Barcelona
He asks Rizal to tell the Filipino in Madrid not to be prejudiced against La Solidaridad – Need for unity and fraternity – Congratulates Rizal on Vision de Fr. Rodriguez – Asks for articles.
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Barcelona, 12 March 1889
MR. JOSE RIZAL
DEAR RIZAL,
I appreciate very much indeed your congratulation on my speech. I consider it the most valuable of the many I have received.
You must have received already the newspapers we sent you for the second time on account of the loss of the first ones.
I think you should write to the Filipinos in Madrid that they ought not to be prejudiced against La Solidaridad. What the Filipinos of Barcelona are precisely trying to bring about is the unity of views and the fraternity of all the Filipinos scattered in these regions. United we shall be worth much; separated, our enemies will laugh at us. I do not write them because they might suppose that I am the stone of discord. I am getting old, friend Rizal; I have no more ambition than the happiness of our dear home land.
Your articles are wanted for the issue on the 30th of this month, one on European and American politics and another on the Philippines. We should appreciate it very much if Regidor would write something for La Solidaridad on democratic topics or on whatever he wants. Suggest it to him in your name and mine.
I congratulate you on your La vision de Fray Rodriguez. I think that if that friar had an iota of shame, he would die of congestion upon reading it. I am telling you in advance that the association La Solidaridad is congratulating you officially for it. It is a resolution approved unanimously at a general meeting.
You know that I am as ever your friend and compatriot,
GRACIANO LOPEZ
03-370 [Reformists]