Chapter 8

Home After Five Years

Left Rome on July 3, 1887
Boarded the vessel Djemnah at Marseilles (same he vessel he rode to Marseilles in 1882)
Interpreter

For the operation of his mothers eyes

To serve countrymen especially agrarian problems in Hacienda de Calamba
To know the effects of Noli Me Tangere
To find out why Leonor Rivera stopped writing

Saigon, Vietnam
Haiphong left for Manila on July 30
Arrived in Manila on the night of August 6
Arrived in Calamba two days later
Happy homecoming but his family was worried

Contributions
Medical clinic in Calamba (he was able to remove a double cataract from the eyes of
Donya Teodora, his first patient)
Patients from Manila and other provinces
Doctor Uliman the German Doctor
Emulsion de Scott (Scotts Emulsion)
$900 within a few months
Free services to the poor
Gymnasium in Calamba
Made paintings and translated the German poet Von Wildernaths poems into Tagalog

Olympias death
Unable to see Leonor Rivera

The Furor Over the Noli Me Tangere

Copies had arrived weeks before Rizal returned
Governor General Emilio Terrero

Warning from his professors Fathers Francis de Paula Sanchez, Frederico Faura, and Jose
Bech that he would lose his head
Lieutenant Jos Taviel de Andrade
Manila Archbishop Pedro Payo, O.P. sent a copy to Fr. Gregorio Echavarria, Rector of UST

heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religious order, anti-patriotic, subversive of

public order, injurious to the government of Spain and of the Philippine Islands in the
political order.

Permanent Commission on Censorship headed by Fr. Salvador Font, Augustinian Curate of

Tondo
Having Noli at home was a status symbol
Original price as of June 30, 1887 five pesetas
50 pesos each

Fr. Jos Rodriguez published Caingat Cayo in 1888

ignorant man
Vicente Barrantes in Espaa Moderna in 1890
Spanish senators Vida and Pando ad General Salamanca during Cortes

Marcelo H. Del Pilar wrote Caiigat Cayo (Slippery as an Eel)

Former professor Fr. Francis de Paula Sanchez
Filipino Catholic priest-theologian Fr. Vicente Garcia
Segusmundo Moret (former Miniester of the Colonies during the liberal episode in Spain in
1868)

Rizal was refined, educated and gentlemanly. The hobbies that interested him most were
hunting, fencing, shooting, painting, and hiking.

Agent of German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck

Ingrate

The Protesta de Calamba

Governor Terrero ordered investigation of the friar landholdings
Public Treasury Department to check how much administrators were paying
Tenants were losing money to the undue advantage of the Dominican administrators
Dominican landholdings compromised whole town including peoples houses
Increased rent every year
Dominican owner didnt contribute for the fiesta
Tenants who worked clearing the lands were dispossessed
High interest rate for delayed payments
Carabaos, tools, and homes were confiscated

Paciano in Barrio Pansol in 1885

Rizals sisters were allowed to hold land leases

Maintining churches and institutions like UST and Letran (given the royal status in 1785,
UST was prohibited to receive subsidy from government)
Dominican Seminary and missionary
Rent increased as costs increased
Investments by Dominican landowners
Gambling (one of which took place in the house of Lucia, Rizals sister)
Generous grace periods until tenants were able to pay
Rizal left in February 1888
Felipe Buencamino

Filed a case in court in 1889

Justice of the Peace of Calamba
Provincial court in Santa Cruz
Higher tribunal of Manila
Supreme Court in Madrid

50 houses
Governor General Valeriano Weyler
25 individuals including Paciano and brother-in-law Silvestre Ubaldo to Mindoro

Brother-in-law Manuel Hidalgo to Bohol

Controversy of the Noli

Influence of friars to government
Connection of tenants to Rizal
Real cause was their refusal to pay rent
El filibusterismo

Departure for Europe

Troublemaker, rabble-rouser
Threats
Refused to attend banquets invitations
Friars pressured Governor General Terrero to arrest/deport Rizal

Himno al Trabajo (Hymn to Labor)

Elevation Lipa, Batangas into the status of villa (Bacerra Law of 1888)
Family and townmates were already evicted when he arrived in Spain
Juan Cailles

Balabac, Palawan or Marianas Islands

February 3, 1888 (27 yrs old) boarded Don Juan
Perfecto Rufino Riego

Rizals departure left Calamba in a state of utter unrest and confusion

April 18, 1889 wrote to Mariano Ponce
Ceased being a pacifist, now a radical partisan