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in this newspaper were edited both in its Spanish text and in an Englishtranslation by John N. Schumacher, Father Jose Burgos, 134-19355. Altar y Trono (5 September 1870), 316.56. " Reynolds . . . was the founder of the harbor of Dagupan, labelling itas the harbor of the future and there setting up a huge depot of rice; and laterthe one he created with funds loaned him by the Official Bank of Hongkong,namely, the powerful league of rice monopolists, which occasioned theserious crisis of this product in 1885-1888": Vergara, La Masoneria, 7.According to its own records, the Official Bank of Singapore distributed inCebu, Bohol, and Leyte, 80,000 pounds sterling; the one in Hongkong,through the mestizo Corteza, more than 200,000 pounds in Panay andNegros. Both institutions leased immense rural properties such that the latterbecame the properties of foreign governments or official Britishcorporations" Op. cit., 17-18. Isabelo de los Reyes wrote in 1897: "One of themain reasons for the insurrection is the land question . . . . For the last tenyears, the country has been undergoing a commercial crisis which hasworsened in these. last years. Anil or indigo is paralyzed completely and theprices of abaca and sugar have so decreased that they hardly pay for theircultivation. Coffee has disappeared because of a pest which has attacked theplantations. And precisely, only the price of rice has gone up, an article ofprime necessity, since it is the basic food of the Filipino. Likewise, with thesechanges, the important articles have become more costly ": La SensacionalMemoria, 48. Note that these sources blame the friars for everything.57. AHN, "Ultramar," 5217, exp. 66; "Anonimo finnado de 'Unmilitar'," Biblioteca de la Real Academia de Historia (Madrid), "Colecci6nBauer," 6127, document 501. In the Governor General's report "of thepersons who, for their marked hostility to Spain, it is good should leave thecountry as a precautionary measure," the first listed is Leon Goicuria, aCuban lawyer, "a man of some ability, hates Spain since his brother wasexecuted in the island of Cuba for insurrection against the mother country':BAH, "Col. Bauer," 6127, document 528.58. Jose Ma. Jover Zamora, Espcula modernay contempordnea (Madrid,no date), 329.59. "Mr. Thomas Reynolds, an English man first, an American second ":Vergara, Op. cit., 6.26260. Artigas y Cuerva, Los Sucesos de 1872, 128.