[2] See Congressional Record of that date, p. 33.
[3] General Otis’s appreciation of such “aid” was thus expressed in his cablegram to Washington of June 4, 1899: “Negotiations and conferences with insurgents cost soldiers’ lives and prolong our difficulties.” Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1002.
[4] Address by Secretary of War Taft before the National Geographic Society at Washington, published in the official organ of that Society, National Geographic Magazine for August, 1905.
[5] Says General Chaffee in his annual report for 1902: “The intelligent element controlled the ignorant masses as perfectly as ever a captain controlled the men of his company.” War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 191.
[6] War Department Report, 1900, vol. i., pt. 5, p. 61.
[7] August 29, 1898, to May 5, 1900.
[8] Especially independence.
[9] Senate Document 331 (1902), pt. 1, page 50.
[10] A slander ignorantly repeated by the adverse report of the minority of the Insular Affairs Committee of the House, on the Jones Bill, introduced in March, 1912, proposing ultimate independence in 1921.
[11] See The Commoner, April 27, 1906.