Word: villamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filipinos, before they get independence, be taught its full implications, including U. S. tariff changes, Chinese immigration, the necessity for foreign capital.? Vincent Villamin, Filipino lawyer of Manhattan, often burned in effigy in the Philippines for his utterances...
...your today's issue of the CRIMSON, Nov. 3, 1926, Mr. Vincente Villamin, the Filipino lawyer, economist, student of international affairs, etc., etc., etc., is reported as having declared that "windy sentimentalism is the driving force behind most of the agitation for independence in the Philippine Islands." Mr. Villamin ought to know because he is full of "wind" himself...
...political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos. . . . . since it would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living." Mr. Villamin's "deep" study of economics has led him to the conclusion that Filipines most attend to their stomach first before thinking of independence. Yes, indeed! Especially is this true of jelly-fish. And Mr. Villamin ought to know...
...success could be attained through starting publicity by uttering a lot of "bunk", Mr. Villamin has certainly attained...
...Villamin could be credited as being the first and the only Filipino "Wolf! Wolf!" man that the Philippines ever have and ever will have. Respectfully yours, Jose B. Cortea...