Rizal in Dapitan

- Conscience was deeply troubled

- Farmland was seized so he blamed himself TRUE! He as the one who
instigated
- Article: Pepe was not to be blamed seems that Paciano should be the one
culpable
o Pepe laid down the legal framework
o Both brothers were to be blamed

Rizal family at HK
1. Safe conduct pass to revoke the standard of arrest
2. Extradition of Paciano exile in Mindanao
3. Relocation of Calamba tenants to Sabah

1892: JP returned to PH with his sister Lucia

- he was given a safe conduct pass travel to Luzon and organize La Liga

La Liga ended in the organization stage

Found leaflets in his luggage rebellious
- Convicted to a crime exile to Dapitan
- Might be a frameup by Rizals enemies
- Strange part: JP was quiet; not writing down any defense
o Very odd for the character of JP
o Should have been noisy
o He seemed to just ACCEPT it
- Next thing you know he is already in Dapitan
- You would not hear/see any writing from him stating that he is innocent VERY
STRANGE
- Although there is no proof it is a frameup or not

Rizals initial stay in Dapitan

- Not detained, free to roam
- Capitan Carnicero
o Not typical guardia sibil
o Liberal
o 1st kakwentuhan of Rizal in matter of philosophy, etc.
- Theory that Rizal is presented in all characters of NMT
- Dapital NOT EXILE FOR RIZAL
o What is it?

1887: Riazls return to the Philippines

- People thought he was very strange
- Dr. Uliman
- Wanted to present himself as a European
- Calamba farming town but JP was in coat and tie

1892: Dapitan = underdeveloped barrio

- JP in coat and tie weird

Rizal enters into Dapitan community

 - Pepe made taya to the lotto won P20,000 (x1000)
- What did he do with the money?
o P2000 gave to his father (kind of like paying his guilt for the loss of the
house and farm)
o P18000 PURCHASED his own land in Dapitan (the most that his
family could do was rent)
Hired Dapiteos to become laborers
o Crucial elements HARD WORK
- Before Pepe, there was no stable work for the people
o Agronomy and Land Surveying Rizals background
o From an ilustrado inquilino (has land/rents land)
- Products produced in Dapitan:
o Fruit-bearing trees
o 2 products that were unusual:
Cacao and coffee JP was a pioneer of these products
Galleon Trade
First planted in Visayas
Native crop of Latin America
o Java (Indonesia)
Coffee
Near Mindanao
Really humid (tropicalized) with a good number of rainfall
- What did he do with the profits?
o Made a school Rizals Dapitan Boarding School
All levels, all boys
16 students (was already a big number before)
Public schools are far
Lack of transportation
Lack of facilities
BAD RUMORS
Taught in school
Spanish, History, Ethics, Math, Fencing, French
Outside Rizal encouraged the students to play:
Gymnastics, Boxing, Wrestling, Stone-throwing,
Swimming, Arnis?
Taught ENGLISH (did not think America will colonize the PH)
Why? NMT, Kabanata 25
o 2 flying objects: 1 wrote in Japanese, 1 wrote in
English
1900: English was already widely spoken in the rest of the world
Wanted his students to be globalized citizen of the
world
o Bought land the neighboring lands until he expanded until the shore
line
Expanding employment for the Dapiteos

CSR
- What did he do with the remainder of his money?
 o He started community projects for Dapitan
- Farming is still a CORPORATE business profit-oriented
- Development of civic virtues
- Community projets
o Water system (Irrigation)
No irrigation in PH only during Cory Aquinos administration
From mountains vs. rain (for other filos?)
o Aqueducts
Before, people used to get water from deep wells
Artisan wells Dapitan contaminated
By malaria mosquitos
o Reason for creating the aqueducts
o Lighting Systems
Coconut oil lamps
o Renovated the Town Plaza
o Taxonomizing
Classifying and naming flora and fauna
- During this time:
o Rizals idea on citizenship
He was mistaken
With lowland Christian Filipinos
Lumads as mature socially, emotionally, and culturally like the
lowlanders
They must also be Filipinos
Equally qualified
o If Dapitan is not an exile then what is it?
A LABORATORY!!! For nationhood
Ideal template for Philippines
o Dapitan not won from revolution, not dependent
on Spaniards