[16] Report of Philippine Commission for 1907, pt. 1, p. 195.
[17] See Report of Philippine Commission, 1908, pt. 1, p. 62.
[18] Tract. You speak of the small farmer’s “late of hemp” in the Philippines as you do of his “patch of cotton” in the United States.
[19] A picul is a bale of a given quantity—weight. “Breaking out a picul of hemp” is analogous, colloquially, to “picking a bale of cotton.”
[20] See Congressional Record, December 5, 1905, p. 103.
[21] See Report of Philippine Commission, 1907, pt. 1, p. 215.
[22] Macbeth, Act V., Sc. 8.