It is only fair to say that Winthrop made a very good judge. There used to be current in the Philippines a story that Governor Taft had said, in more or less humorous vein: "Gentlemen, I'm somewhat of an expert on judges. What you need in a judge is"--counting with the index finger of one hand on the fingers of the other--"firstly, integrity; secondly, courage; thirdly, common sense; and fourthly, he must know a little law." Winthrop's integrity, courage, and common sense were beyond all question. It could hardly have been otherwise. He came of a long line of sturdy and distinguished men, the first of whom had come over in the Mayflower days to the Massachusetts coast. And, he did know a little law. But the manner of his appointment is none the less illustrative of how much quicker, Governor Taft could make and publish a law than any of his fellow despots [428] over on the mainland of Asia, considering how slow-moving all their various grand viziers were, compared with Fergy, and his corps of stenographers. Having now given, I hope, a more or less sympathetic insight into what absolute rulers our governors in the Philippines have been, in the very nature of the case, from the beginning, let us observe the change of tone of the government, after the reign of the first ended, and the reign of the second began. CHAPTER XVIII GOVERNOR WRIGHT--1904 The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard. Kipling's White Man's Burden.