MAGBANGON KA
ni Flavio Zaragoza Cano
Published 1918 in Makinaugalingon


Pagmata ka na, sa imo katulugon,
kag dungga ang madagmit nga mga tugon,
sining anak mong taga Kabatwan:

Nga bisan nagapuyo sa Manila,
Kun magpamuyayaw ang iya dila,
Wala sing linte nga nahadlukan...!


Makinaugalingon was a twice weekly Iloilo publication, in Visayan vernacular, registered to Rosendo Mejica on 1/13/1914. (Source: Page 60 of "History of the Philippine Press" by Carson Taylor, publisher of the Manila Daily Bulletin, Manila P.I. 1927)

Rosendo Mejica was the editor and publisher of Makinaugalingon, the name of which, "Partisan to one's own", symbolized its nativist commitment. (Page 48, History & Society in the Novels of Ramon Muzones, by Ma. Cecilia Locsin-Nava. Ateneo de Manila Univ. Press 2001)

(Courtesy of Cab@1)