Filipino Grievances

Againsts

Governor Wood
A visual representation
Today's Lesson
1 Author's Background 7 Philippines and America

2 Form of Document 8 Calvin Coolidge (President of USA)

3 When/Where the Document was

9 Expectation
Approved

4 General Wood
1 Reality
0
5 General Wood's Background
11 Arbitary Acts

6 Responsible as a General
12 The Protest
 Introduction
Erica, Cecille, and Evanny will be your
reporters for this session.
The goal of our session is to discuss how
Filipinos were determined for promised
independence from American Regime and
against Governor Wood's governance.

Erica Cecille Evanny

 Video
Presentation
Before we start with the session, we want
to you to watch this:

Time: 5 minutes
Let's begin!
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 Filipino Historian, Author, Politician from the
Born: May
Died:
October 1 town of Pagsanjan Laguna (1971-1975)
25, 1907 31, 1988

One of the founders of the International

2 Association of Historians Asia (IAHA)

Author's 3 President of the Philippines Historical

Association (Three Terms)

Background 4 Filipino Historian, Author, Politician from the

town of Pagsanjan, Laguna.

Education:

University of the Work:

Philippines (1931)
UP, SAN BEDA,
M.A University of
Santo Tomas (1943) MAPUA, UNIVERSITY

Gregorio Zaide
B.A and PhD of OF HAWAII
Philosophy

this one!
Form of
Document
The document as a form of
protest. It served as an
impeachment request for
Governor Wood.
( Zaide writes for the
constitutional representatives of
the Filipino people)
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Approved by Commission on
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November 10, 1926

 Died:
Born:
August 7,
October
1927
9, 1860

Education:

Harvard Medical

Governor General Leonard

School

Wood Work:
US Army as a Medical
Doctor, Brigadier-
General and became
Military Governor in
Cuba (1899-1902),

Military Governor in
Mindanao (1903),

Chief of Staff in US
(1910-1914),

Governor General in
Philippines (1921).

Leonard Wood
this one!
Philip pines and America
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America promised to Filipino that our country would be

preserved and fully developed under American regime
for the sake of the people.

For the promised independence, Filipino people manifest

their submissiveness and loyalty to meet the conditions
given to them. And because they trusted America, they
think twice to obey them.
 1 The President of The United States of
America.

He advised the Congress of America to fulfill

2 their promise since the goal has been

Calvin reached (loyalty from the Filipino people).

Coolidge

Major-General Leonard
Wood was sent to the
Philippines as
Governor-General.
Calvin Coolidge
this one!
 When/Where the
PE C T
EX pproved
Do cumenAt T
waI
sON
A
Cognizant of General Wood’s participation
in the liberation of Cuba, Filipinos
expected that spirit of cooperation would
be maintained.

Political emancipation would be complete.

When/Where the
RcuEmAeoL
Do waY
ntIT s
Appr ved
There was a train of usurpation and
arbitrary acts.
Resulted in curtailment of our autonomy
and destruction of our constitutional
system.
Reversal of America’s Philippine Policy.
 Action 1 Action 2
Arbitrary
Acts He has refused his assent to laws
which were the most wholesome
He has set at naught both the
legal authority and responsibility
and necessary heads of for the Philippine heads of
department. department.

Action 3 Action 4

He has substituted his He has reversed the policy of

constitutional advisers for a group Filipinizing the service of the
of military attaches without legal government by appointing
standing in the government and Americans even when Filipinos of
not responsible to the people. proven capacity were available.
 Action 5
Arbitrary
Acts He has obstructed the carrying
out of national economic policies
duty adopted by the Legislature,
merely because they are in
conflict with his personal views.
Action 7
He has made appointments to
positions and authorized the
payment of salaries therefore
after having vetoed the
appropriations of such salaries.
Action 6
He has rendered by merely
perfunctory the power of the
Legislature to pass the annual
appropriation law of the current
appropriation act, in the flagrant
violation for Organic Law.
Action 8
He has used certain public funds
to grant additional compensation
to public officials in clear violation
law.
 Action 9 Action 10
Arbitrary
Acts He has arrogated unto himself the
right of exercising the powers of
He has unduly interfered in the
administration of justice.
granted by law to the Emergency
Board after abolishing said board
on the ground that its powers
involved an unlawful delegation of
legislative authority.

Action 11 Action 12

He has refused to obtain the He has refused to submit the

advice of the Senate in making Senate appointment for vacancies
appointments where such advice is occurring during the recess of the
required by the Organic Act. Legislature in contravention of the
Organic Act.
 Action 13 Action 14
Arbitrary
Acts He has continued in office
nominees whose appointments had
He has usurped legislative powers
by imposing conditions on
been rejected by the Senate. legislative measures approved by
him.

Action 15 Action 16

He has in the administration of He has by his policies created

affairs in Mindanao, brought about strained relations between
a which has given rise to discord resident Americans and Filipinos.
and dissension between certain
groups of Christian and
Mohammedan Filipinos.

Arbitrary
Acts
Action 19
He has attempted to close the
Philippine National Bank so
necessary to the economic
development of the country.
Action 17
He has endeavored , on the
pretext of getting the government
out of business, to dispose of all
the companies capitalized by the
government worth many millions
of the people's money to powerful
America interests.
Action 20
He has adopted the practice of
intervening in, and controlling
directly, to it's minute details, the
affairs of the Philippine
Government both insular and local,
in violation of self-government.
Action 18
He has sanctioned the campaign of
insidious propaganda in the United
States against Filipino people and
their aspirations.
Action 21
.He has insistently sought the
amendment of our laws approved
by the Congress of the United
States, which amendment would
open up the resources of our
country to exploitation by the
predatory interests.
 The Protest
"In the face of this critical situation, we, the constitutional representatives of the
Filipino people, met to deliberate upon the present difficulties existing in the
Government of the Philippine Islands and to determine how best to preserve the
supremacy and Majesty of the laws and to safeguard the right and libraries of people,
having faith in the sense of justice of the people of the United States and inspired by
her patriotic example in the early days of her history, do hereby, in our behalf and in
the name of the Filipino people, solemnly and publicly make known our most vigorous
protest against the arbitrary acts and usurpation of the present Governor-General of
the Philippine Islands, particularly against Executive Order No. 37".

As far as majority of the Filipinos, they are not aware of who Governor Wood is.
People keep on generalizing the idea that the whole American nation deceived us.
 Thank you!
Have a great day ahead.

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