The democratic movement in Asia . has nowlargely lost its vitality, its history illustrates aspirit which is more or less characteristic of theentire East. It will be recalled that the American occupa-tion of the Philippines came at a time of internalrevolution. For more than two years the Filipinoshad been in rebellion against Spain. This move-ment had been religious as well as economicand political. The Filipinos felt that the Spanishfriars had taken sides against the people andhad become oppressors rather than spiritualguides. Aglipay had been trained for the priest-hood and had held severa
The democratic movement in Asia . has nowlargely lost its vitality, its history illustrates aspirit which is more or less characteristic of theentire East. It will be recalled that the American occupa-tion of the Philippines came at a time of internalrevolution. For more than two years the Filipinoshad been in rebellion against Spain. This move-ment had been religious as well as economicand political. The Filipinos felt that the Spanishfriars had taken sides against the people andhad become oppressors rather than spiritualguides. Aglipay had been trained for the priest-hood and had held several important positionsin the Roman Catholic Church before the revolu-tion came. Eventually he cast in his lot withthe rebels and after the American occupationjoined the insurrectos. He gathered two scoreor more of spirits as untamed as himself, andbecame a very effectual thorn in the side of theGovernment for months. His band of outlawsled the United States troops many an excitingchase into the hills before it was scattered. [190]. ARCHBISHOP AGLIPAY, OF THEINDEPENDENT FILIPINO CATHOLICCHURCH, WAS FORMERLY AN OFFI-CER IN THE INSURRECTO ARMYAND GAVE THE AMERICAN TROOPSA GREAT DEAL OF HIS PATRIOTIC IMPULSESWERE DIVERTED TO THE LEADER-SHIP OF A FILIPINO CHURCH EX-CLUSIVELY UNDER NATIVE CONTROL. NATIONALISM AND CHURCH UNITY The insurrection having been abandoned, Agli-pay joined hands with a most enterprising pressagent by the name of Prousch and lifted thestandard of rebellion against the friars. Prouschhad drifted into the Islands by way of India,where he had developed a most uncompromisingantipathy to the Roman Catholic Church, dab-bled in missionary work, and polished off anamazing vocabulary of American slang. Prouschbacked Aglipay to be a second Martin Lutherand placed his diversified talents entirely at theinsurrecto-priests disposal. As press agent (Ihave the story from his own lips) he made a tourof the provincial towns, telling of the exploitsof his patron, a
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