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The President--2
President Roxas is determined to carry out a program of
increasing percentage of crops given to tenants, buying large
estates and reselling them to individual tenants, resettling land-
less farmers in sparsely settled areas of the Philippines, abolish-
ing usury, stimulating development of small industries in over-
populated areas, promoting agricultural cooperatives, and advising
farmers on the latest scientific methods and furnishing implements
to increase production.
At the request of the Roxas administration, the Congress of
the Philippines has already reported out an agrarian legislation.
The bill provides for the revision of cropsharing alloting 70 per-
cent to tenants and 30 percent to landlords. The government believes
that the passage of this measure will go a long way towards settling
the dispute over the division of rice crops between tenants and land-
lords, thus minimizing, if not totally eliminating, one source of
social unrest.
The press reports attacks on villages resulting in the killing
and injuring of helpless persons and children. However, these are
rare occasions and are not regularly recurring events as some people
in the United States believe. The disorders are exaggerated out of
all proportion in American magazines, and, of course, in the American
public mind. The military police command has strict orders to respect
civil rights and protect all law-abiding citizens, but to bring to
justice anyone who breaks the law be he a Huk or not.
Trusting that this letter will clarify some of the misleading
reports and with assurances of my gratefulness for whatever action
you may deem proper to take thereon, I remain,
Very respectfully yours,
Successity
PIOSDADO M. YAP
Editor and Publisher
DMY:mmv
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