THE PHILIPPINES PAST AND PRESENT By DEAN C. WORCESTER Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 1901-1913; Member of the Philippine Commission, 1900-1913 Author of "The Philippine Islands and Their People" In Two Volumes -- With 128 Plates Volume II New York The Macmillan Company 1914 CONTENTS VOL. II CHAPTER PAGE XIX. Education 501 XX. The Exploration of Non-Christian Territory 532 XXI. The Government of Non-Christian Tribes 559 XXII. The Government of Non-Christian Tribes (Continued) 591 XXIII. Corrigenda 637 XXIV. Non-Christian Tribe Problems 660 XXV. Slavery and Peonage 676 XXVI. Murder as a Governmental Agency 730 XXVII. The Philippine Legislature 768 XXVIII. The Picturesque Philippines 792 XXIX. Rod, Shotgun and Rifle 806 XXX. Philippine Lands 829 XXXI. Philippine Forests 846 XXXII. Improved Means of Communication 861 XXXIII. Commercial Possibilities of the Philippines 884 XXXIV. Peace and Prosperity 911 XXXV. Some Results of American Rule 921 XXXVI. Is Philippine Independence now Possible? 933 XXXVII. What Then? 961 APPENDIX Instructions to the First Philippine Commission 975 Proclamation of the First Philippine Commission 977 Instructions to the Second Philippine Commission 980 Past and Present Organization of the Courts of the Philippine Islands 988 Present accepted Estimate of the Non-Christian Population of the Philippines 999 INDEX 1005 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. II