Philperiodicals

Interview to Mariano Ponce

El Heraldo de la Revolución was the official organ of the Revolutionary Government.  On January 1, 1899, El Heraldo published an interview from The Shanghay Daily Press with Mariano Ponce y Collantes (1863 – 1918), an active member of the Propaganda Movement and one of the founders of La Solidaridad, and by then a diplomatic representative of the First Republic to Japan, where he would stay until March 1901.  In the interview, Ponce defended that the Philippines had the capacity for self-government, knocking down any legitimacy for the ongoing American occupation by the mere fact of the functioning nature of the First Republic. For Ponce, the revolution had acted as a manifestation of the Filipinos’ will to be independent, a living referendum voted through blood and sacrifice, and he hoped America would “respect the supreme will of the people”, manifested in a new state, which, as Ponce argues here, was almost constituted in a “civilized manner”, with a central administration, separation of powers, its own press, its own popular education and its own national economy, even its own university and free associations. There was, therefore, no reason for any kind of intervention.

Fecha

1899-01-01

Fuente

El Heraldo de la Revolución, year II, num. 1, January 1, 1899, pp. 2-5.  In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

CuUnjieng, Nicole. 2020. Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912. Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Columbia University Press. 
Francis A. Gealogo 2013. “Mariano Ponce and Pan Asianism,” in Naning: Mariano Ponce 150th Birth Anniversary Commemorative Lectures & Selected Articles in La Solidaridad, ed. National Historical Commission of the Philippines. Manila: National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
Hau, Caroline S., and Kasian Tejapira. 2011. Traveling nation-makers: Transnational flows and movements in the making of modern Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore.
Mojares, Resil B. 2011. “Los itineraries de Mariano Ponce y el imaginario político filipino,” in Filipinas, un país entre dos imperios, ed. María Dolores Elizalde and Josep M. Delgado. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra. 

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Idioma

Spanish, Tagalog

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Materia

American colonialism

El Heraldo de la Revolución

Philippine Revolution

Republic of Malolos

US-Philippines relations