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Industry Limited to Manila...
...Machinery, factories, and industry as they are commonly thought of by Americans, scarcely exist, and what there is of them is centered in Manila. There we have factories for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, for the refining of a portion of our raw sugar, and for the manufacture of hemp into cloth. But large scale industry is little known there. The development of the country has not reached that stage which requires...
...Manila, Governor General Leonard Wood turned his solid back on Manuel Quezon and the Collectivists howling in the Filipino Legislature and went off to look into the troubles of the Moros on the Island of Min- danao. Apparently he had forgotten the disputants behind his back. Apparently the War Department agreed perfectly that he should...
...controversies with General Wood which led to the recent break: "According to the Jones bill of 1910, the governor-general is the chief executive and should enforce all laws of the Filipino legislature. Under the civil service law passed by the Filipino legislature, the mayor of the city of Manila had the power of removing any city official, whose character was for any reason considered untrustworthy and who was not appointed to his position by the governor-general. Such an official, outside the jurisdiction of General Wood, was arrested and tried for bribery. Because of insufficient evidence...
...Filipino politics Mr. Guevara has been an eminent figure for many years. After studying law at the University of St. Thomas in Manila, an institution founded 25 years before the founding of Harvard University in 1636, he joined the Filipino insurgents against the Spanish government in 1897, and after the Spanish-American War he continued in the insurgent ranks as a colonel, now fighting the United States administration. When the insurrection was put down, he returned to private life...