Aims of the newspaper:

1. To fight reactions
2. To stop all efforts to keep Philippines a
backward country
3. To extol liberal ideas
4. To defend progress



Wenceslao E. Retana, an anti-Filipino
- He called the Philippines a piece of the
palpitating heart of Spain.
Demands of the Filipino Reformists:
1. Representation of the Spanish Cortes
2. The Right to vote
3. Freedom of Speech
4. Freedom of Commerce
5. The removal of the Friars
6. Reforms in the jails
7. Education of the People
8. Abolition of the Diezmos