Updated: FAST BACKWARD: Davis’ 1930 visit in Davao
The name Dwight Filley Davis Sr. may not ring a bell to most people but to tennis aficionados he is remembered as the tennis player who founded in 1900 the Davis Cup, a global tilt that has so far produced a doubles champion for the Philippines. He was also the country’s American governor-general after leaving his position as the US secretary of war.
Davis, a keen bystander, made two interesting comments during his trip, namely the utter neglect of the natives by the government, described as the “blackest page in American history in the Philippines,” and the land grabbing of indigenous lands. Without delay, he relayed his observations to Honorio Ventura, then interior secretary under the American administration.
The idea of creating reservations was seen by Davis as a way of stopping the incursion by Japanese investors in regions in and around the gulf of Davao. The creeping intrusion was viewed as “an international problem,” and the reservations were “a decent measure in behalf of the aborigines.” His observations were first-hand, and he got them from the nightly huddles he had with the tribes along the wilderness.
Targeting land-grabbers, consequently, resulted in the hunting of Japanese who were poaching of tribal clearings. The journal even cited an incident where a land grabber was ambushed:
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