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Five years older than Bishop Dougherty, Aglipay was a shock-headed Filipino who had entered the Catholic Church because the priesthood seemed to offer material advancement, had organized a band of volunteers after the Spanish War, fought the U. S. under Rebel Aguinaldo. Battening on Philippine hatred of the Spanish, and of the landowning, predominantly Spanish clergy which the Vatican had sent to the Islands, Aglipay founded an Independent Philippine Church, with himself as Obispo Maximo or head bishop. When Bishop Dougherty arrived, Bishop Aglipay claimed to have won over most of the Philippines' 7,000,000 Catholics...
...Aglipayan priest, this sturdy son of Patrick and Bridget Dougherty girded for action. He gathered a band of loyal Catholics, braved a shower of stones to wrest the cathedral from the Aglipayan. Arming his flock he toured his diocese reopening and reconsecrating churches, confirming as many as 70,000 Filipino children at a time, spending weeks on horseback and at times paddling his own canoe through the jungle. He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot. With his own strong arms he dug the grave of a fellow bishop he found dead of cholera...
...Sultan's grand vizier and the majority of the chiefs or datus of Sululand wanted no truck with a female ruler or the strutting little Filipinos. A month after the Sultan's death, they met and elected his brother Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram to the throne. But that did not settle the matter. The Philippine Government refused to recognize him, thereby saving itself a pension. The North Borneo Company withheld its land rent until the succession should be clarified. A Filipino judge appointed Dayang Dayang administrator of the dead Sultan's estate. Afraid of being poisoned...
Peace in the Archipelago hung in the balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky...
...preferential hiring issue, 3,500 packers and trimmers walked out of the lettuce sheds. In the fields some 2,500 nonunionized Mexican and Filipino "stoop laborers" had to suspend operations also. In the autumn 95% of the nation's lettuce comes from Salinas. By last week, with both sides still in disagreement and the crop waiting in fields and sheds for shipment, this $11,000,000 agricultural industry seemed thoroughly paralyzed. A Growers-Shippers' Association official estimated that the strike was losing his friends and their idle employes...