As regards population, Arizona has 122,931. It is hardly proper to call either Panay with a population of 743,646, Cebu with 592,247, Negros with 460,776, Leyte with 357,641, Bohol with 243,148 or even Samar with only 222,690, a mere Arizona, and New Mexico with 195,310 is also a bit behind.
Luzón really has an area of 40,969 square miles and a population of 3,798,507.[24] What Blount is pleased to call “the tail to the Luzón kite,” is made up as follows:—
| Island | Area (Square Miles) | Population |
| Samar | 5,031 | 222,690 |
| Negros | 4,881 | 460,776 |
| Panay | 4,611 | 743,646 |
| Leyte | 2,722 | 357,641 |
| Cebu | 1,762 | 592,247 |
| Bohol | 1,411 | 243,148 |
| Totals | 20,419 | 2,620,148 |
Even so, the tail is a trifle long and heavy for the kite, but if we are going to compare Luzón with “the Southern Islands,” by which Blount can presumably only mean the rest of the archipelago, why not really do it? The process involves nothing more complicated than the subtraction of its area and population from those of the archipelago as a whole.
| Area (Square Miles) | Population | |
| Philippines | 115,026 | 7,635,426 |
| Luzón | 40,969 | 3,798,507 |
| Difference | 74,057 | 3,836,919 |
Performing this operation, we discover that the tail would fly away with the kite, as Luzón has less than half of the total population and only a little more than a third of the total area.
To compare the area or the population of one large island with those of individual small ones, in determining the relative importance of the former in the country of which it makes up a part, is like comparing the area and population of a great state with those of the individual counties going to make up other states.
Blount resorts to a similar questionable procedure in trying to show the insignificance of Mindoro and Palawan. There are an island of Mindoro and a province of Mindoro; an island of Palawan and a province of Palawan. In each case the province, which includes numerous small islands, as well as the large one from which it takes its name, is much larger and more populous than is the main island, and obviously it is the province with which we are concerned.
Even if Blount wished to limit discussion to the Christian natives commonly called Filipinos, his procedure is still wholly unfair. Of these there are 3,575,001 in Luzón and 3,412,685 in the other islands. In other words, the Filipino population is almost equally divided between the two regions.