{"id":6151,"date":"2014-11-19T02:32:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2014-11-19T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:32:47","slug":"mabini-in-america-inquirer-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/19\/mabini-in-america-inquirer-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mabini in America | Inquirer Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day Mabini was buried saw an unprecedented outpouring of support and sympathy [I have written on this before]. Thousands of people joined the funeral procession. A visiting American woman, whose name I [still] have not yet been able to determine, wrote a vivid account for a Boston newspaper [which included this extraordinary passage]: \u201cIt seemed as though the whole city of Manila had gathered, and I could not help noticing the large proportion of strong and finely intelligent faces, especially among Mabini\u2019s more intimate friends. Most noticeable, also, and with a certain suggestiveness for the futrue sic, was the extraordinary number of young men, many of them evidently students, keen, thoughtful and intelligent looking.\u201d [She saw Mabini in his mourners.]Mabini was never in America, of course. At the turn of the 20th century, Guam [his place of exile] was a new possession of the United States, American soil-in-the-making. So the man whom LeRoy called the \u201cchief irreconcilable,\u201d whom Gen. Elwell Otis labelled the \u201cmasterful spirit\u201d behind Philippine resistance to American occupation, was only present in the United States in the sense that he represented a new idea\u2014an intellectual at the head of a revolution, an ideologue.In Mabini\u2019s America, he was the un-Aguinaldo.
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The day Mabini was buried saw an unprecedented outpouring of support and sympathy [I have written on this before]. Thousands of people joined the funeral procession. A visiting American woman, whose name I [still] have not yet been able to determine, wrote a vivid account for a Boston newspaper [which included this extraordinary passage]: \u201cIt … <\/p>\n

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