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    The Philippines A Century Hence
    The Philippines A Century Hence
    The Philippines A Century Hence
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    The Philippines A Century Hence

    By Charles E. Derbyshire, Austin Craig and Jose Rizal

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Philippines A Century Hence - Charles E. Derbyshire

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Philippines A Century Hence, by Jose Rizal

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      Title: The Philippines A Century Hence

      Author: Jose Rizal

      Editor: Austin Craig

      Translator: Charles Derbyshire

      Release Date: April 18, 2011 [EBook #35899]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE ***

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      From Mi Piden Versos (1882),

      verses from Madrid for his mother.

      The Philippines

      A Century Hence

      In the Philippine Islands the American government has tried, and is trying, to carry out exactly what the greatest genius and most revered patriot ever known in the Philippines, José Rizal, steadfastly advocated.

      —From a public address at Fargo, N.D., on April 7th. 1903, by the President of the United States.

      A sketch map, by Dr. Rizal, of spheres of influence in the Pacific at the time of writing The Philippines A Century Hence, as they appeared to him.

      Most of the French names will be easily recognized, though it may be noted that Etats Unis is our own United States, L’Angleterre England,

      and L’Espagne Spain.

      Noli Me Tangere Quarter-Centennial Series

      Edited by Austin Craig

      The Philippines

      A Century Hence

      By José Rizal

      Manila: 1912

      Philippine Education Company

      34 Escolta

      Copyright 1912

      By Austin Craig

      Registered in the Philippine Islands.

      Introduction

      As Filipinas dentro de Cien Años, this article was originally published serially in the Filipino fortnightly review La Solidaridad, of Madrid, running through the issues from September, 1889, to January, 1890.

      It supplements Rizal’s great novel Noli Me Tangere and its sequel El Filibusterismo, and the translation here given is fortunately by Mr. Charles Derbyshire who in his The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed has so happily rendered into English those masterpieces of Rizal.

      The reference which Doctor Rizal makes to President Harrison had in mind the grandson-of-his-grandfather’s blundering, wavering policy that, because of a groundless fear of infringing the natives’ natural rights, put his country in the false light of wanting to share in Samoa’s exploitation, taking the leonine portion, too, along with Germany and England.

      Robert Louis Stevenson has told the story of the unhappy condition created by that disastrous international agreement which was achieved by the dissembling diplomats of greedy Europe flattering unsophisticated America into believing that two monarchies preponderating in an alliance with a republic would be fairer than the republic acting unhampered.

      In its day the scheme was acclaimed by irrational idealists as a triumph of American abnegation and an example of modern altruism. It resulted that the international agreement became a constant cause of international disagreements, as any student of history could have foretold, until, disgusted and disillusioned, the United States tardily recalled Washington’s warning against entanglements with foreign powers and became a party to a real partition, but this time playing the lamb’s part. England was compensated with concessions in other parts of the world, the United States was given what it already held under a cession twenty-seven years old,—and Germany took the rest as her emperor had planned from the start.

      There is this Philippine bearing to the incident that the same stripe of unpractical philanthropists, not discouraged at having forced the Samoans under the ungentle German rule—for their victims and not themselves suffer by their mistakes, are seeking now the neutralization by international agreement of the Archipelago for which Rizal gave his life. Their success would mean another entangling alliance for the United States, with six allies, or nine including Holland, China and Spain, if the great republic should be allowed by the diplomats of the Great Powers to invite these nonentities in world politics, with whom she would still be outvoted.

      Rizal’s reference to America as a possible factor in the Philippines’ future is based upon the prediction of the German traveller Feodor Jagor, who about 1860 spent a number of months in the Islands and later published his observations, supplemented by ten years of further study in European libraries and museums, as Travels in the Philippines, to use the title of the English translation,—a very poor one, by the way. Rizal read the much better Spanish version while a student in the Ateneo de Manila, from a copy supplied by Paciano Rizal Mercado who directed his younger brother’s political education and transferred to José the hopes which had been blighted for himself by the execution of his beloved teacher, Father Burgos, in the Cavite alleged insurrection.

      Jagor’s prophecy furnishes the explanation to Rizal’s public life. His policy of preparing his countrymen for industrial and commercial competition seems to have had its inspiration in this reading done when he was a youth in years but mature in fact through close contact with tragic public events as well as with sensational private sorrows.

      When in Berlin, Doctor Rizal met Professor Jagor, and the distinguished geographer and his youthful but brilliant admirer became fast friends, often discussing how the progress of events was bringing true the fortune for the Philippines which the knowledge of its

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