[6] The adverse minority report on the pending Jones bill, which bill proposes ultimate Philippine independence in 1921, is full of the old insufferable drivel about “tribes,” and of the rest of the Root views of 1900.
[7] See Report of U. S. Philippine Commission, 1907, pt. 1, p. 211.
[8] Part 1, p. 38.
[9] Report of Philippine Commission, 1907, pt. 1, p. 37.
[10] See President McKinley’s annual message to Congress of December, 1899, Congressional Record, December 5, 1899, p. 34.
[11] Provinces totalling about a million people.
[12] Report of U. S. Philippine Commission, 1905, pt. 1, p. 211.
[13] Report of Philippine Commission, 1907, pt. 1, p. 38.
[14] Ibid., 1906; pt. 1, p. 225.
[15] To be absolutely accurate, there are 688 people classified as “wild” in the Census figures as to Samar, and 265,549 are put down as civilized; the total of population being 266,237. All the 388,922 people of Leyte are put down as civilized. See Philippine Census, Table of Population, vol. ii., p. 123.