas
as Nacionalista. Had
strong ties to the Church
and rewarded with the title
Foetus of the Provincial
Council of the Religious
Orders.

After the Demonstration

 Where is the Ship Going?

The cartoon shows the

Catholic Church in a ship
headed onto the rocks and
two rivalry groups watching
from the shore: The
Philippine Independent
Church (Left) and Spanish
friars (right).

PIC – Headed by Antonio Regidor and SF – If the secular churchmen sink, they
Gregorio Aglipay. Suffered major reverses may recover their former influence
from court decisions and was forced to
return parishes and lands to the Catholic
Church.
Voyage to Heaven

The cartoon shows the vast

wealth of the Spanish religious
orders, and taken a vow of
poverty, but the orders have
accumulated a wealth that was
both attracting attention and
large in number.
 The cartoon shows the
economically disenfranchised
Filipino laborers, and was
identified as hard-working bees
while the Spanish Friars was
identified as fat drones

“PAWIS NG LOKO, TABA NG

TUSO”
-Reverendo Kataba (SF)

Bees and Drones

 Evading their Taxes

The cartoon refers to the intense

Church opposition to taxes on
its properties.

October 1907, the Manila

Municipal Board and Advisory
Board proposed a tax on all
Church real estate.

Felix Roxas – The mayor and Miguel Velasco - Spanish

the son of one of the first mestizo who had served in
Filipino architects who built the Spanish navy and was
some religious buildings in running for the Manila
Intramuros. Board with friar support.
 The cartoon shows the Nationalist,
Antonio Regidor seconded by
Gregorio Aglipay who wage verbal
warfare with Jose Loyzaga y Ageo
supported by a Spanish friar over
the future of the Philippine Church.

Antonio Ma. Regidor – A

Spanish creole who played a
leading role in the nationalist
Giyera Patani movement for 40 years.
 The cartoon shows Pedro A.
Paterno as he advocates Chinese
immigration for plantation labor
and outrages the crowd of Filipino
farm laborer.
Paterno argued that Filipino
labor was indolent, insufficient,
and unreliable.

Representing… Peking?
 Hallucinogenic Business

The Spanish government had

licensed Chinese dens for half a
century and the cholera epidemic
of 1902 – 1904 introduced large
numbers of Filipino users to the
drug Opium since its constipating
powers were an aid in combatting
the disease.
In 1905, the Commission
declared an immediate ban on
The cartoon shows Chinese Filipino opium use and a three
addicts successfully bribing a year transition to a full
Filipino pharmacist to sell them prohibition for Chinese.
Opium from his medicinal
stocks.
 The cartoon shows the
Manila policemen being
bribed by Chinese addicts
to enter an Opium den.

Pretending Not to See

 The cartoon shows the Manila
Chinese launching a boycott
against the Spanish language
daily El Commercio after it
advocated a ban on Chinese
migration to the Philippines.

Chinese and American

businessmen wanted it lifted to
import cheap plantation labor.

Chinese Reprisals
 The cartoon shows the comment
upon the inauguration of
Hispanic-Philippine friendship
in January 1917.

A mountain of corpses and a river of

blood separate us – Be gone!

Long Live Spain

 The cartoon shows Manila City
Fiscal, Quintin Paredes filed two
criminal libel suits against the
newspaper regarding the
damages of the statement about
the Jesuits.

Masked to conceal their role in the

case, the Jesuits are pitting their
fighting cock, Fiscal Paredes,
against the Filipino people who
have a cock labelled The
Independent.

A Duel to the Death

 The cartoon attacks Manila City
Fiscal, Quintin Paredes because of
pursuing two libel suits against
The Independent and ignoring the
wartime food speculators

The Fiscal’s office is

preoccupied with petty
crimes and has no time to
prosecute the major
speculators

There Are No Prosecuting Attorneys

 The cartoon shows the Senator
of Bohol, Jose A. Clarin
denouncing a friar-sponsored
bill on private education that
would install religious schools in
the towns and barrios.

Shelling the Foggers

 The cartoon shows how the
Progresista party, former
Federalista party, formed an
electoral alliance with
Terceristas and was mocked
because of it. The election turned
out to be a disaster for the
coalition.
How the “Terceristas” Go to Fight
 The cartoon shows that in the
past decade, foreign
merchants, including
Chinese, have grown from
small traders into great
merchants and bankers. On
the other hand, the Filipinos
have remained the same.

While the Chinese Progress

 The cartoon shows that the
Chinese selected influential
Filipino officials and every year
the Chinese are delivering gifts
on the official’s birthday, a
custom that The Independent
considers as indirect bribe.
Question of Time
 The cartoon claims that the
U.S. colonial government’s
ban on Opium sales is not
effective. Chinese avoid the
prohibition by smuggling
Opium through Manila
Customs in drum of cement,
condensed milk, etc.,
something that is almost
impossible to detect.
The Independent suggests
that Opium should be
Why there is Opium legalized as a source of
government revenue.