FILIPINO GRIEVANCES

AGAINST GOVERNOR
WOOD
PREPARED BY:
MICON CAMINGAWAN
ARLENE GICOS
CHRISTINE MANANSALA
RONIE SAGUISABAL
Gregorio Zayde

Education:
Studied in the University of the Philippines
(M.A. 1931) and University of Santo Tomas
(B.A. and PhD of Philosophy, 1934)

Background of the Author:

Filipino Historian, Author, Politician from town
Of Pagsagjan, Laguna
Born: May 25, 1907
Died: October 31, 1988
Contribution to the Grand Scheme of Philippine History
Filipino Grievances Against Governor Wood

The document as a form of protest ( Zayde write

for the constitutional representative of the Filipino
people). The document served as an impeachment
request for Governor Wood

The document was approved by the

Commission on independence on November 17, 1926
(Appointed on October 14, 1921 to August 7, 1927) A
year after this document was approved Governor
Leonard Wood died due to surgery failure
 He was also one of the founders
International Association of Historians
of Asia (IAHA) and president of the
Philippine Historical Association for a 3
terms. As a politician, he served as
mayor of his hometown of Pagsagjan
1971 to 1975
Major-General Leonard
Wood arrived at the
Philippine Island in
1903 after his service
in Cuba. He was
appointed as a governor
in Mero Province,
comprising the southern
islands and Mindanao
Aside from being the head of the civil
government , he is also responsible
for five districts, and the commanding
general of the troops in the
department of Mindanao and Sulu as
well.
General Wood was asked what he thinks
would happen if he left
Hi response was "Strife, disorder,
bloodshed. They might not come instantly,
but they would come soon. Moros whom we
have disarmed and who wants us to stay
and protect them, and Christian Filipinos
would fight. Industry, trade and credit
would be ruined, with inevitable
concomitants of idleness, hunger and
anarchy.
 American Flag
"Emblem of Freedom"
"Symbol of Altruism"
 Philippines and America

•Promised the our country would be

conserved and developed for the
benefit of the people

•Filipinos were patient and diligent to

the task of meetingothe condition
given to them because they TRUST in
the Americans.
Calvin Coolidge

○ the President of the

USA Advised Congress
of America to fulfill
their promise since
the goal has been reached
(loyalty from Philippines )
○ Major-General Leonard
Wood was sent to Philippines
as Governor-General.
 Expectation

Cognizant of General Wood's

participation in the liberation of Cuba,
Filipinos expected that spirit in
cooperation would be maintained.

Political emancipation would be

complete.
 Reality

There was a train of usurpation

and arbitrary acts
Result in curtailment of our
autonomy & destruction to our
constitutional system Reversal of
America's Philippine policy.
ARBITRARY ACTS
1. He has refused his assent to laws which
were the most wholesome & necessary
heads of department.

2. He has set at naught both the legal

authority and responsibility for the
Philippine heads of department.

3. He has substituted his constitutional

advisers for a group of military attaches
without legal standing in the government
and not responsible to the people.
4. He has reversed the policy of Filipinizing
the service of the government by
appointing Americans even when Filipino of
proven capacity were available.

5. He has obstructed the carrying out of

national economic policies duty adopted by
the Legislature, merely because they are in
conflict with his personal views.
6. He has rendered merely perfunctory the
power of the Legislature to pass the annual
appropriation law by reviving items in the
law of the preceding year, after vetoing the
corresponding items of the current
appropriation act, in the flagrant violation
for Organic Law.

7. He has made appointment to positions

and authorized the payment of salaries
therefore after having vetoed the
appropriations of such salaries.
8. He has used certain public funds to grant
additional compensation to public officials
in clear violation law.

9. He has arrogated unto himself the right

of exercising the power granted by law to
the Emergency Board after abolishing said
board on the ground that its power involved
an unlawful delegation of legislative
authority.
10. He has unduly interfered in the
administration of justice.

11. He has refused to obtain the advice of

the Senate in making appointments where
such advice is required by the Organic Law.

12. He has refused to submit the Senate

appointment for vacancies occurring during
the recess of the Legislature in
contravention of the Organic Law.
13. He has continued in office nominees
whose appointments had been rejected by
the Senate.

14. He has usurped legislative powers by

imposing conditions on legislative measures
approved by him.

15. He has in the administration of affairs

in Mindanao, brought about a condition
which has given rise to discord and
dissension between certain groups of
Christian and Mohammedan Filipinos.

16. He has by his policies created strained

relations between resident Americans and
Filipinos.

17.He has endeavored, on the pretext of

getting the government out of business, to
dispose of all the companies capitalized by
the government worth many millions of the
people’s money to powerful America
interests.
18. He has sanctioned the campaign of
insidious propaganda in the United States
against Filipino people and their
aspirations.

19. He has attempted to close the

Philippine National Bank so necessary to
the economic development of the country.
20. He has adopted the practice of
intervening in, and controlling directly, to
its minute details, the affairs of the
Philippine Government both insular and
local, in violation of self government.

21. He has insistently sought the

amendment of our laws approved by the
Congress of the United States, which
amendment would open up the resources
of our country to exploitation by predatory
interests.
 THE PROTESTS

“In the face of this critical situation,

we, the constitutional representatives of
the Filipino people, met to deliberate
upon the present difficulties existing in
the Government of the Philippine Island
and to determine how best to preserve
the supremacy and majesty of the laws
and to safeguard the right and liberties
of our people, having faith in the sense
of justice of the people of the United
States and inspired her patriotic
example in the early days of her
history, do hereby, in our behalf and
in the name of the Filipino people,
solemnly and publicly make known
our most vigorous protest against the
arbitrary acts and usurpations of the
present Governor-General of the
Philippine Islands, particularly against
Executive Order No. 37.”
 As far as majority of the Filipinos,
they are not aware of who Governor
Wood is. People keep on generalizing
the idea that the whole American
nation deceived us.
References

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_F._
Zaide
 https://armyhistory.org/major-general-
leonard-wood/
 https://prezi.com/fmvwjvdvugs9/copy-of-
filipino-grievances-against-governor-
wood/