Rome and the Treaty of Paris

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

Rome and the Treaty of Paris

In the Treaty of Paris, which transferred the Philippine Islands and people to the sovereignty of the United States, this nation bound herself, by first allowing herself to be bound, “to observe the standing and rights accorded by custom to the religious corporation in the Philippines.” And now a representative of the Associated Press in the Philippines publishes, in the Independent of August 30, that “according to Archbishop Chapelle, these measures were indirectly introduced into the treaty by Chapelle himself.” Thus in that treaty the United States was bound by Rome to the interests of Rome, forever.