Word: gabaldon
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...customary for retiring Commissioners to address the U. S. House of Representatives. But Lawyer Gabaldon had so many harsh things to say that he thought it best simply to print his farewell in the Congressional Record because, as he said to the invisible Representatives in his introduction: "Personally, I love you one and all . . . I do not blame you individually, gentlemen of the House . . . I only wish that our fate were in your hands...
...target of Lawyer Gabaldon's attack, which historians called the most bellicose formal pronouncement ever made by a Filipino Commissioner in the 30 years the U. S. has governed the Territory, was "Powerful forces that you do not see . . . enormous sums of American capital...
After this purely political appeal, Lawyer Gabaldon settled down to cases. He flayed Katherine Mayo, the palpitant, middle-aged maiden lady from Manhattan, whose Isles of Fear preceded her Mother India as a sensational bestseller, calling her a "vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even...
...experience of seven years as Resident Commissioner in Washington," concluded Lawyer Gabaldon, "has convinced me that the average member of Congress is too busy with affairs concerning his own country to give Philippine matters the attention they must receive to be intelligently and fairly passed upon...
...legislation in question provides for increased salaries for the Governor General and other officials and pay for "advisers" desired by Governor General Stimson in addition to his regular Cabinet. Lawyer Gabaldon's objection was based in the familiar phrase, "Taxation without representation." He thought the Philippine legislature, when it meets, should be allowed to pass on these expenditures of island taxes. In general, the Gabaldon revolt is against the dilatory, if not reactionary trend of U. S. Philippine policy since 1899, when Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president of the first Philippine Commission, construed the U. S. policy...