of opulence the sentiments of independence in the colonies, paying
with its wealth for its lack of liberty, as the English do in India,
who moreover leave the government to native rulers, then build roads,
lay out highways, foster the freedom of trade; let the government heed
material interests more than the interests of four orders of friars;
let it send out intelligent employees to foster industry; just judges,
all well paid, so that they be not venal pilferers, and lay aside all
religious pretext. This policy has the advantage in that while it may
not lull the instincts of liberty wholly to sleep, yet the day when
the mother country loses her colonies she will at least have the gold
amassed and not the regret of having reared ungrateful children.






1. Sancianco y Goson, Gregorio: El progreso de Filipinas. Estudios
economicos, administrativos y politicos. Parte economica. Madrid,
Imp. de la Vda. de J M. Perez, 1881 Pp XIV-260.

An eminent student of Philippine life and history, James A. LeRoy in
his "The Philippines, 1860-1898--Some comment and bibliographical
notes" published in volume 52 of Blair and Robertson, Philippine
Islands 1493-1898, praises this book (p. 141) as "especially
valuable on administrative matters just prior to the revision of
the fiscal regime in connection with the abolition of the government
tobacco monopoly", and for its "data on land, commerce, and industry"

2. Before 1590, one of the Spanish officers in the Philippines,