Note 11 — To the Brave Sons of the Philippines
Reading edition
Rizalʼs brother and sister were keeping (in 1904) the “Dimas Alang” restaurant, 62, Calle Sacristia, Binondo (Manila). It is so named after the pseudonym under which their distinguished brother often wrote patriotic articles.
One of the ten annual official holidays, or feast days, appointed by the Civil Commission is “Rizal Day,” December 30.
The ₱2 banknote of the new Philippine currency bears a vignette of Dr. Rizal.
The Manila Province of Spanish times is now called Rizal Province and with it is incorporated what was formerly the Mórong District. Probably one-third of the towns of the colony have either a Plaza de Rizal, or a Calle de Rizal; it is about as general as the Piazza di Vittorio Emanuele throughout Italy.
A public subscription was open for about three years to defray the cost of a Rizal monument to be erected on the Luneta Esplanade (Ins. Gov. Act No. 243). By March 7, 1905, a total of ₱103,753.89 had been collected, including the sum of ₱30,000 voted by the Insular Government.
One is led to wonder what róle in Philippine affairs Rizal would have assumed had he outlived the rebellion.