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LIFE OF DR.HILARIO CAMINO MONCADO Dr. Moncado, Filipino Federation Head Leaving for Paris DR. MONCADO HERE, LEADING EXPONENT OF PHILIPPINE FREEDOM Written by Joe P. Palabao Vice President for Marketing Business Week Mindanao Corporation Book 2 Chapter 4 (Equality)
THE REAL ISSUE OF THE INDEPENDENCE QUESTION: THE ECONOMIC PHASE In 1931, the 13 Million Filipinos of the Philippines maintain that it is the duty as well as the privilege of every citizen to assert himself concerning their problems of their country. Thus we speak neither as a politician, nor as one controlled by the financial interests of the Philippines. As Filipino citizens we aim to prove why we believe the Philippine Islands are as able to rule themselves economically as well as politically. We consider it presumptuous on the part of American politicians to say that because the Philippines have not established themselves economically, Independence should still be denied them. In 1776 when America obtained her freedom from England, was she economically ready? It is not here necessary to relate the real economic conditions of the thirteen colonies at the time they obtained their freedom, for it is a well-known fact that they were still economically dependent and comparing their status with the Philippines now, the islands are better prepared economically than was America in 1776. The conditions laid down in the Jones Law of 1916 required only the establishment of a stable government. A permanent economic structure was not mentioned. Opponents of Independence refuse to discuss the conditions of the Jones Law knowing the Philippine Government has met the requirements therein, but aim to intimidate the Filipino people with arguments in which they picture the economic ruin of the Islands. They picture poverty in its most dreadful stages, thus seeking to convince the ambitious and industrious Filipino that his only hope of financial success lay in his willingness to be guided by Uncle Sam. The present uncertain status of the Philippines, which has been sapping what otherwise would have been a robust, economic constitution must give way to a definite and permanent solution of our status. And the only hope for this solution is the granting of immediate and complete Independence. When a child becomes of age he is sent by its parents into the world to face life for itself, if it clings to his mother’s skirts after he has matured, he becomes dependent and helpless, and so it is with the Philippines, we have clung to the
Dr. Hilario Camino Moncado, President of Filipino Federation of America, will sail this morning on the United States Liner Leviathan. On a trip around the world in the interest of Philippine Independence, Dr. Hilario Camino Moncado, President of the Filipino Federation of America, is arriving in Paris this afternoon from Berlin. Former Senator Clyde H. Tavenner of Illinois is accompanying the distinguished Filipino who will only remain in the capital for three (3) days. Dr. Moncado has been living in the United States for the past 15 years skirts of our mother, the United States, long enough and now feet it is time for to face the battle of life independently. We Filipinos wish to develop our own resources and we realize that Philippine economic structure needs reestablishment on a permanent basis. We do not object to a more slow economic growth, for we think it is wiser to permit our resources to be developed by our own people. They should meet their economic problems face to face and learn to cope with each new situation as it arises. In the annals of historical events, Filipino Federation of America President-Dr. & 5-Star General Hilario Camino Moncado was the ORIGINATOR of the idea that the PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC should have its beginning or establishment upon an anniversary of the American Independence Day which was written into Section 10 of the Act of March 23, 1934, and pursuant to which the Philippine Republic was established on July 4, 1946. In August of 1941, Dr. Moncado and his wife, Diana Toy Moncado, left the mainland for Honolulu. Upon arrival, he organized a drive to buy U.S. Savings Bonds and Stamps (then known as War Bonds) for the United States defense program. Members of the Federation devoted much of their time and effort to aid the Hawaii War Savings Staff and were instrumental in the sales of millions of dollars- worth of bonds. Prior to his departure for the Philippines, the territorial officers of the Federation headed by Mr. Benigno O. Escobido, Chairman of Public Relations, were designated in his behalf. Dr. Moncado and Mrs. Moncado arrived in the Philippines on September 21, 1941 and launched his campaign for the Presidency against President Manuel L. Quezon on the issue of Dominion Status for the Philippines instead of complete independence at a time when an international was being fought in Europe. The Philippine electorate debated on whether to accept President Quezon’s Independence or Dr. Moncado’s Dominion Status under the protection of the United States. The election was held on November 11, 1941. Out of 3,500,000 electors, he was defeated by only 10,000 votes. It was indeed a good fight for the United States. On the highlights of the works of Dr. Hilario Camino Moncado-as
