REPORTING SCRIPT

BORNEO COLONIZATION PROJECT:

-UNDER THE GOVERNOR VALIERNO WEYLER’S TERRISTORIC REGIME, RIZAL

CONCEIVED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FILIPINO COLONY IN NORTH BORNEO
(SABAH)

-THE BORNEO PROJECT WAS ALSO CALLED “NUEVA CALAMBA” OR NEW

CALAMBA

-THIS WAS SETTLEMENT PROJECT PLANNED BY RIZAL FROM 1891-1892

It stemmed from the Calamba

Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy)
It stemmed from the Calamba
Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy)
It stemmed from the Calamba
Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy)
It stemmed from the Calamba
Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy)
It stemmed from the Calamba
Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy)
It stemmed from the Calamba
Land Crisis,
wherein the whole town of
Calamba, then a Hacienda of
the Dominican Friars, faced
problems
with land taxes and rent
(tenancy).
-IT STEEMED FROM THE CALAMBA LAND CRISIS, WHEREIN THE WHOLE TOWN
OF CALAMBA, THEN A HACIENDA OF THE DOMINICIAN FRIARS, FACED
PROBLEMS WITH LAND, TAXES AND RENT

-THE FRIARS WERE FAVORED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF MADRID.

-FRIARS MEANS MEMBER OF ANY OF CERTAIN RELIGIOUS ORDERWS OF MEN,

ESPECIALLY THE FOUR MENDICANT ORDERS (AUGUSTINIANS, CARMELITES, DOMINICANS,
AND FRANCICANS)

-THIS UNFORTUNATELY MEANS THAT THE TENANTS OF CALAMBA WERE MANDATED TO

EVACUATE WITHIN 12 DAYS OR ELSE WOULD BE FORCEFULLY DEPORTED.

-GOVERNOR-GENERAL WEYLER USED FORCE BY SENDDING 50 SOLDIERS TO BURN

DOWN HOUSES AND DRIVE OUT CITIZENS
-WHILE RIZAL WAS TRYING TO FIND A WAY FOR HIS FELLOWMEN TO LIVE PEACEFULLY,
TO PERHAPS MIGRATE SOMEWHERE ELSE, HE MET ENGLISH W.B. PRYOR, ALONG WITH
HIS WIFE, WHO WERE GOING TO SABAH IN NORTH BORNEO

-W.B. PRYOR PUSHED RIZAL TO TRY MAKING A FILIPINO SETTLEMENT IN BORNEO

-IN MARCH 7, 1892, RIZAL WENT TO SANDAKAN ON BOARD THE SHIP MENON TO
NEGOTIATE WITH THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FILIPINO
COLONY

-AN AGREEMENT FORM WAS MADE ON HOW THE COMMUNITY WAS TO BE GOVERNED

-THE BRITAIN NORTH BORNEO CHARTERED COMPANY OFFERED PERMANENT

SETTLEMENT AND LEASE OF LANDS WORTH OF 100,000 ACRES OF LAND FOR 999 YEARS,
FREE OF ALL CHARGES

-WITH THIS, THE COMMUNITY WAS TO BE SELF-GOVERNED WITH THEIR OWN LAWS

-THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COOK ENTERED

NEGOTIATIONS WITH RIZAL, AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE GOVERNMENT AS WELL ON
APRIL 6, 1892

-BY APRIL 20, HE WAS BACK IN HONG KONG

-HIS BORNEO COLONIZATION PROJECT WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSE TO RIZALS

FRIENDS IN EUROPE (JUAN AND ANTONIO LUNA, LOPEZ JAENA, BLUMENTRITT, DR.
BAUTISTA, ETC

-LOPEZ JAENA DECLARES HIS DESIRE TO JOIN THE COLONY

-HER WORDS TO RIZAL IN JOINING THE COLONY IS “I HAVE GREAT DESIRE OF JOINING
YOU, RESERVE FOR ME THERE A PIECE OF LAND WHERE I CAN PLANT SUGARCANE. I
SHALL GO THERE… TO DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE CULTIVATION OF SUGARCANE AND
THE MAKING OF SUGAR. SEND ME FURTHER DETAILS”

-ON THE OTHER HAND, RIZAL’S BROTHER IN LAW OBJECTED TO THE COLONIZATION
PROJECT

-HIDALGO THINKS WHAT OTHER PEOPLE WILL SAY IF THEY LEAVE KNOWING THEIR
SACRIFICES THEY MADE AND ASK RIZAL WHY SHOULD THEY GO IN A FOREIGN LAND
WITHOUT FIRST EXHAUSTING ALL WITHOUT FIRST EXHAUSTING ALL MEANS FOR THE
WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY WHICH NURTURED THEM FROM THEIR CRADLES.

-THE INFAMOUS WEYLER, WHOM THE CUBANS ODIOUSLY CALLED “THE BUTCHER” WAS
RELIEVED OF HIS GUBERNATIONAL OFFICCE

-A NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL EULGIO DESPUJOL, THE COUNT OF CASPE, ANNOUNCED

TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE A FINE PROGRAM OF THE GOVERNMENT
-RIZAL SENT GOVERNOR DESPUJOL A LETTER OF FELICITATION AND OFFERING HIS
COOPERATION

-HOWEVER, THE GOBERNOR GENERAL,VIOLATING THE SIMPLE RULE OF SPANISH

COURTESY, DID NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF HIS LETTER

-AFTER WAITING 3 MONTHS FOR REPLY, RIZAL WROTE A SECOND LETTER DATED MARCH
21, 1892

-THE LETTER THAT CONTAINS HIS REQUEST TO PERMIT THE LANDLESS FILIPINOS TO
ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN BORNEO WAS GIVEN TO A SHIP CAPTAIN TO MAKE SURE IT
WOULD REACH GOVERNOR DESPUJOL’S HAND

-DESPUJOL ONCE AGAIN DIDN’T REPLY BUT HE NOTIFIED THE SPANISH CONSUL
GENERAL IN HONGKONG THAT HE COULD NOT APPROVE THE FILIPINO IMMIGRATION TO
BORNEO

-HIS REASON WAS THAT THE MOVE WOULDN’T BE PATRIOTIC AS THE PHILIPPINES WAS
ALREADY SHORT IN LABOR FORCE.

-THERE WERE OF COURSE, SUSPICIONS THAT ONCE IN SABAH, THE PEOPLE WOULD
RENOUNCE THEIR NATIONALITY AND WOULD ESCAPE THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT