The expenditures of the Spanish government for all postal and telegraphic service for the fiscal year 1895 amounted to $484,960.50. Those of the Bureau of Posts for 1912 were $1,072,684.48. No statement of the Spanish revenues can be found. Our revenues for 1912 were $627,724.70. The personnel of the Spanish service for 1895 shows only 31 positions paying salaries of more than $500 per year, most of which were filled by Spaniards. There are now 96 positions paying salaries of more than $500 per year filled by Filipinos. Filipino post-office employees receive salaries 50 to 100 per cent larger than those of employees of similar rank during the Spanish régime. Think how much these figures mean in increased opportunity for employment of Filipinos, and in increased communication not only between the people in the islands but between them and the outside world. In a number of instances the telegraph lines which are controlled by the Bureau of Posts are supplemented by provincial telephone systems, which are of great value in maintaining quick communication with towns not reached by telegraph wires. Such lines are especially useful in the Mountain Province, Mindoro, Palawan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the sub-province of Bukidnon, where messengers who travel by land have to go on horseback or on foot. The following table shows the growth of the postal and telegraph business of the Islands:-- Post-Office and Telegraph Statistics -----------+-----------------------+----------+------------------------ | Money Orders Sold | | Telegraph Receipts +------------+----------+ +-------------+---------- Fiscal | | Increase | Postage | | Increase Year | | (+) or | Receipts | | (+) or | Amount | decrease | | Amount | decrease | | (-) | | | (-) -----------+------------+----------+----------+-------------+---------- | | Per cent | | | 1900 | $1,526,310 | | $117,848 | | 1901 | 1,514,435 | - 1 | 122,833 | | 1902 | 1,854,927 | +22 | 126,375 | | 1903 | 2,842,587 | +53 | 132,445 | | 1904 | 3,102,606 | + 9 | 121,714 | | 1905 | 3,444,053 | +11 | 121,648 | | 1906 | 3,687,127 | + 7 | 198,583 |[163]$56,351 | 1907 | 3,229,446 | -12 | 198,546 | 118,360 | +110 1908 | 3,645,123 | +13 | 220,306 | 136,138 | + 15 1909 | 4,008,678 | +10 | 245,482 | 139,208 | + 2 1910 [164] | 4,890,835 | +22 | 282,317 | 168,402 | + 21 1911 | 6,132,582 | +25 | 313,549 | 184,555 | + 9 1912 | 7,425,173 | +21 | 349,407 | 236,679 | + 28 1913 [165] | 8,272,858 | + 6 | 380,942 | 283,305 | + 4