History of Philippine press / Carson Taylor.

Historu of the Philippine,Press

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The plant was moved to Malolos about the time, or possibly before the outbreak of the insurrection. Later it was
moved from place to place along the Manila railroad until
it was finally captured by the American forces in one of the
northern provinces.
La Republica Filipina, was established at Mandaloyon
September 15, 1898. It represented the revolutionary faction directed by Pedro A. Paterno, who became a member
of Aguinaldo's cabinet.
While not so influential or so widely circulated as La
Independencia, La Republica Filipina, nevertheless, played
an important part in the campaign of independence propaganda.
Aside from advocating independence its policy is indicated by the following translated from the editorial announcement of the first number: "The basis of society is
respect for the law. Obedience to established law should
be practised in all parts and by every individual. Our ideal
may be reduced to this simple formulae: Liberty and
responsibility and serving as a guarantee of these liberties,
a free people and a strict government. All rights should be
acknowledged and protected by the government and all existing laws should be obeyed by the people."
La Republica Filipina was forced by the advance of the
American troops to change its location and was discontinued
soon after the insurrection started. Another Filipino
paper was started at Jaro, a suburb of Iloilo, December 18,
1898, under the name of La Revolucion. It was published
weekly. Its slogan as announced was "Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity." Its circulation was entirely local and very
limited. El Heraldo de la Revolucion was published somewhere in northern Luzon for a very short period in the latter part of 1898.
Aglipay, now the head of the so-called "Independent
Filipino Catholic church," was one of the editors and possibly the publisher.
El Catolico Filipino was founded as a daily early in
December 1898 by Mariano Sevilla, a Tagalog. Its policy
was for "religious unity."
In those hectic times the limited FilipinQ reading public
wanted something more exciting and the new daily failed to
secure a following.
The record was broken in 1899 for the birth of newspapers, with a total of 24, and possibly some others which
are not recorded.