[48] P.I.R., 453. 2.
[49] P.I.R., 493. 12.
[50] Blount, p. 190.
[51] Taylor, 86 AJ.
[52] Blount, p. 175.
Chapter V
Insurgent Rule and the Wilcox-Sargent Report
The Good Book says, “By their fruits ye shall know them, whether they be good or evil,” and it seems proper to apply this test to the Insurgents and their government.
The extraordinary claim has been advanced that the United States destroyed a republic in the Philippines and erected an oligarchy on its ruins. Various writers and speakers who have not gone so far as this have yet maintained that Aguinaldo and his associates established a real, effective government throughout the archipelago during the interim between his return and the outbreak of hostilities with the United States.