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Catholic Friars and Land Monopoly in the Philippines

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 10.

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Catholic Friars and Land Monopoly in the Philippines

It is found that in the Philippines the Catholic friars, or religious orders,—Franciscan, Dominican, etc.,—hold four hundred and six thousand acres of the land. This has been obtained by oppression and robbery of the people. And thousands upon thousands of the people are still oppressed and robbed by these land monopolists. It is from just such a thing as this that France is now trying to free herself. Will the United States keep free from it, or will she support it, in the Philippines? The pope insists that the religious orders are essentially of the Church.