The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)

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Palliative reforms are useless and even harmful when a government faces evils that need a radical cure

Their wordsWe said, and once more we repeat, and will ever assert, that reforms which have a palliative character are not only ineffectual but even prejudicial, when the government is confronted with evils that must be cured radically.

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Palliative reforms are useless and even harmful when a government faces evils that need a radical cure

Their wordsWe said, and once more we repeat, and will ever assert, that reforms which have a palliative character are not only ineffectual but even prejudicial, when the government is confronted with evils that must be cured radically.
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Real reform in the Philippines must begin with a free press and Filipino delegates

Their wordsThe minister, then, who wants his reforms to be reforms, must begin by declaring the press in the Philippines free and by instituting Filipino delegates.
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Uprisings and revolutions have always occurred in countries where thought and feeling were forced into silence

Their wordsLet us see what History says: uprisings and revolutions have always occurred in countries tyrannized over, in countries where human thought and the human heart have been forced to remain silent.
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Public offices should be awarded by competition, with the work and its judging published

Their wordsOffices and trusts should be awarded by competition, publishing the work and the judgment thereon, so that there may be stimulus and that discontent may not be bred.
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No claim, not even in God's name, entitles Spain to keep six million people exploited and denied their rights

Their wordsSpain can not claim, not even in the name of God himself, that six millions of people should be brutalized, exploited and oppressed, denied light and the rights inherent to a human being, and then heap upon them slights and insults.
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It is better for a government to keep pace with a people's desires than to give way before them later

Their wordsTherefore, we repeat, and we will ever repeat, while there is time, that it is better to keep pace with the desires of a people than to give way before them: the former begets sympathy and love, the latter contempt and anger.
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Spain should grant Filipinos their rights freely, without reservations or mistrust

Their wordsSince it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.

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