[64] The witness might have added that Blanco as a mason did more than "know" of it: he took no steps to counter-act it, till circumstances demanded that harsh measures should be taken to maintain national honor. [65] In plain English, this is a lie and no one could know it better than the witness. [66] By an element. Even would-be-president Bryan has his followers here. [67] In other words: he allowed a certain wealthy and influential class of people to lead him around wherever they would, by the nose. [68] This statement is the result of either ignorance or malice. (See note 97, 98.) This account also materially differs from the "faked up" story of Legarda. How little some people know of the truth when they do not wish to tell it! [69] This is another. Now that Tavera and Legarda are side by side in the U. S. Commission they might compare their testimony with advantage: it might aid them to preserve somewhat of the truth in future. [70] It would be interesting to know just how many of the late insurgents who now hold position of importance under the Government, are following up this piece of advice of Aguinaldo. [71] Domestic: i. e., made for household use, for cutting up meat, cutting down bamboos, and in fact for every use for which a knife or chopper is needed. [72] Castillo y Jimenez; El Katipunan ó el filibusterismo en Filipinas: pp. 128-129. [73] That is men of the lower classes, laborers. [74] It is difficult to determine whether such statements are due to ignorance or to malice. The real truth of the situation is that although the friar came to the Philippines to perform sacerdotal duties and preach the Gospel, his beneficial influence was not confined to the mere preaching of the Gospel. "What most honors the whole membership past and present of the Religious Orders is the intense zeal shown in the temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of their parishioners. To merely defeat and drive out the bad that was in them was not sufficient, for Satan finds mischief for idle hands, and when one devil is driven out of a man he roams around seeking other devils with whom he returns and re-enters the soul and "the last state of that man becomes worse than the first." So to thoroughly carry out their christianizing and civilizing purpose they did their best to instruct their converts to occupy their time in the fields, in the building of houses, of churches, of structures of all kinds necessary. They taught them to be self-supporting and to build up happy homes around them. The few industries, if the little then done by the natives in the way of manual labor can be classed as industry, that existed among the people at that time were copied from the Chinese and Mohammedan traders who visited and traded with them. These industries however were but crude as a rule; and moreover the connection with these anti-christian influences had to be cut for the moral protection of the indian and therefore the friar