The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant)
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The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)
Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant)
Philippines; Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946
Luzón 3,575,001 223,506 3,798,507
Panay 728,713 14,933 743,646
Cebu 592,247 592,247
Bohol 243,148 243,148
Negros 439,559 21,217 460,776
Leyte 357,641 357,641
Samar 222,002 688 222,690
Mindanao 246,694 252,940 499,634
"I think the above table makes clear the enormity of the injustice
I am now trying to crucify. Without stopping to use your pencil,
you can see that Mindanao, the island where the 'intractable
Moros' Governor Forbes speaks of live, contains about a half
million people. Half of these are civilized Christians, and the
other half are the wild, crudely Mohammedan Moro tribes. Above
Mindanao on the above list, you behold what practically is the
Philippine archipelago (except Mindanao), viz. Luzón and the six
main Visayan Islands. If you will turn back to pages 225 et seq.,
especially to page 228, where the student of world politics was
furnished with all he needs or will ever care to know about the
geography of the Philippine Islands you will there find all the
rocks sticking out of the water and all the little daubs you see
on the map eliminated from the equation as wholly unessential to a
clear understanding of the problem of governing the Islands. That
process of elimination left us Luzón and the six main Visayan
Islands above as constituting, for all practical governmental
purposes all the Philippine archipelago except the Moro country
Mindanao (i.e. parts of it), and its adjacent islets. Luzón and
the Visayan Islands contain nearly 7,000,000 of people, and of
these the wild tribes, as you can see by a glance at the above
table constitute less than 300,000, sprinkled in the pockets of
their various mountain regions. Nearly all these 300,000 are quite
tame, peaceable and tractable, except, as Governor Forbes suggests,
they 'might possibly mistake the object of a visit.'" [41]
This is all very well unless you take the Judge at his word and turn
to the page of the census report referred to, but if you do this
a rude shock awaits you, for instead of the table above quoted the
following is the table which you will find:--
Table 1.--Total Population, Classified as Civilized and Wild, by
Provinces and Comandancias.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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