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The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912

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By James H. Blount
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The author, drawing on service as an officer and later as a judge during the American military occupation of the Philippines, narrates events of the occupation and analyzes its political, legal, and economic consequences. He describes military actions including the capture of native leaders, administration and courts under U.S. authority, and the effects of American legislation on local industries such as hemp, sugar, and tobacco. Arguing that the people are capable of self-government, he criticizes colonial policy and special-interest motives, warns of strategic and moral costs of indefinite control, and urges a formal legislative declaration and a timely transfer of sovereignty to a native republican government.

T

Taft, W. H., “we blundered into colonization,” 44, 291;
original reluctance to go to Ph., 291;
Roosevelt-Taft confession to Carnegie of desire to be “rid of” Ph., 612–13;
Taft commission of 1900, genesis of idea of, 288;
situation on its arrival at Manila, 282–7;
its initial attitude, 291–4;
belittles work of army, 299;
insists enemy friendly, 301–5;
ignores army views, 306;
“peace at any price” policy, 307;
Governor, 1901–2, 345–402;
prematurity of civil government, 360;
disorders which followed, 371–402;
last year as Governor, 1903, 403–445;
Surigao disorders, 414–16;
reconcentration law, 416–422;
Misamis insurrection, 422–3;
Albay “reign of terror,” 423–5;
magnitude and details of, 426–9;
“Black Hole of” Albay, 430–4;
Taft unpopularity with Americans in Ph., explained, 437;
Iloilo speech, 438;
“bullyragging” Americans, 439;
absoluteness of his power, 439–445;
becomes Secretary of War, 446;
St. Louis speech, 1907, 357;
opens Ph. Assembly, 1907, 550;
address, 552;
Friar lands, splendid work in matter of, 563;
likewise as to Ph. finances, 565;
and public education, 566

Tariff Act of 1902, export tax features, 605 et seq.

Tarlac, MacArthur enters, 239

Tarlac province, area and pop., 233

Tayabas province, area and pop., 263;
disorders in, 1901–2, 372

Taylor, J. R. M., Captain, 200

Taylor, Wallace C., Colonel, 516

Tila pass, battle of, 248

Tillman, Senator, 169

Tiño, General, surrenders, 341

Tobacco, Congressional legislation concerning, 604 et seq.

Trade, 604 et seq.

Treaty of Paris, 121–138;
how we came to pay the $20,000,000, 136–8

“Tribes” and tribal state fetich, 295–8, 566–9, 575–81

Twenty-ninth Inf., U. S. V., 266

U

Underwood, Oscar W., 286;
speech against Philippine export tax, 618

Union province, area and pop., 252

V

Vanderlip, F. A., position on Ph., in 1898, 49, 123

Vigan, 247

Villa Simeon, 112–15;
diary of Aguinaldo’s flight, 240, 246

Visayan Islands, 228;
seditious state in 1905, 505

Volunteers of 1898, 194;
of 1899, 270–8, 280

W

War with Filipinos, progressive bitterness of, 198 et seq.

“Water-cure,” 202–5

Way out, the, 647 et seq.

Wealth of Ph. agricultural, 607

Wheaton, General, 234–8

White man, tropics, effect on, 208–9, 549, 590–3

Whitsett, G. P., 361

Wilcox-Sargent trip, 107–120

Wild tribes, 295–8, 566–9, 575–581

Wildman, U. S. Consul, Hong Kong, early dealings with Aguinaldo, 19

Williams, U. S. Consul, Manila, 29, 34, 77–78, 345

Wilfley, Atty. Gen., 114, 502

Winship, B., Lieut., 76

Winship, Emory, Lieut., U. S. N., off Malabon, 207

Winslow, Erving, 648

Winthrop, Beekman, 443

Wood, General, 288

Worcester, D. C., 571 et seq.

Wright, Luke, E., Governor:
1904, 445–498;
1905, 499–514

Y

“Yankees of Philippines,” Ilocanos so called, 247

Young, R. W., Major, 212

Young, General, 235 et seq., 251

Z

Zambales province, area and pop., 256

Zapote River, battle of, 213–14