Idiom of Protest in the “New Era”

• Nacionalista party leaders were aware that the kalayaan ideal was very much
alive among the masses.
• La Independencia
- First published in 1906
- To invoke nostalgia for the revolutions in 1896 and 1898.
• The Ilustrado handling of the county’s plight has run counter to the “straight
path” revealed by the Katipunan.
•
• Ilustrado Party Leaders
- Little concerned with the Katipunan spirit and experience.
- Merely riding on the prevailing mood of the times to establish
their political careers.

“Hindi lahat ay natutulog”

-a quotation from Rizal’s writings
-in place of the dark night of the Spanish rule we find metaphor for the
colonial politics of the present

Idiom of Protest: (representation of the words/phrases in the story “Hindi

lahat ay natutulog”)
• Flickering light – fresh memories of the revolution
• Revelation : moment of liwanag in a time of darkness
• Subject of the story : Youth’s passage from darkness to light.
• Pitch darkness – Ignorance and death

“death-shrouded” sky
Moaning of the wind DEATH
barking of dogs
church bells

Panucala – human projects or programs

- respected
- “breath of the soul which should be free”
-should be oriented towards the country’s kalayaan

“false kings”- the country’s leaders

Hari-harian – children’s game involving pretenders or pseudo kings

- play around panucala
- treats politics as a game

Stranger –liwanag, Christ, the country.

- undergoing a pasyon or lakaran

Pasion ng Bayan sa kahapo’t ngay-on

-published in 1934 (eve of Phil. Commonwealth.
- Joaquin Manibo
- connection between the revolution and colonial politics in pasyon terms:
Ang unang “Pasion ng Bayan”
Ay ang nangyaring digmaan
At ang pangalawang tunay
Ang lumikha’y halalan
Hangang nagyo’y umiiral.

“Himagsikang walang humpay/ sa larangan ng halalan “

Nang unang binabangon pa
Ang Lapian na dalawa
Nacionalista’t Democrata
Ang binabandila nila
Kulay ng Independencia
Kahit ang Baga’y lumuha
Sa nagdanaang pagdidigma
Nagalak na at natuwa
Sa discursong malalaya
Ng politicong makata
Sila and iisang Tawo
Dalawa lamang ang bautismo
Ang laya’y balatkayo’t
Ang lihim na tinutungo’y
And libolibong sueldo.

The most prominent politicians of the time:

Quezon

Roxas
Osmena

• They have seduced the massed with the talk of independence while actually
violating the teachings of Rizal and Bonifacio.
• But why have they been in power for so long? Because the masses believed
that they would lead the country to kalayaan.
• Once again we find the familiar theme of “feeding poison instead of feeding
medicine”

Sinong makatataya
Ng madlang potahe nila
Jangang bago’y mahiwaga
Saka natin nala-lasa
Kapag kinakain na.
Kahit lason o mapait
Makalilinkag ng dib-dib
Linolonlon nating pilit
Dahil sa ating nais
Makalaya ang matuwid.

• The cross that the country has to bear is not only that of graft and
corruption but also burdensome taxes, pitiful wages and the general
enslavement of the people.
• Manibo’s Pasion is replete with condemnation of both the political and
religious leaders of his time.
• Manibo’s message is simply that the “politics of Independence”
engaged in by the ilustrados is all deceptive glitter.
• He also prescribes the “way” to be taken: if the people have damay for the
suffering country, if they want true kalayaan, they must help carry the cross
and join Ricarte’s movement.

Ricarte- the only living general of the revolution.

- refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States
- continued, up to the 1930’s, to incite the people to rise up in arms
against the United States.

Sakdal – Ricarte-inspired peasant rebellion.

- anti-American

Simeon Basa – Attempted to organize a Katipunan in Zambales

Atolio tolentino – “army of independence in Tarlac

• Shortly after Manibo’s Pasion was published, a ricarte-inspired rebellion called

SAKDAL swept central and southern Luzon.
• In rural areas, various katipunans continued to offer an alternative to the
ilustrado “way” to kalayaan:
o Simeon basa- a draftsman who had come under the influence of
Ricarte
o Tolentino, a cook in Manila boarding house

The Pasyon of Felipe Salvador

Santa Iglesia -a religiopolitical movement

- Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac and Pampanga

Mount Arayat –center of Central Luzon

- base area of Santa Iglesia
- highest mountain on Earth
- “power” of certain relics of Noah’s Ark

(According to a legend about Mt. Makiling and Mt. Arayat)

Sinukuan – “to whom one has surrendered”
- Marya – beautiful and rich maiden
Tikbalang – King of San Mateo mountains
- brother of Marya of Mount Makiling

• In the people’s mind, there is a connection that exists between the various
sacred mountains in central and southern Luzon.
• And a present day belief that a tunnel connects the mountains of Banahaw,
Makiling and Arayat.

Felipe Salvador
-religious
- pope of Santa Iglesia
- Baliwag, Bulacan
-Born on May 26, 1870

Gabinista
- confradia-type society
- Gabino Cortes
-”man of very small fortune”

• Gabinista was changed to Santa Iglesia (1894)

Guillermo Gonzales
- ex-soldier of the colonial army
- joined the Santa Iglesia in June 1897

Social Conflict in the Republic

“Narrative of the Feelings and Supplications of the Accused Major Felipe

Salvador”
• Major Maximo Hizon – ordered to kill 5 members of Santa Iglesia
• Salvador’s followers were shown documents - land titles- then forcibly
ejected from their ancestral lands without compensation.
• Any man found to have joined the Santa Iglesia was arrested, flogged and
even imprisoned.
• Wives and female relatives of the soldiers were forced to walk through the
center of the town while shouting “don’t be like us!”
• General Mascardo – used to have compassion (lingap) for Salvador
• “damay” – condition of true brotherhood
• - brought Salvador and the peasantry together
• To salvador the actions of mascardo were not the products of evil intentions
but the predictable effects of having been seduced by the “glitter” of wealth
and education.
•
• Puhunan – set of favors or gratuitous acts that indicates a debt relationship
•
• In the pasyon, it is damay that binds people to Christ, whose words being
knowledge and ginhawa (contentment), and the brotherhood of the “meek”
that will triumph.
• For his lowliness and humility, Salvador could have been no other than a
figure of Christ.