ABSTRACT
If Jose Rizal had organized a prayer meeting or a branch of the Young Men's Christian Association these nervous folk would have seen in it only treason, stratagems, and spoils. On the Filipinos the effect was different. To the deliberate judgment of the intelligentsia the plan of the league appealed as the first practical suggestion of relief through peaceful agitation. At Santiago guard was mounted upon the mild reformer and man of peace as if lie had been some ferocious bandit captured red-handed and likely to burst his bars. The next day a decree was issued ordering his exile to Dapitan, a town on the northeastern coast of the island of Mindanao. Each in turn came to Dapitan warned against the perilous prisoner there and therefore bristling with dislike; each went away swearing he was the prince of good fellows and sorry for his fate.
