OPENING STATEMENT

AS THE IMMORTAL CLASSIC OF CLARO M. RECTO WOULD ALWAYS TELL

“NATIONALISM IS NOURISHED BY A SENSE OF HISTORY. IT IS OF ESSENCE TO
KNOW THE PAST”
GOING BACK TO THE SPANISH COLONIALISM, I WOULD BE LYING IF I SAY THAT
INDEPENDENCE WAS GAINED WITH JUST A BLINK OF AN EYE. 1872. THIS IS A
YEAR OF ESSENCE AS THIS CONNOTES ONE OF THE EVENTS THAT LEAD TO A
TRAGIC YET MEANINGFUL PART OF OUR HISTORY- THE CAVITE INCIDENT.

SPANISH OFFICIAL’S UNHUMANE WAY OF RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT, FRIARS’

ABUSE TO POWER, THE ABOLISHON OF THE CITIZENS RIGHTS, TO NAME A FEW
ARE REASONS WHY THE PEOPLE LONGED FOR INDEPENDENCE.

THUS, THE STAND OF OUR TEAM REGARDING THE MOTION IS THAT CAVITE
INCIDENT IS A REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT IN
THE COUNTRY, AND NOT JUST SIMPLY A MUTINY OR DRIVEN BY LABOR ISSUES
DURING THE TIME OF GENERAL IZQUIERDO, BECAUSE SAYING SO IS SUCH A
LAME FORCE IN EXCHANGE TO THE BLOOD OF GOMBURZA AND MANY OTHER
NATIVES DURING THOSE TIMES.

SUMMARY
THE CENTRAL QUESTION HERE IS, WHAT REALLY TRANSPIRED THAT LEAD TO
THE CAVITE INCIDENT SACRIFICING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO’S ONLY SIN IS
TO CRY FOR JUSTICE AN INDEPENDENCE.

WITH TH CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CAVITE INCIDENT, WE WANT TO

REITERATE THREE MAIN POINTS THAT SUPPORT OUR CLAIM.

FIRST- THE SEVERITY OF WHAT PROMPTED THE REVOLUTIONARIES TO EXECUTE

THEIR PLAN. LABOR ISSUES AND FALE PROMISES ARE NOTHING BUT
INSUFFICIENT GROUNDS TO SAY THAT THE CAVITE INCIDENT IS A MUTINY

SECOND- BY MERE INVESTIGATING ITS ROOT CAUSE. THE ABOLITION OF THE

PRIVELEGES OF THE LABORERS OF THE CAVITE ARSENAL OF EXEMPTION FROM
PAYING TAXES AND POLY Y SERVICIO IS JUST ONE CAUSE, HOWEVER THERE
ARE A GREATER AND OTHER CAUSES. AS STATED IN THE ACCOUNT OF JOSE
VIDAL, SPANISH REVOLUTION WHICH OVERTHREW A SECULAR THRONE,
INFLUENCES FROM AMERICAN PUBLICIST AS WELL AS DEMOCRATICAL AND
REPUBLICAN BOOKS ABOUT GAINING INDEPENDENCE FUELED THE DESIRE OF
THE NATION IN ACHIEVING FREEDOM. TO SAY, THEY CANNOT WITHSTAND,
THEY CANNOT BEAR A NATION RUN BY UHUMANE AND UNJUST COLONIZERS.

LASTLY- EVEN DURING THE TIME OF GENERAL LA TORRE, THERE ARE ALREADY
INFORMATION THAT A GREAT UPRISING WOULD BREAK AGAINST SPANIARDS
AND THAT ALL WOULD BE ASSASSINATED, INCLUDING THE FRIARS. IT WAS
AGAIN TOWARDS THIS GOAL OF GAINING INDEPENDENCE THAT FILIPINOS AND
OTHER NATIVES WORKED WITH NATIVE CLERGY AND WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF
SEARGEANT LA MADRID THAT THEY MADE COMMON CAUSE AGAINST THE
ENEMIES OF THEIR MOTHER COUNTRY. THUS, IT IS PLANNED AND WELL
PLOTTED REVOLUTION.

THUS, THE TEAM REMAINS FIRM THAT THE INCIDENT IS A GREAT CONSPIRACY,
A REVOLT AGAINST SPANISH COLONIALISM.