President of the Filipino Federation of America with the other delegates went to the Nation’s capital and successfully defeated passage of the Bill. While in Washington D.C. President Moncado, who was given the task of serving as the Federation’s Goodwill Ambassador, was granted an audience with President Herbert Hoover of the United States. He was accompanied by Congressman Joe Crail, U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson and U.S. Senator Shortbridge, all of California. On that solemn occasion, President Moncado presented an International Gold Goodwill Medal to President Hoover of the United States on behalf of the Filipino Federation of America. The presentation of the gold goodwill medal was held on February 7, 1930. While he was in Washington D.C., President H.C. Moncado appeared to present his arguments for Philippine Independence before the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs of the United States Senate during the Seventy-First Congress of February 10, 1930. The Federation published a periodical, the Filipino Nation, a monthly magazine which sought to serve both Filipinos and Americans, reporting important news concerning the United States and the Philippines. It carried on a strong and enthusiastic campaign in support of Philippine Independence. It further devoted its pages to special articles on the history of the Constitution of the United States and the American way of life, which would be of benefit and knowledge to those Filipinos who came from the Philippines to the United States. In the early part of December 1931, the Filipino Federation again delegated is President Hilario Camino Moncado, to go to Washington, D.C. to plead for Philippine Independence. In 1932, he appeared before Congress when the Act of March 24, 1934 was under consideration for the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth. (The Tydings-macDuffie Act Public Law 127, 73rd Congress. With his fight for Philippine Independence-Quezon, Roxas and other Philippine leaders won the fight as to who would be given then identity-they were given the credit but since 1927 upon the foundation of the Federation of America-Dr. Hilario Camino Moncado was real champion for PHILIPPINE INDEPENDECE. His fight was fought inside the territories of the United
studying the principles of government, believes the time has come for carrying out the promise of independence made by the American Government at the time it took over the Philippines. As a leading exponent for the granting of immediate, absolute and unconditional independence to the 13 Million Filipinos, who form the only Christian nation in the Orient, Dr. Moncado is regarded as the outstanding figure for the first President of the New Republic if the United States consents to liberate the Philippines.
Ambassador of Peace and Goodwill States of America. He studied the American culture-and became accustomed to it and made a global historical mark-that he worked for the real Philippine Independence. His running for President under the Dominion Status was his ultimate and last ditch for the Filipinos to have their real independence. During the Japanese occupation, Dr. Moncado was in prison for many months, but on July 4, 1942, he escaped and was immediately commissioned as “Commander X” by the General Staff of the Crusaders Army forces throughout the Philippines which was composed of National Volunteers
Reserve Officers of the government of the Philippine Commonwealth and members of the Filipino Federation of America in the Philippines as well as American and Philippine guerillas to harass the enemy till General Douglas MacArthur and his forces returned to liberate the Philippines in 1944. Five-Star General Hilario Camino Moncado, in 1946 presented his candidacy for the first President of the Republic of the Philippines under the Modernist Party on the same issue of Dominion Status. He still had the hopes of convincing Filipino people to remain under the United
States as a dominion and work for real independence. However, he was defeated. The officers and members of the Filipino Federation of America in Hawaii were instrumental in urging Delegate Joseph R. Farrington to work hard for the Naturalization Bill in Congress in order to make possible for Filipinos as well as other nationalities on the Mainland to become American Citizens. Before Statehood, members of the Filipino Federation were also instrumental in endorsing Hawaii, then a territory, to become a state of the Union.
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