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Social Science 3 Jose

Rizals Life, Works &
Writings
CHAPTER 13:
Rizals Visit to the United States

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Rizal first saw America on April 28, 1888.

He saw the discriminatory treatment of the Chinese and
Negroes by the White Americans.
He kept notes of what he observed during the trip from
San Francisco to New York, where he took a ship from
England.
Rizal was a man of truth, he wrote what he had seen
and experience.
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Arrival
to San Francisco
The
streamer
Belgic, with Rizal on Board, docked at
San Francisco on Saturday morning, all passengers
are not allowed to land.

The American health authorities placed the ship under

quarantine on the ground that came from the Far East
where a cholera epidemic was alleged to be raging.
He discovered that the placing the ship under
quarantine was motivated by politics. The ship was
carrying 643 Chinese coolies.
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- At that time public opinion on the Pacific coast was

against
cheap
coolie labor because the coolies from
Arrival to
San Francisco
China were displacing white laborers in railroad
construction camps.
- After a week of quarantine, all first-class passengers
including Rizal, were permitted to land.
- May 4, 1888. the day he was permitted to go ashore,
Rizal registered at the Palace Hotel.
- Rizal mentioned in his diary the name of Leland
Stanford. Who was the millionaire senator representing
California.
- The President of the United States that time was Grover
Cleveland.
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On May 6, 1888. Rizal left San Francisco for Oakland,

Across
the American
nine
miles
across Continent
San Francisco Bay by FERRY
BOAT.
May 7 Reno, Nevada
May 8 Utah States
May 9 Colorado
May 10 Nebraska
May 11 Chicago
May 12 Niagara Falls
May 13 - Albany
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May 13, Rizal reached New York, thus ending his trip
Rizal American
in New York Continent.
across
He stayed 3 days in the city and called it the big town.
He visited scenic and historic places. He was awed and
inspired by the memorial to George Washington. He
wrote to Ponce : He is a great man who, I think, has no
equal to his country.
May 16, 1888. he left New York for Liverpool on board
the City of Rome.
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Rizals impression of America

Good impressions were:
1. The material progress of the country as shown in the
great cities, huge farms, flouring industries, and busy
factories.
2. The drive and energy of the American people.
3. The natural beauty of the land.
4. High standard of living.
5. Opportunities for better offered to poor immigrants.

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HisRizals
bad impression ofwas
the lack of racial equality.
America
There existed prejudice which was inconsistent with the
principles of democracy and freedom of which the
Americans talk so much but do not practice.
They do not have civil liberty. In some states the Negro
cannot marry a White woman, nor White man to a
Negress. Hatred against the Chinese leads to difficulty
for other Asiatics who, like Japanese are mistaken for
Chinese by the ignorant, and therefore being dislikes,
too.

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Rizals impression of America

In 1890, two years after Rizals visit to the United
States, Jose Alejandro, who was then studying
engineering in Belgium, he asked Rizal : What
impression do you have of America?
America, Rizal answered, is the land par excellence
of freedom but only of the WHITES.

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CLASS ACTIVITY

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