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Rizal and The La Solidaridad Newspaper

Rizal contributed writings to La Solidaridad, a newspaper founded in 1889 to advocate for reforms in the Philippines. His first article depicted the difficult conditions faced by Filipino farmers under Spanish rule. Rizal wrote under pseudonyms while in London, addressing topics like women's education. He also engaged in a romance with an English woman, Gertrude Beckett, before departing for Paris in 1889 to continue his mission.

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Rizal and The La Solidaridad Newspaper

Rizal contributed writings to La Solidaridad, a newspaper founded in 1889 to advocate for reforms in the Philippines. His first article depicted the difficult conditions faced by Filipino farmers under Spanish rule. Rizal wrote under pseudonyms while in London, addressing topics like women's education. He also engaged in a romance with an English woman, Gertrude Beckett, before departing for Paris in 1889 to continue his mission.

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Rizal and The La

Solidaridad Newspaper
On February 15, 1889, Graciano Lopez
Jaena founded the patriotic newpaper
called La Solidaridad in Barcelona
Aim of La Solidaridad
► To work peacefully for political and social reforms
► To portray the deplorable conditions of the
Philippines so that Spain may remedy them.
► To oppose the evil forces of reaction and
medievalism
► To advocate liberal ideas and progress
► To champion the legitimate aspirations of the
Filipino people to life, democracy and happiness
First Article of La Solidaridad
► Los Agricultores Filipinos (The Filipino
Farmers)
► Published on March 25, 1889
► In this article, he depicted the deplorable
conditions in the Philippines which cause the
backwardness of the country.
Los Agricultores Filipinos
(The Filipino Farmers)
The Filipino farmers has to struggle not only against
petty tyrants and robbers. Against the first, defense indeed is
permitted; against the latter, not always…

After the floods, locusts, fires, bad harvests, and the like,
the farmer capitalist has to deal with constable who takes
away form his laborers for personal service, some public
works, repair of roads, bridges and others; with the civil
guard who arrests them for various reasons, sometimes for
not carrying with them their cedulas(certificates) for not
saluting properly, for being suspicious persons or for no
reason whatsoever, and they manacle them to clean the
barracks and thus compel the capitalist to live on better
terms with the chief and, if not, they take away his carabaos,
oxen, in spite of many protest…
At times it is not the constable or the civil guard who
opposes so indirectly the minister of colonies. An official of
the court or of the provincial government, dissatisfied with
the farmer, urgently summons this or that laborer, if not
two or three. The unfortunate man undertakes a trip of
two or three days, uneasy and distrustful, spends his
savings, arrives, presents himself, waits, returns the next
day and waits, finally to be asked with a frown and the
look of a judge, abstruse and unknown things. He is lucky
if he comes out free from the questioning, for not
infrequently after it. He is sent to jail from which he
comes out later as stupid as before…"
Writing in London
► La Vision del Fray Rodrigues (The Vision of
Fray Rodriguez). Published in Barcelona
under his nom-de-plume Dimas Alang.
► Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
(February 22, 1889)
► Specimens of Tagal Folklore. (May, 1889)
► Two Eastern Fables (June, 1889)
Main points of Letter to the Young
Women of Malolos
► A Filipino mother should teach her children love of God,
fartherland, and mankind
► The Filipino mother should be glad, like the Spartan
mother, to offer her sons in the defense of the fatherland
► A Filipino woman should know how to preserve her dignity
and honor
► A Filipino woman should educate herself, aside from
retaining her good racial virtues and
► Faith is not merely reciting long prayers and wearing
religious pictures, but rather it is living the real Christian
way, with good morals and good manners.
Proverbial Sayings
► Malakas and bulong sa sigaw.
► Ang laki sa layaw karaniwa’y hubad.
► Hampas ng magulang ay nakatataba.
► Ang nagsasabi ng tapos ay siyang kinakapus.
► Nangangako habang napapako.
► Ang maniwala sa sabi’y walang bait sa sarili.
► Walang mahirap gisingin na paris nang
nagtutulogtulugan.
► Ang maglakad ng marahan, matinik ma’y
mababaw
Puzzles
► Isang butil na palay sikip sa buong bahay.
- ilaw.
► Matapang ako sa dalawa, duwag ako sa isa.
- tulay
► Dala ako niya, dala ko siya.
- sapatos
► Isang balong malalim puno ng patalim
-bunganga
Romance with Gertrude Beckett
► Rizal had a romantic interlude with the oldest of
the three Beckett sister. Gertrude “Gettie” as she
was affectionately called by Rizal was a buxom
English girl with brown hair, blue eyes, and rosy
cheeks who always gives company to Rizal. Their
friendship drifted towards romance and as their
flirtation was fast approaching the point of no
return, Rizal suppresed his feelings for Getrude for
he could not marry her because he had a mission
to fulfill.
Sculptures finished in London
► Prometheus Bound
► “The Triumph of Death over Life” and “The
Triumph of Science over Death” sent to
Professor Bluementritt in Leitmeritz.
► Carvings of the heads of the Beckett sisters
which was given as a farewell gift to the
Beckett sisters.
Adios London
► Suddenly on March 19, 1889, Rizal bade
foodbye to the kind Beckett family
(particularly Gertrude) and left London for
Paris. He was sad as he crosse the English
Channel, for he cherished so many beautiful
memories of London.

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