THE CAMPAIGN

TO REFORM
(1882-1892)
THE CAMPAIGN TO REFORM
REFORM MOVEMENT
The Reform Movement The unjust execution of
the 3 Filipino martyr priests :
Mariano Gomez
Jose Burgos,
Jacinto Zamora.
It also called gomburza
PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT
•Assimilate the Philippines as a province of Spain?
•Equality among Spaniards and Filipinos
•The philippines would be represented in the spanish
law making body called the cortes
•Human rights: freedom of speech, press and
freedom to seck justice.
 THE GREAT AND IMPORTANT
FILIPINO REFORMISTS

Graciano Lopez Jaena Jose rizal Marcelo H. del pilar

The Great Orator The great thinker and writer greatest journalist produced

The other reformists were Jose Ma. Panganiban, Antonio Luna, Mariano
Ponce, Eduardo de Lete, and a few others. They were all young men who
went to Europe to study. And they involved themselves in the cause of
their country.
GRACIANO LOPEZ JAENA
• Was born in Jaro, now a part of Iloilo City, on
December 18, 1856.
•His parents were Placido Lopez and Maria Jacobo
Jaena.
•He studied at the Seminary of Jaro to become a
priest but later shifted to becoming a physician
•Fray Botod a story by Jaena; talks about a certain
greedy, immoral friar
•He founded La Solidaridad
(Solidarity) in 1889 and became its first editor.
Eventually became the propaganda arm in Spain
LA SOLIDARIDAD
In 1889, he founded the newspaper LA Solidaridad (Solidarity) and
became its first editor.
Aims of the newspaper were the following:
(1) to fight reaction
(2) to stop all efforts to keep the Philippines abackward country,
(3) to extol liberal ideas, and
(4) to depend progress. The newspaper became the propaganda arm
of the Filipino reformistsin Spain.
•Lopez Jaena not only wrote articles favorable only
to the Filipinos but he also delivered speeches
defending them from the cruel charges of Spanish
writers like Pablo Faced and Wenceslao E. Petana,
who were anti-Filipino.
•In all his speeches he praised the Philippines and
called it “Pearl of the Orient”.
He called the Philippines “a piece of the palpitating heart of Spain”. He expressed the
demands of the Filipino reformists. These demands included the following:
(1) representation in the Spanish Cortes;
(2) the right to vote;
(3) freedom of speech, of assembly and of the press;
4) freedom of commerce;
(5) the removal of the friars from the Philippines
because they were an obstacle to progress;
(6) the education of the people;
(7) reforms in the jails of the country; and
(8) the abolition of the tithe payment consisting of one tenth of the produce of the land.
JOSE RIZAL
•The most brilliant of the Filipinos during his
time, Rizal was born in Calamba, Laguna on
June 19, 1861.
•He studied at the Ateneo Municipal and
later at University of Santo Tomas. He went
to Europe to continue his medical studies.
•n 1882, he went to Spain with the help of
his uncle and elder brother, Paciano.
•He studied medicine and several languages
such as French and German.
•At the age of twenty-six, Rizal wrote his first
novel, Noli Me Tangere or Touch Me Not.
•In second novel, El Filibusterismo
 Rizal wrote poems, essays and many articles- all showing his love
of country, his patriotism, his love of parents, his happiness and
sorrows. Because of his attacks on the civil and ecclesiastical
authorities in the Philippines,
 they hated him and worked for his arrest.They found a concrete
basis and opportunity when he returned to the Philippines and
founded La Liga Filipina, a patriotic society which was suspected
of uniting and preparing the people for revolution.
 He was first banished to Dapitan, Zamboanga, and later tried by a
military court that sentenced him to be shot to death. He was
executed in Bagumbayan Field (now Luneta/Rizal Park) on
December 30 1896
MARCELO H. DEL PILAR
•Marcelo H. Del Pilar, whom even his Spanish enemies
called the “greatest journalist produced by the purely
Filipino race”
•was born in the barrio of Cupang, Bulacan, Bulacan.
•On August 30, 1850. He studied at the collage of San Jose
and later at the University of Santo Tomas, whre he
finished his law studies in 1880.
•In 1882, he founded the Tagalog-Spanish newspaper,
Diariong Tagalog, which, although short lived, published
suggestions on ow to improve the administration of the
country.
Spanish novels written by Del Pilar
1) La Soberania Monacal en Filipinas (Monastic Sovereignty in. the
Philippines)
2) La Frailocracia Filipina (Frailocracy in the Philippines)

Tagalog writings written by Del Pilar

1) Caiingat Cayo
2) Dasalan at Toksohan
3) Kadakilaan ng Dios
4) Sagot ng España sa Hibik ng Pilipinas
PRO-FILIPINO SOCIETIES