What were Rizal’s views on the impending revolution?
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Based on the excerpt of Pio Valenzuela’s visit to Jose Rizal in Dapitan, What were Rizal’s views on the impending revolution?
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Transcribed Image Text:4. Effect the separation of the Philippines from Spain by force of arms, the only way to secure
the independence of the Philippines under the protection and help of Japan;
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Instruction: Read the excerpts from the Memoirs of Pio Valenzuela on his Conference
with Rizal in Dapitan, then answer the questions that follows.
5. Submit these resolutions for the approval of Dr. Rizal, for which purpose Dr. Pio Valenzuela is
named to go to Dapitan in order to inform Dr. Rizal of these resolutions and to wait for his answer;
With a roundtrip first class ticket which cost me P60, and under the assumed name of Procopio
Bonifacio, I embarked on the steamship Venus on Monday, June 15, 1896, between 10 and 11
o'clock in the morning, accompanied by Raymundo Mata, a blind man, and Rufino Magos, both
residents of Barrio Binakayan, Kawit, Cavite, who were deck passengers. On the boat as first
class passengers were three women-Josephine Bracken, Narcisa Rizal, and Angelica Lopez-
6. In the event that the rich Filipinos refuse to cooperate in this great enterprise, each member
of the Katipunan will contribute weekly all that he can possibly contribute.
RIZAL.-So, the seed grows. The resolutions of the association are very just, patriotic, and above
all, timely because now Spain is weakened by the revolution in Cuba. I approve these resolutions
and I suggest that they be complied with as early as possible in order to take advantage of
opportunity.
who were common-law wife, sister, and niece, respectively of Dr. Rizal.
The Venus called at Romblon, Capiz, lloilo, Cebu, Dumaguete, Dapitan and Sindangan.
VALENZUELA.-But I believe that the revolution will break out prematurely, even without having
Wearrived at Dapitan between 5 and 6 on the afternoon of June 21. The Venus dropped anchor
in Dapitan Bay at a spot about 100 meters from the quay and 500 meters from the house of Dr.
Rizal.
arms.
RIZAL.-This I do not approve. A revolution without arms should never be started against an
armed nation. Its consequences will be fatal and disastrous to the country. The Filipinos will
...After supper I expressed to the hero my desire to talk to him in private about a most interesting
affair, and told him that the treatment of the blind man was only secondary to the purpose of my
visit to Dapitan. We went to his hospital, where we left my two companions, and from there we
proceeded to a place between his house and the hospital, which was situated about fifty meters
from the house. We sat on a bench and a dialogue, more or less like the following, passed
between us:
necessarily have to lose owing to lack of arms.
The Spaniards, once conquerors, will annihilate the Filipinos who show love 'for their country,
employ all obstacles to prevent the intellectual, moral, and material progress of the conquered
people, who sooner or later will have to start another revolution. Cuba, which coun ts with the help
and protection of the United States, having failed in her first struggle, paid dearly in the second,
and is paying as much in this third struggle now. The Philippines does not reckon yet with the help
of Japan. I hope she helps us, because it will be difficult to stage a second revolution after the first
fails.When I was in Japan, a Japanese Minister put at my disposal three merchant ships with
which to transport arms to the Philippines. I wrote to a rich Filipino 1 in Manila, asking him to lend
me P200,000 for the purpose of buying firearms and munitions, but the rich Filipino refused me
the loan. I returned to my native land so that I could unite myself with my brother Filipinos. Being
united, we could manage to procure all that is necessa ry for our emancipation. I see that all of
this is now being done by the Katipunan, and all of us should sustain, and work for the realization
of the resolutions made in Pasig.
VALENZUELA.-There exists in Manila an association called Katipunan founded on the night of
July 7, 1892, as a result of your arrest on the morning of that date. The object of the association
is to seek the separation of the Philippines from Spain through violent means. In a general
assembly which took place in Pasig on the 1st of last May, in which the principal chiefs of the
association were present, the following resolutions, among others, were passed:
1. Attract to the Katipunan the educated and rich Filipinos;
2. Collect funds for the purpose of buying arms and everything necessary for the revolution;
3. Send-a commission of educated Filipinos to Japan, which will take charge of buying arms and
munitions and soliciting the help and protection of the Japanese government in behalf of the
Filipino revolutionists ;
VALENZUELA.-May I know who is this rich Filipino who refused to lend you the money so
necessary for the health of our country?
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