[19] The words quoted were used by Mr. Root in a speech delivered at Youngstown, Ohio, October 25, 1900.
[20] Sixty-six men and three officers were surprised at breakfast and cut off from their guns by several hundred bolo men who had come into town as unarmed natives under pretence of attending a church fiesta. Forty-five men and officers were killed after a desperate resistance. Twenty-four only were able to escape. War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 8.
[21] Governor Taft’s Report for 1901, War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 8.
[22] War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 208.
[23] Leviticus xvi., 10.
[24] War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 12.
[25] Senate Document 331, pt. 1, p. 86, 57th Congress, 1st Session (1902).
[26] War Department Report for 1900, vol. i., pt. 5, p. 59 et seq. Ibid., 1901, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 88 et seq.
[27] Report for 1901, p. 98.
[28] See Philippine Census, vol. ii, p. 123.