Pension Bureau, work of the, 686 People and the Government, 494 government by the, 663 plain, prosperity of, 608 responsibility of the, 441 right of the, to water, 418 Performance and Promise, 413-414 Pershing, Captain, services of, 690 Perez y Sotos, proposal by, 722 Peru, 705 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 211 Philbin, Eugene A., 657 Philippine cable, 625-627 Commission, 81 independence impossible, 93 policy, critics of the, 296, 318 Philippine War, 21, 39, 59, 85, 92, 217-218, 399, 488 aim of the, 314 conduct of, 59-67 difficulties of, 628 end of, 207, 316 hardships of, 313 justified, 98 McKinley on, 311 necessity of, 92, 204 object of, 64 outcry against, 311 veterans of, 591 Philippines, the, 59, 60, 82, 83, 185, 203, 204, 206, 210, 211, 223, 237, 311, 312, 313, 393, 394, 408, 410, 577, 580, 590 aims in the, our, 568 Americanism in the, 628 amnesty declared in, 96, 627 anarchy in, danger of, 569 appointments in the, 569 appropriation for the, 315 armies in the, 63 arms in, triumph of, 628 army in, praise for, 628 army in, reduction of, 94 banditti in the, 571 benefits from, 98 benefits of United States rule in, 92, 93 brigandage in the, 313, 315 business in the, 572 cable to, need of a, 573 cattle disease in the, 315 -China cable, 626 civil government in the, 95, 207, 314, 409, 569, 627 conditions in the, 568 constructive statesmanship in, 629 course in, our, unexampled, 569 cruelties in the, 64, 205, 217-218, 313, 628 development of the, 572 difficulties in the, 568 difficulties of war in, 93-94 duty in, our, 238, 569 “errors” in the, our, 570 fear in, our only, 570 Filipino officials in, 95 franchises in the, 572 freedom withdrawn in, 570 freest Asiatic country, 208 good government in, 210 Governors of, 21 holding the, 628 improved conditions in, 589 industrial enterprises in, 572 insurrection in the, 571 interests of, 67 ladrones in, 94, 207 laws made in the, 96 laws in, triumph of, 628 legislation for the, 571 liberty in the, 315 merit system in, 593 military rule in the, 314 mission, our, in the, 394 naval base, in, 691 new era in the, 627 officials in, choosing, 679 Oregon men in, 419 peace in the, 218 perplexing problems in, 238 policy in, proper, 318, 627 progress in, 679 prosperity in, 410, 568, 679 representative government, 96 results of “liberating,” 66, 92 restoring peace in, 312 retention of, necessary, 569 self-government in the, 93, 206, 570 situation in the, 567-573, 627 soldiers in the, 206, 628 statesmanship in the, 97 Taft’s services to, 410 tariff arrangements with, 679 tariff reduction to the, 296, 315 wealth of, natural, 572