[1] Blount, pp. 296–297.

[2] This is a rather open threat to fight.

[3] Corrupt Spanish for “very bad American Government.”

[4] “Constitutional Government in the United States,” by Woodrow Wilson, Ph. D., LL. D., pp. 52–53.

Appendix

Instructions of the President to the First Philippine Commission

“Department of State,
“Washington, January 21, 1899.