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    This document summarizes Pedro Salgado's analysis of the Philippine economy under American colonial rule and the Japanese occupation. It describes how commercial agriculture led to the rise of an educated Ilustrado class. However, land ownership became increasingly concentrated in the hands of corporations and private owners. This caused social unrest among farmers who had to pay taxes despite lacking ownership over the land they lived on. Land policies were introduced but did not fully address the problems of landlessness and unequal distribution that worsened under the American colonial system.

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    AIRAH AMEROL SAMO

    MA-HISTORY MAJOR IN MINDAO STUDIES


    HISTORY 211 (THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MINDANAO)

    Salgado, Pedro V. “The Philippine Economy History and Analysis”


    Chapter 2: American Times and the Japanese Interlude
    Quezon City: R.P. Garcia Publishing Co. Inc., 1985.

    This article was written by Salgado who describes the Philippine economic situation during
    American colonialism and Japanese interlude in nineteenth century; the growth of commercial
    agriculture resulted in the appearance of a new class—they were the ilustrados or known as the
    Filipino educated class. What the author tries to explain is the overview about the land situation during
    the American Colonialism and Japanese imperialist goal that leads to economic disaster and
    destruction of our Philippine’s native Industries.

    “At the beginning of the 20th century the Church and the Friars, together with the caciques were the great
    landowners; today this group is enlarged by private corporations, which own more land than the Church and
    Friars ever did. In the Sugar-producing areas especially, land has been concentrated in the hands of
    corporations. On December 31, 1938 business corporations owned 346, 017 hectares of land: of these, 121, 096
    hectares belong to Filipinos, 106, 473 to Americans, and 70, 981 to Spanish corporations. A good deal of this
    land is worked by cash tenants, the reminder by laborer under farm managers.” (Pelzer, Karl )

    In this citation, Pelzer delineates the worsening land situation between the Church, Friars and
    the enlarge group of private corporations who initiated to take over the control to owns the land for
    their economic and political interest. Landlessness is a very reason of the social unrest of the Filipinos
    during that time because poor farmers were asked to pay taxes for the land they were living.

    Land ownership only worsened under the Americans because there was no limit on what extent
    of land can person own. The only beneficiaries from this system were the rich, since they can afford to
    buy lands as long as they can.

    Moreover, to solve this worsening problem land policies were proposed. These policies include
    Philippine Bill of 1902 and Torrens System or the Land Registration Act (Act No. 496) where people will
    register their names as land owners. This is expected to provide a more organized system within land
    ownership.

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