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Guam, ceded to the U. S. by Spain, is 5.000 miles from San Francisco, 1,500 from Manila. Also ruled by the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain Henry B. Price, U.S.N. Cables and radio stations make Guam internationally important...
...Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery. It was inhabited by Moros ? bloodthirsty, polygamous, Mohammedan headhunters ? who lived in inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since retired into a policy of bad-tempered neglect. The Moros ran wild...
...indeed when the General reached Manila he soon discovered that he would be lucky if he could serve a short term without getting his foot painfully caught in the complicated traps of the island politicians. His predecessor's liberal application of the Jones Act (which promised eventual independence) had bred local corruption so crude it was almost laughable and, according to some, a state approaching governmental chaos. Characteristically, the General said nothing, but began, by long hours of toil, to change all that. A visitor noting in his library stacks of weighty tomes concerning the Islands asked when he intended...
...from Manila the cable flashed last week a speech which crowned perhaps the greatest triumph of the calm potency of Leonard Wood. The speech was from the lips of Emilo Aguinaldo. Concerning him, let it be remembered that in 1899 when the U. S. decided to hold the Philippines, he shot up a U. S. outpost and started an insurrection which lasted six times as long as the Spanish War, cost more than half as much, required 60,000 U. S. troops to quell...
...significance of Mr. Thompson's appointment is not in Manila, but in Washington. For the Philippine question has totally changed in the quarter century...