[118] It was published in Ghent. The title-page bears this imprint: “Gent: Boekdrukkerij F. Meyer-Van Loo, Vlaanderstraat, 67. 1891.” Rizal was now able to defray from his own means the cost of publication. The Madrid newspaper, “El Nuevo Régimen,” published in October, 1891, “extensive extracts” from the novel; so did “La Publicidad” of Barcelona. Not a line of it was printed in the Philippines until 1900. Four years later it was translated into Tagalog. [119] “Filipinas dentro de Cien Años,” in “La Solidaridad,” 1889–90. We note that when Rizal discusses the possibility of future independence for his people he sets it as a century hence. We need not take him literally, nor on the other hand need we say his title was merely hypocritical and he was insidiously inciting his people to think of immediate independence; we shall be fairer to survey his writings as a whole, probably reaching the conclusion that the independence of his people was constantly in his mind, but sober reason warned him to restrain his and their youthful impatience on that subject. Blair and Robertson, “The Philippine Islands,” Vol. LII, pp. 202–203. [120] In his pretty little romance, “Mariang Makiling,” he utters this protest against forced military service in the Philippines and indicates the effect it had on the people: “Meanwhile, the time of the Spanish army’s conscription came. God knows the young men dreaded it, and how their mothers hated it! Youth, home, family, feelings, and sometimes honor itself, good-bye! Seven or eight years of such soldier life was brutalizing. The military despotism relied upon the lash. Such a prospect seemed to the youth a long night that would sap away the fairest portion of his life. In it would be horrible nightmares, and from it he would awake old, useless, corrupted, bloody, and cruel. So dreaded was the draft that some have been known to cut off their two fingers in order to exempt themselves from military service. Others pulled out their front teeth (in the days when the cartridge had to be bitten off). Still others fled to the mountains and became bandits. Not a few even committed suicide.”—Dr. Craig’s translation. [121] Retana, pp. 181–182. [122] “French Composition Exercises,” by José Rizal, B.A., Ph.M., L.C.M. (Madrid), Postgraduate student in Paris, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Berlin and London. Our copy is published by the Philippine Education Company, Manila, 1912. [123] Craig, “Rizal as a French Student,” printed as an Appendix to the “French Composition Exercises.” [124] “La Indolencia de los Filipinos,” translated by Dr. Craig, Manila, 1913. [125] Pages 11–12. [126] Page 13. [127] Page 15. [128] Page 17. [129] Page 18. [130] Page 22. [131] Page 23. [132] Page 26. [133] Page 26. [134] Page 27. [135] Page 30. [136] Page 37. [137] Page 38. [138] “The Outlook for the Philippines,” Chap. X.