A Summary of the Lete Article
 

“In the April 15, 1892 issue, an article by [Eduardo de] Lete entitled, ‘Redentores de perro chico’ appeared, a crude satire on ‘Iluso I,’ the great patriot of Villailusa, who urges the people to rise against the tyrants and to procure liberty.  To the objection that they lack arms, money, organization, he replies with disdain that none of these are necessary to the true patriot, but as for himself, ‘I ought not to fight!  My life is sacred and my mission of a higher nature!’  If they do not go forth, he proclaims, ‘… I will curse your love for the soil which gave you birth; I will call you voluntary slaves; I will spit in your faces and retire to a solitary wilderness to bewail in deeply-felt elegies the misfortunes of my enslaved country.’  When a few deluded wretches take him at his word, they end up on the gallows or in exile, while he, who has shown his patriotism by orating, sits in solitary grandeur, proclaiming: ‘I am reserved for greater enterprises!  I am the only prophet, the only one who loves his country as it should be loved!’”

Source:  John S. Schumacher, The Propaganda Movement: 1880-1885 (Manila: Solidaridad Publishing House, 1973), page 247.