The Taft Commission 282-344 Shows how the Taft Commission, born of the McKinley Benevolent Assimilation theory that there was no real fundamental opposition to American rule, lived up to that theory, in their telegrams sent home during the presidential campaign of 1900, and in 1901 set up a civil government predicated upon their obstinate but opportune delusions of the previous year. "The papers 'id it 'andsome But you bet the army knows." Chapter XV Governor Taft--1901-2 345-402 Shows the prematurity of a civil government set up under pressure of political expediency, and the disorders which followed. Chapter XVI Governor Taft--1903 403-436 Shows divers serious insurrections in various provinces amounting to what the Commission itself termed, in one instance, "a reign of terror"--situations so endangering the public safety that to fail to order out the army to quell the disturbances was neglect of plain duty, such neglect being due to a set policy of preserving the official fiction that peace prevailed, and that Benevolent Assimilation was a success. Chapter XVII Governor Taft--1903 (Continued) 437-445 Shows the essentially despotic, though theoretically benevolent, character of the Taft civil government of the Philippines, and its attitude toward the American business community in the Islands. Chapter XVIII Governor Wright--1904 446-498 Shows the change of the tone of the government under Governor Taft's successor, his consequent popularity with his fellow-country men in the Islands, and his corresponding unpopularity with the Filipinos. Shows also a long series of massacres of pacificos by enemies of the American government between July and November, 1904, permitted out of super-solicitude lest ordering out the army and summarily putting a stop to said massacres might affect the presidential election in the United States unfavorably to Mr. Roosevelt, by reviving the notion that neither the Roosevelt Administration nor its predecessor had ever been frank with the country concerning the state of public order in the Islands. Chapter XIX Governor Wright--1905 499-514 Shows the prompt ordering of the army to the scene of the disturbances after the presidential election of 1904 was safely over, and the nature and extent of the insurrections of 1905. Chapter XX Governor Ide--1906 515-523 Describes the last outbreak prior to the final establishment of a state of general and complete peace. Chapter XXI Governor Smith--1907-9 524-557