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No record of any trial of these priests
has ever been brought to light. The Archbishop, himself a secular[5]
clergyman, stoutly refused to degrade them from their holy office,
and they wore their sacerdotal robes at the execution, which was
conducted in a hurried, fearful manner. At the same time a number
of young Manilans who had taken conspicuous part in the "liberal"
demonstrations were deported to the Ladrone Islands or to remote
islands of the Philippine group itself.
This was the beginning of the end. Yet there immediately followed
the delusive calm which ever precedes the fatal outburst, lulling
those marked for destruction to a delusive security. The two decades
following were years of quiet, unobtrusive growth, during which
the Philippine Islands made the greatest economic progress in their
history. But this in itself was preparing the final catastrophe, for
if there be any fact well established in human experience it is that
with economic development the power of organized religion begins to
wane--the rise of the merchant spells the decline of the priest.


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