The group found that the novel containsubversive ideas against the Church and Spain and recommended that the importation, reproduction and circulation of the pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited.
Governor-General Terrero was not satisfied with the report so he sent the novel to the Permanent Commission of Censorship which was composed of priests and lawyers.
Augustinian friar curate ofTondo was the head of the commission.
Fr. Jose Rodriguez – Augustinian Prior of GuadalupePublished a series of eight pamphlets under the heading Questions of Supreme Interest to blast the Noli and other anti-Spanish writing.Copies of anti-Rizal pamphlets were sold after mass – Many Filipinos were forced to buy them in order not to displease the friars..
The committee that examined the Noli Me Tangere were composed of Dominicanprofessors. The report of the faculty members from UST about the Noli states that the novel was: – Heretical, impious and scandalous in the religious orders, and anti-patriotic, subversive of pubic order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order.
The newspaper published Font’s written reportThe banning of the Noli Me Tangere served to make it popularThe masses supported the book.
Governor-General Emilio Terrero ordered a government investigation of the friar estates to remedy whatever inequities might have been present in connection with land taxes and with tenantrelations.One of the friar estates affected was the Calamba hacienda by the Dominican order since 1883.
Upon hearing about the investigation, thepeople of Calamba asked helped from Rizal togather facts and list the grievances so that thegovernment might institute certain agrarianreforms.
The novel was fiercely attacked in the session hall of the Senate of the Spanish Cortes.Vicente Barantes – Spanish academician of Madrid who formerly occupied high government position in the Philippines bitterly criticized the novel in an article published in the Madrid newspaper, La España Moderna.
The hacienda of the Dominican Order comprised not only the lands around Calamba, but the whole town of Calamba. The profits of the Dominican Order continually increased because of the arbitrary increase of he rentals paid by the tenants. The hacienda owner never contributed a single centavo for the celebration of the town fiesta, for the education of the children, and for the improvement of agriculture.
Tenants who spent much labor in clearing the lands were dispossessed of the said lands for flimsy reasons. High rates of interest were arbitrarily charged the tenants for delayed payment of rentals. When the rentals could not be paid, the hacienda management confiscated the work animals, tools, and farm implements of the tenants.
Defenders of Noli Me TangereBecause of the interest of both enemies and protectors of the Noli, the price of the book increased from five pesetas per copy to 50 pesetas per copy.
Rizal cried because of his gratitude to his defenders especially to Fr. Garcia who defended him unexpectedly. He attacked Barantes by exposing his ignorance of Philippine affairs and mental dishonesty which is unworthy of an academician.
Agrarian Problem in Calamba
Findings submitted by Rizal
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