FILIPINO GRIEVANCES AGAINST GOVERNOR GENERAL WOOD
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FILIPINO GRIEVANCES AGAINST GOVERNOR GENERAL WOOD
JOSE ABAD SANTOS
JORGE BACOBO
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BORN IN SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA. HE WAS THE SON OF VICENTE ABAD SANTOS AND TORIBIA BASCO.
HE WAS A PENCIONADO AND STUDIED LAW IN NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS. AFTER HE PASSED THE BAT IN 1911, HE SERVED AS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY AT THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE AND LATER ROSE TO THE RANK OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL. HE WAS APPOINTED UNDERSECRETARY OF JUSTICE IN 1921 BUT GAVE UP THE POSITION AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CABINET 1923. HE SERVED AS CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL OF THE SENATE PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE AND IT AS DURING THIS TIME WHEN HE JOINED THE ANTI-WOOD CAMPAIGN. ON DECEMBER 30, 1941, HE ADMINISTERED THE OATH OF OFFICE OF PRESIDENT QUEZON AND VICE-PRESIDENT OSMENA FOR THEIR SECOND TERM. BEFORE QUEZON LEFT THE COUNTRY OM 1942, HE APPOINTED ABAD SANTOS AS ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT. ON APRIL 11, 1942, THE JAPANESE ARMY ARRESTED HIM IN BARILI, CEBU AND HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY BROUGHT TO MINDANAO.
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HE WAS EXECUTED IN MALABANG, LANAO IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS SON, PEPITO.
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born in Gerona, Tarlac on October 19, 1886. his parents were Tranquilino Bocobo and Rita Teodora Tabago.
In 1907, he earned his Bachelor of Law Degree from Indiana University under that Pensionado Program of the Colonial Government. He started his career as law in 1917, he was appointed full Professor of law and acting Dean of the College. He was a close associate of Manuel L. Quezon and served as on of his speech writers. He became President of the University of the Philippines from 1934 to 1939 and associate justice of the supreme court from 1942-1944.
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He died on July on July 23, 1965
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Filipino grievances against governor general wood is a document written in a form of protest particularly against the executive order no. 37.
It is approved by the commission on independence on November 17, 1926 (Appointed: October 14, 1921 until August 7, 1927)
Leonard wood is a United States Army Major General. He became the military governor of Cuba from 1899-1902, and then governor general of the Philippines from 1921-1927. In 1903 he arrived in the Philippines. He became the commanding governor of the Moro province. He was not the only head of the civil government with a legislative government responsible for five districts, but he is also the commanding general troops in the department of Mindanao and sulu. After years, he became the military commander of the Philippine Division. He conducted an investigation to which he covered 48 provinces into which the island is divided. The investigation is about the conditions, geographic, climatic, natural, human and governmental. If the Filipinos are capable of self-government.
Historical Background/ Context of the Document
The promise of America. The face of America: an emblem of freedom. The symbol of altruism. They vowed to train us in the art of self government and granting the independence of our country. It is done for the benefit of the filipino people. Not the americans. The filipinos trusted the americans with 20 years of civil government. They cooperated and applied themselves patiently and diligently. Leonard wood was then assigned by president of America (president calvin Coolidge) To be the governor-general. He was assigned to fulfill the pledge and it is expected by the people that the mutual understanding and cooperation would be maintained wherein political emancipation would be complete.
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FILIPINO GRIEVANCE AGAINST GOVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD
-Major-General Leonard Wood arrived in the Philippine island in 1903 after his services in Cuba. He was appointed governor of the metro 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.
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EXPECTATION
Cognizant of General Wood’s participation in the liberation of Cuba, Filipinos expected that spirit of cooperation would be maintained. Political emancipation would be complete.
There was a train of usurpation and arbitrary acts reacted in curtailment of our autonomy and destruction of our constitutional system reversal of America's Philippine policy
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- he has refused his assent to laws which were the most wholesome and necessary heads of department.
- he has set at naught both the legal authority and responsibility for the Philippine heads of departments.
- he has substitute constitutional advisers for a group of military attaches without legal standing in the government and not responsible to the people.
- He has reversed the policy of filipinizing the service of the government by appointing americans even when filipinos of proven capacity were available.
- he has obstract the carrying out of national economic policies duty adopted by the legislature, merely because they are in conflict with his personal views.
- 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.
- He has made appointments to positions authorized the payment of salaries therefore after having vetoed the appropriations of such salaries.
Arbitrary act
- he has used certain public funds to grant additional compensation to public officials in clear violation law.
- he has arrogated unto himself the right of exercising the powers granted by law to the emergency board an unlawful delegation of legislative authority.
- He has unduly interfered in the administration of justice.
- He has refused to obtain the advise of the senate in making appointments where such advice is required by the organic act.
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- He has refused to submit the senate appointment for vacancies occurring during the recess of the legislature in contravention of the organic act.
- he has continued in office nominees whose appointments had been rejected by the senate.
- he has usurped legislative powers by imposing conditions on legislative measure approved by him.
- he has, in the administration of affairs in mindanao, brought about a condition which has given rise to discord and dissention between certain groups of Christians and mohammedan filipinos
- He has by his policies created strained relations between resident americans and filipinos.
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- he has endeavored, on the pretext of getting the government out of business, to dispose of all the companies capitalized by the government worth man millions of the people’s money to powerful America interest
- he has sanctioned in the campaign of insidious propaganda I the united states against filipino people and their aspirations
- he has attempted to close the Philippine national bank so necessary to the economic development of the country
- 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
- he has insistently sought the amendment of our laws approved by the congress of the united stated, which amendment would open up the resources of our country to exploitation by predatory interests
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Importance and contribution of the Document/text in Understanding phil. History
knowing the condition of the filipinos; filipinos often experience hardship and their lives and leaders are supposed to help them instead they put them lower.
- manipulation of the policies and laws have easily manipulated the laws they have created a new policy. Making it possible to easily change a law in favor to him which was against the organic law.
-Disobeyed the organic act – organic act is the system of foundation of the government. Corporation or any other organizations body of rules a constitutions a particular form of organic law for sovereign state.
executive order no. 37 – governor wood maid his own rule and ordered the issue for his own good we were fooled by false promise. He wants to take over the Philippines because he saying that filipinos are less compare to americans. Acording to an interview done by Robert law bacon; general wood said that their would be strife, disorder, bloodshed if he left. He also said that trade, and credit would be ruined with the inevitable concomitants
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