 | Hamilton Mercer Wright - Philippines - 1909 - 562 pages
...won the affection and respect of the Filipino people. He has fulfilled a great variety of functions of the utmost advantage in securing the loyalty of...implanting the ideals of Western civilization among them." how to lay out city streets and provide for the proper drainage of them; encourages the people to plant... | |
 | Hamilton Mercer Wright - Philippines - 1909 - 548 pages
...won the affection and respect of the Filipino people. He has fulfilled a great variety of functions of the utmost advantage in securing the loyalty of the inhabitants to the sover? eignty of the United States, and implanting the ideals of Western civilization among them."... | |
 | Paul H. Kratoska - Asia, Southeastern - 2001 - 456 pages
...from house to house persuading the parents of the children to send them to school . . . they . . . drilled and equipped boys' brigades and organized...implanting the ideals of western civilization among them.8 During the last half of the nineteenth century, Americans had been teaching loyalty to the United... | |
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... Spanish friar."7 At the same time, they were obliged to conciliate the native priest or Spanish friar, to prod a lethargic municipal president (mayor) and town-council into action, and sometimes to go from house to house persuading the parents of... 