2. The two stripes are royal blue and scarlet red
The white triangle has a golden sun representing the
country’s first group of provinces that started the Philippine
Revolution in 1896 against Spain
The 3 five-pointed golden yellow stars represent the country's
3 main regions - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao
In a state of war, the red and blue stripes switch positions
3.
4. Admiral
George Dewey
Emilio
Aguinaldo
William
Howard Taft
General Jacob
Hurd Smith
5.
6. ~OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS~
“I thought it would be a great thing to give a whole lot of
freedom to the Filipinos, but I guess now that it's better to
let them give it to themselves.”
Mark Twain, popular author and
humorist
“We were told that we needed Hawaii in order to secure
California. What shall we now take in order to secure the
Philippines?.… We shall need to take China, Japan, and the
East Indies, according to the doctrine, in order to „secure‟ what
we have. Of course this means that, on the doctrine, we must
take the whole earth in order to be safe on any part of it, and
the fallacy stands exposed. If, then, safety and prosperity do
not lie in this direction, the place to look for them is in the
other direction: in domestic development, peace, industry, free
trade with everybody, low taxes, industrial power.”
William Graham Sumner, laissez
faire liberal and Yale sociologist
