"We must encourage our people to have a national outlook so that they may feel at home in whatever corner of the Philippines they may find themselves."
President Manuel Quezon, speaking before the National Assembly on "the country's conditions and problems." Quezon believed that buying up hacienda land and selling it to farmer tenants would be a burden to the national budget "when there is so much available fertile and untouched public land in ...
more "We must encourage our people to have a national outlook so that they may feel at home in whatever corner of the Philippines they may find themselves."
President Manuel Quezon, speaking before the National Assembly on "the country's conditions and problems." Quezon believed that buying up hacienda land and selling it to farmer tenants would be a burden to the national budget "when there is so much available fertile and untouched public land in many regions of our country, particularly in Mindanao."
"We thus have an opportunity to induce the settlement of our sparsely populated areas by the tenants of these “haciendas,” and the money that the Government would surely lose with their purchase could be invested to better advantage in the construction of roads and improvement of health conditions in said uninhabited but rich sections of the Philippines," he said.
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