Describes divers matters, including a certificate made March 28, 1907, declaring that a state of general and complete peace had prevailed for the two years immediately the preceding. Describes also the formal opening of First Philippine Assembly by Secretary of War Taft in October, 1907, and his final announcement to them that he had no authority to end the uncertainty concerning their future which is the corner-stone of the Taft policy of Indefinite Tutelage, and that Congress only could end that uncertainty. Chapter XXII Governor Forbes--1909-12 558-570 Suggests the hypocrisy of boasting about "the good we are doing" the Filipinos when predatory special interests are all the while preying upon the Philippine people even more shamelessly than they do upon the American people, and by the same methods, viz.: legislation placed or kept on the statute-books of the United States for their special benefit, the difference being that the American people can help themselves if they will, but the Philippine people cannot. Chapter XXIII "Non-Christian" Worcester 571-586 Professor Worcester, the P. T. Barnum of the "non-Christian tribe" industry, and his menagerie of certain rare and interesting wild tribes still extant in the Islands, specimens of which you saw at the St. Louis Exposition of 1903-4; by which device the American people have been led to believe the Igorrotes, Negritos, etc., to be samples of the Filipino people. Chapter XXIV The Philippine Civil Service 587-594 Showing how imperatively simple justice demands that Americans, who go out to enter the Philippine Civil Service should, after a tour of duty out there, be entitled, as matter of right, to be transferred back to the Civil Service in the United States, instead of being left wholly dependent on political influence to "place" them after their final return home. Chapter XXV Cost of the Philippines 595-603 In life, and money, together with certain consolatory reflections thereon. Chapter XXVI Congressional Legislation 604-622 Showing how a small group of American importers of Manila hemp--hemp being to the Philippines what cotton is to the South--have so manipulated the Philippine hemp industry as to depress the market price of the main source of wealth of the Islands below the cost of production; also other evils of taxation without representation. Chapter XXVII The Rights of Man 623-632 Industrial slavery to predatory interests and physical slavery compared. Chapter XXVIII The Road to Autonomy 633-646