[6] Ibid.
[7] Table of Areas, Census, 1903, vol. i., p. 263.
[8] Table of Populations, ib., vol. ii., p. 126.
[9] Total of these six in large type 20,418 square miles, say roughly 20,500.
[10] Total of these last three in smaller type 9114 square miles.
[11] There is a large sugar estate on Mindoro, supposed to contain over 60,000 acres or, say, ninety odd square miles, which in 1911 figured in a congressional investigation of certain charges against Professor Worcester, a member of the Philippine Commission, but this is wholly separate from the original problem of public order.
[12] The exact figure is 36,292. Philippine Census, vol. i., p. 263.
[13] 499,634, Philippine Census, vol. ii., p. 126.
[14] The semi-civilized Moros of Mindanao live mostly in the interior, and have a crude form of Mohammedanism. The civilized Christian Filipinos of Mindanao live mostly on the littoral.
[15] This was said in no mere speech. Speeches are often misquoted. It was a letter signed by the foremost man of this age, Mr. Roosevelt, written September 15, 1900, accepting the nomination for the Vice-Presidency. (See Proceedings of the Republican National Committee, 1900, p. 86.) Yet it represented then one of the many current misapprehensions about the Filipinos which moved this great nation to destroy a young republic set up in a spirit of intelligent and generous emulation of our own.