Excerpt from Philippine Independence: Speech of Hon. Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 2, 1911 Nothing was forgotten. And the resolutions of the assembly making a public declaration of the sentiments of the people to live a free and independent life are a monument to its loyalty and its civicism. It is not true that some of the political parties represented in the assembly have. Made concrete promises of immediate independence if its members reached the assembly. And the only thing which sustained it and which now sustains it is that the Filipino people desire it. The policy of the assembly was conducted within the amplest tolerance and the best feeling of intelligence and cooperation. And this was done not because within or without the assemhlv the Filipino people had renounced its ideals, but because it was believed that such policy would be. Among other measures. A proper argument to show the justice of such ideals. In this manner when the party that obtained the majority in the first elections again presented itself t the people in the electoral campaign which preceded the second assem ly. It received the most sincere and complete approval of the people. Which elected a more considerable majority in its favor than in the past. Education. Material improvements. Agriculture, industry and com merce, public health. Local governments. Labor - everything which has been under the consideration of the assembly - received immediate and efficient attention. Two very notable tendencies of the legislation passed are. First, the profoundly democratic sense which was shown from the first instance in the law appropriating a million pesos for the schools. And in the law governing labor accidents: and, 8 nd, the character of stability brought to the legislative sphere an appropri ately shown in the law which provided for the revision of all the codes 1nd the compilation of the infinite number of administrative laws now in force. When there is seen and judged with eyes free from all prejudice the result of the Philippine Assembly, which has fully jus tified the hopes of those that vouched for it and were responsible to Congress for its establishment. And when are considered the tremendous difficulties that in the advance of the liberty of all countries aecom pany the organization and operation of popular assemblies, in the serene judgment of all impartial and just men there must necessarily be admitted the basis on which the Filipino people tests in insisting on their demands which adversity and mishaps fortify and solidify, to possess the high attributes and assume the grave responsibilities of a sovereign free and independent government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.