New York Times, June 15, 1900. A far from incredible theory as to the authorship of the seditious leaflets recently distributed among the native population of Manila, is suggested by certain passages in a long article printed by the New Orleans Picayune. Most of the article is devoted to an enthusiastic description of the energy and success with which Archbishop Chapelle is performing the duties of apostolic delegate to the islands; but incidentally the writer partly quotes and partly paraphrases a sermon recently delivered in the Dominican monastery by Archbishop Nozaleda, the eminent prelate who, just before Admiral Dewey reached Manila, issued a proclamation applying to Americans all the denunciatory adjectives contained in a particularly large vocabulary, and assuring the defenders of the city that they would find the destruction of the approaching fleet a task as easy as it would be holy. Since then Archbishop Nozaleda has probably changed his mind about the fighting ability of American sailors, but he apparently retains all his old ideas in regard to American morals and ambitions. At any rate, in the sermon mentioned he bitterly lamented the political changes going on in the Philippine capital, and declared that the religious orders had been made the objects of a silent but stubborn war by those who are bringing the changes to pass. In urging the perpetuation of ecclesiastical institutions, educational and other, he said that there was never a time when they were more needed “to check the progress of an impious crusade which has been begun with alarming vigor against the Catholic Church,” and at great length expatiated on the wickedness of yielding in the slightest degree to the new and abhorrent influences which the change of rule had brought upon the islands. It was all quite in harmony with the sentiments and advice contained in the anonymous leaflets, and Archbishop Chapelle, who was present, and who is an American of the present day, must have listened with emotions strangely complex.