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The Philippines Past and Present
Peace and Prosperity.
This chance photograph showing General Emilio Aguinaldo as he is to-day, standing with Director of Education Frank L. Crone, beside a field of corn raised by Emilio Aguinaldo, Jr., in a school contest, typifies the peace, prosperity, and enlightenment which have been brought about in the Philippine Islands under American rule.
The Philippines Past and Present
By
Dean C. Worcester
Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 1901–1913;
Member of the Philippine Commission, 1900–1913
Author of “The Philippine Islands and Their People”
Dean C. Worcester
Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 1901–1913;
Member of the Philippine Commission, 1900–1913
Author of “The Philippine Islands and Their People”
In Two Volumes — With 128 Plates
Volume I
New York
The Macmillan Company
1914
All rights reserved
Volume I
New York
The Macmillan Company
1914
All rights reserved
Contents
Vol. I
Chapter Page I. View Point and Subject-Matter 1 II. Was Independence Promised? 18 III. Insurgent “Coöperation” 67 IV. The Premeditated Insurgent Attack 127 V. Insurgent Rule
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and the Wilcox-Sargent Report 152 VI. Insurgent Rule in the Cagayan Valley 170 VII. Insurgent Rule in the Visayas and Elsewhere 206 VIII. Did We Destroy a Republic? 242 IX. The Conduct of the War 270 X. Mr. Bryan and Independence 295 XI. The First Philippine Commission 301 XII. The Establishment of Civil Government 325 XIII. The Philippine Civil Service 360 XIV. The Constabulary and Public Order 378 XV. The Administration of Justice 400 XVI. Health Conditions 408 XVII. Baguio and the Benguet Road 449 XVIII. The Coördination of Scientific Work 488
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List of Illustrations
Vol. I
- Peace and Prosperity Frontispiece
- Fort San Antonio Abad, showing the Effect of the Fire from Dewey’s Fleet 6
- Felipe Buencamino 14
- The San Juan Bridge 20
- Insurgent Prisoners 28
- Typical Insurgent Trenches 36
- Inside View of Insurgent Trenches at the Bagbag River 42
- General Henry W. Lawton 50
- Feeding Filipino Refugees 58
- The First Philippine Commission 64
- The Second Philippine Commission 72
- The Return of Mr. Taft 80
- Governor-general James F. Smith with a Bontoc Igorot Escort 88
- Governor-general Forbes in the Wild Man’s Country 96
- The Philippine Supreme Court 104
- An Unsanitary Well 112
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@12077@[email protected]#p016-2" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">A Flowing Artesian Well 112 An Unimproved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila 120 An Improved Street in the Filipino Quarter of Manila 128 Disinfecting by the Acre 136 An Old-style Provincial Jail 144 Retreat at Bilibid Prison, Manila 154 Bilibid Prison Hospital 160 Modern Contagious Disease Ward, San Lazaro Hospital 168 Filipina Trained Nurses 176 Staff of the Bontoc Hospital 184 A Victim of Yaws before and after Treatment with Salvarsan 192 The Culion Leper Colony 200 Building the Benguet Road 208 Freight Autos on the Benguet Road 216 The Famous Zig-zag on the Benguet Road 224 A Typical Baguio Road 232 One of the First Benguet Government Cottages 240
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@12077@[email protected]#p033" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Typical Cottages at Baguio 248 A Baguio Home 256 The Baguio Hospital 264 Government Centre at Baguio 272 A Scene in the Baguio Teachers’ Camp 280 The Baguio Country Club 286 The Bureau of Science Building, Manila 306 The Philippine General Hospital 314 The College of Medicine and Surgery, Manila 322 An Old-style Schoolhouse, with Teachers and Pupils 330 A Modern Primary School Building 338 Old-style Central School Building 346 Modern Central School Building 346 Typical Scene in a Trade School 354 An Embroidery Class 362 Philippine Embroidery 370 Filipino Trained Nurses 380 A School Athletic
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Team 386 Filipina Girls playing Basket-ball 394 University Hall, Manila 402 Bakídan 410 In Hostile Country 418 Travel under Difficulties 426 Dangerous Navigation 434 A Negrito Family and their “House” 442 A Typical Negrito 446 Typical Kalingas 452 Settling a Head-hunting Feud 458 Entertaining the Kalingas 464 An Ifugao Family 470 Ifugao Dancers 478 An Ifugao Dancer 484 Ifugao Rice Terraces 492