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Family tree made by Rizal when in Dapitan.
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History has recorded enough agrarian trouble, in all ages and in all countries, to prove the economic mistake of large holdings of land by
those who do not cultivate it. Human nature is alike the world over, it does not change with the centuries, and just as the Filipinos
had done, the Chinese at last obiected to paying increased rent for improvements which they made themselves.
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A Spanish judge required the landlords to produce their deeds, and, after measuring the land, he decided that they were then taking rent
for considerably more than they had originally bought or had been given. But the tenants lost on the appeal, and, as they thought it
was because they were weak and their opponents powerful, a grievance grew up which was still remembered in Rizal's day and was well known
and understood by him.
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Another cause of discontent, which was a liberalizing influence, was making itself felt in the Philippines about the time of Domingo's
death. A number of Spaniards had been claiming for their own countrymen such safeguards of personal liberty as were enjoyed by Englishmen,
for no other government in Europe then paid any attention to the rights of the individual. Learned men had devoted much study to the laws and
rights of nations, but these Spanish Liberals insisted that it was the guarantees given to the citizens, and not the political independence
of the State, that made a country really free. Unfortunately, just as their proposals began to gain followers, Spain became involved in
war with England, because the Spanish King, then as now a Bourbon and so related to a number of other reactionary rulers, had united
in the family compact by which the royal relatives were to stamp out liberal ideas in their own dominions, and as allies to crush England,
the source of the dissatisfaction which threatened their thrones.
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The Chinese Ancestry of Jose Rizal (continued)