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History of the Philippine Press

contributed to it anonymously. Notably Evaristo F. Arias,
who wrote political articles under the name of Juan Caro,
which were answered in the Diario de Manila by Don Romero Salas." Now the editor of El Mercantil.
La Voz Espafiola suspended publication in 1899 after
American occupation, for lack of support.
From 1888 to 1896 there was a veritable epidemic of
newspapers due to the less rigid censorship and the development of a spirit of democratic liberalism and nationalism.
September 1888 the Revista Popular de Filipinas, a religious weekly, appeared with the announcement that it was
"licensed by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities," and in
June the Revista Catolico, a bilingual weekly, announcing
that it was devoted to Catholic propaganda was started. It
was later semi-monthly. Both were discontinued during the
insurrection in 1896.
In February 1889 a morning daily, called La Correspondencia de Manila, was established and sold on the streets at
two centavos. It lasted three months. El Anunciador Ilongo was started in Iloilo in March 1888, but it didn't go far.
The Manila Chamber of Commerce began publishing an official organ, monthly, called the Boletin de la Camara de
Comercio de Manila, in 1889 and continued to about the date
of American occupation, when the chamber was dissolved.
The Gaceta Notarial also made its bow to the public in
May 1889 and apparently continued until the insurrection
in 1896. El Ilocano, a semi-monthly in Spanish and Ilocano,
was established by Isabelo de los Reyes in June 1889. This is
credited by Retana with being the first purely native paper.
"Reyes defended the rights of the Ilocanos and the natives
in general and opposed the Friars. The torturing of the latter in Ilocos during the insurrection may possibly have been
due to the feeling aroused against them by El Ilocano. It
ceased publication during the insurrection."
La Alhambra, semi-monthly, review of arts, sciences
and social interests, was founded July 3, 1889, by Jose Moreno de Lacalle, a wealthy and well known Spanish lawyer.
It died for want of support June 30, 1890. An agricultural
review, called Anales de Agricultura, appeared for the first
time July 27, 1889. Only a few numbers were published.
La Caneco, a humerous illustrated weekly came out for
the first time June 21, 1890. El Papelito, later called El
Papelito Mercantil, also was established the same month.
Neither lived long.