"--Blount, p. 297.
Also:--
"But we proceeded to ram down their throats a preconceived theory that
the only road to self-government was for an alien people to step in
and make the ignorant masses the _sine qua non_."--Blount, p. 546.
Also:--
"Of course the ignorant elecorate we perpetrated on Samar as an
'expression of our theoretical views' proved that we had 'gone too
fast' in conferring self-government, or to quote Mr. Roosevelt, had
been 'reposing too much confidence in the self-governing power of
a people,' if to begin with the rankest material for constructing a
government that there was at hand was to offer a fair test of capacity
for self-government."--Blount, p. 546.
[356] P.I.R., 499. 1 Ex. 134.
[357] Ibid., 206. 1.
[358] Ibid., 1124. 2.
[359] Ibid., 204. 6.
[360] P.I.R., 206. 6.
[361] P.I.R., 674. 1.
[362] _Ibid._, 206. 3.
[363] P.I.R., 206. 3.
[364] On July 7, 1898, the secretary of the revolutionary junta
in Mindanao, in writing to Aguinaldo, closed his letter with the
following formula: "Command this, your vassal, at all hours at the
orders of his respected chief, on whom he will never turn his back,
and whom he will never forswear. God preserve you, Captain General,
many years." P.I.
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