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Freedom of the Press in the Philippines

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 11.

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Freedom of the Press in the Philippines

AN American editor has been deported from the Philippines. It is said that there is not a state of war there. Then what ground could there be for this abolition of “the freedom of the press” guaranteed by the Constitution? Ah! that need not be asked; because “the Constitution is not of force” in that part of the jurisdiction of the United States. And how long will it be of force in any other part of her jurisdiction?