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Redefining Criminality: Gambling and Financial Expediency in the Colonial Philippines, 1764–1898

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Greg Bankoff
Greg Bankoff
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“This consuming cancer”, wrote Governor-General Camba of gambling in the preamble to an edict dated 7 March 1838, “that destroys the fortune of many families, encourages sloth, hinders the sources of public wealth, perverts good faith, corrupts the people's morals and leads them to degradation and misery. Unfortunately the vice has spread prolifically in this rich soil”. Spanish authorities held gambling to be both morally reprehensible and economically detrimental, yet official recognition was extended to an activity that could not be eradicated and from which the colonial state derived considerable financial benefit. The definition of criminality in respect to gambling, therefore, became dependent on the inability of the state to enforce its own regulations and the exigencies of financial demands. This article will examine the popularity of cockfighting and other forms of gambling in the Philippines, the extent of official ambivalence towards these sports, and the motives behind colonial policy. In the process, Gusfield's concept of the “moral passage”, whereby once tolerated behaviour is redefined as deviant and treated as criminal, will be shown to have application in reverse. Gambling was progressively legalized during the late 18th and 19th centuries as the state profited from such activities.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , September 1991 , pp. 267 - 281
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1991

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21 A measure of the passion for gambling in the Philippines can be gauged from a comparison of the revenue derived from cock-fighting in New Spain. In 1810 the respective colonial exchequers derived 40,141 pesos from the sport in the Philippines and 45,000 pesos from New Spain, a country with over twice the population. See: de Comyn, Tomas, The State of the Philippines in 1810 (Manila: Filipiniana Book Guild, 1969; originally published in 1820), p. 77 and footnote 19Google Scholar.

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55 The particular laws and articles in question include: law 15, title 23, book 12 of the Novisima Recopilación; article 260 of the Penal Code of 1848; article 267 of the amendments to that Code in 1850; and article 358 of the amendments to that Code in 1870. See: Berriz, , Diccionario, p. 528Google Scholar.

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64 Marryat, “Borneo”, p. 133.

65 “Oficio del Governador de Cavite, dando parte de haver sorprendido en aquel Puerto una Casa de juego de Monte, y pide se declare la multa que cada jugador debe de pagar”, Cavite.

66 Article 6 of the regulations of 1838 declared null and void all gambling debts and obligations in excess of 50 pesos. “Bando of Governor-General D. Andres Garcia Camba”, Manila, 7 March 1838.

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77 President Aguinaldo blamed cockfighting for the ruinous plight of provincial towns. Artigas, y Cuerva, , Historia, p. 376Google Scholar.