History of Philippine press / Carson Taylor.

48 History of the Philippine Press
publication of some sort while the greater percentage of the
people must still get their news of the great round world by
word of mouth.
Newspaper publishing will undoubtedly be one of the
largest business fields in this country. With the spread of
education and the English language among the people, the
circulation of newspapers should increase rapidly. Twenty.
eight years of American occupation here has greatly accela,
rated the progress of democratic ideals and principles, and
it will not belong before Filipino public opinion will be great.
ly invigorated by the increase of newspaper reading and cir.
culation among the general masses of the population.
Among the Filipinos who are now active in the newspaper business, who are destined to go far in the development of modern journalism in the islands and who have not
been previously mentioned in this article are Pedro Aunario,
Carlos Ronquillo, Carlos P. Romulo, Manuel V. Villa-Real,
Alejandro Roces, Jr., Cipriano Cid, Bernardo P. Garcia, Modesto Farolan, Antonio H. Escoda and Urbano J. Velasco.