[12] Philippine Census, vol. ii., p. 9.
[13] These are the three main lines of cleavage, linguistically speaking. Nearly all the minor dialects are kin to some one of the principal three.
[14] Peasant’s hut, usually of bamboo, thatched with stout straw (nipa). It is the log cabin of the Philippines.
[15] By way of protest against this kind of belittling of the army’s work, General MacArthur says in his annual report (War Dept. Rept., 1900, vol. i., pt. 5, p. 60), “Such a narrow statement of the case is unfair to the service,” adding a handsome tribute, which might have come very graciously from the Commission had it felt so disposed, to “the endurance, fortitude, and valor” of his 70,000 men during the precise period while the Commission was filling the American papers with politically opportune nonsense about “Peace, peace,” when there was no peace.
[16] See Report of Secretary of War Root for 1900. War Department Report, 1900, vol. i., pt. 1, p. 80.
[17] See Report of Taft Philippine Commission of 1900, p. 17.
[18] War Department Report, 1900, vol. i., pt. 5, pp. 34–42.
[19] S. D. 435, 56th Cong. 1st Sess.
[20] Report U. S. Philippine Commission, November, 1900, p. 15.
[21] General Lawton was killed in battle in the hour of victory at a point only about twelve miles out of Manila, in the winter preceding the spring of 1900 in which the Taft Commission left the United States for Manila.