# A relic of colonial rule

Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, 2014-02-24

- Address: https://cmfr-phil.org/inmediasres/luis-teodoro/a-relic-of-colonial-times-2/
- Kind: reference
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [Philippines: United States colonial government's libel law is used to close the newspaper El Renacimiento](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1901-philippines-us-colonial-libel-act-el-renacimiento)
- [Claim 970: The Philippine Commission enacted Act No. 277, a law criminalizing libel, which was later used against the nationalist press.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/970)
- [Claim 971: Governor-General William Howard Taft justified the libel law's passage by saying Filipinos were a strange people unused to the freedom of the press.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/971)
- [Claim 972: El Renacimiento's 1908 editorial described colonial officials as birds of prey, comparing them to eagles, vultures, owls and vampires.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/972)
- [Claim 973: Secretary of the Interior Dean C. Worcester filed the libel suit that led to the conviction of El Renacimiento's editor Fidel Reyes, co-editor Teodoro M. Kalaw and publisher Martin Ocampo.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/973)
- [Claim 974: Kalaw and Ocampo's appeals to the Philippine Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court failed, and their conviction was affirmed in both courts.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/974)
- [Claim 975: Ocampo's 100,000 peso fine crippled El Renacimiento and its sister paper Muling Pagsilang, and both stopped publishing.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/975)
- [Claim 976: Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison pardoned Ocampo in 1914, after the fine had already closed the paper.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/976)

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