-----------+--------------+------------- Year | Amount in | Per capita | circulation | circulation -----------+--------------+------------- | Pesos | | | 1913 | 50,697,253 | 5.53 1914 | 52,575,118 | 5.63 1915 | 51,284,907 | 5.40 1916 | 67,059,189 | 6.86 1917 | 102,580,314 | 10.20 1918 | 131,151,883 | 12.67 1919 | 146,576,956 | 13.87 1920 | 124,589,240 | 11.56 1921 | 103,661,820 | 10.01 1922 | 97,217,468 | 9.03 -----------+--------------+------------- ELECTORS.--The total number of electors registered in the election of June 3, 1919, was 717,295 and the votes cast was 672,722, which is a very fine percentage when compared to the interest in elections shown in other countries. In the elections of 1912, 248,154 voters registered, of which 235,786 voted. Of the number of voters registered in 1919, 407,346 possessed educational qualifications, while only 81,916 were educationally qualified in 1912. It should be noted that the Philippine voters must have either property or educational qualifications, so that these figures show the progress of the people in political matters and in education in general during the last few years. In the elections of June, 1922, there were 824,058 voters registered. The minority party has always accepted the decision of the majority, unless it thinks that the election has been vitiated by some illegal act, in which case it takes the matter up with the courts for decision. The practice of revolutionary countries where defeated minorities take the law in their own hands or use violence against the triumphant party, or utilize every other means to hinder the working of the government, has never been resorted to in the Islands. XIII. THE FILIPINOS IN CONTROL [Original Policy] The Second Philippine Commission sent out to the Philippines by President McKinley on March 16, 1900 were given the following instruction, among others: "That in all cases, the municipal officers who administer the local affairs of the people are to be selected by the people and that wherever officers of more extended jurisdiction are to be selected in any way, natives of the Islands are to be preferred, and if they can be found competent and willing to perform their duties they are to receive the offices in preference to any others."