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Page 106 - That no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized.
Page 300 - The following observations of various provincial governors (mostly natives), applying to the population in their respective jurisdictions, may throw considerable light upon the character and circumstances of the people. " The people are of a cheerful and lively temperament, lovers of company, diversions, and pleasures. They preserve in its purity the faith and religion of their ancestors ; they are temperate in eating, modest in dress, and simple in manner. They are pacific, mild, respectful, hospitable,...
Page 106 - ... nobility shall be enacted, and no person holding any office of profit or trust...
Page 116 - IV. — The United States shall, during the term of ten years, counting from the interchange of the ratifications of the treaty, admit to the ports of the Philippine Islands Spanish ships and merchandise under the same conditions as the ships and merchandise of the United States.
Page 383 - '2. Should septic infection occur in any clean case subjected to operation in the Philippines, blame the technique, not the climate. " * 3. Successful attainment of the object for which the operation has been undertaken will follow careful and skillful surgery in the Philippines with the same regularity that we have been accustomed to observe in such work at home. " ' 4. Convalescence after surgical operations in the Philippines...
Page 86 - ... his social distinction. If we can give the Filipino husbandman a knowledge of the English language, and even the most elemental acquaintance with English writings, we will free him from that degraded dependence upon the man of influence of his own race which made possible not merely insurrection but that fairly unparalleled epidemic of crime which we have seen in these islands during the past few years.
Page 94 - They are an Oriental people, and the Oriental 04 A HANDBOOK OF THE PHILIPPINES believes in saying to the person to whom he is talking what he thinks that person would like to hear. That is the tendency of the race You graft on to that the Spanish tendency to superlatives, and a Filipino will talk to you in such language that if you do not weigh it in the light of this trait you are quite certain to misunderstand him and be misled by what he says. He thinks you will construe what he says through that...
Page 414 - The policy of the administration is the indefinite retention of the Philippine Islands for the purpose of developing the prosperity and the self-governing capacity of the Filipino people. The policy rests on the conviction that the people are not now capable of self-government, and will not be for a long period of time; certainly not for a generation, and probably not for a longer time than that, and that until they are ready for selfgovernment it would be a violation of trust for the United States...
Page 83 - The work of the teacher cannot be understood unless he is thought of as discharging the many-sided functions, other than religious, formerly the prerogative of the Spanish friar. Socially, and in his intellectual influence, he is the successor of the man who for centuries was the controlling influence in these primitive communities of the Philippines. He has been the quiet mediator of modern ideas, and far transcended the role of a mere pedagogue. He has won the affection and respect of the Filipino...
Page 131 - There are many millions of cubic feet of timber in these forests that should be cut in order to properly thin out the dense growth. For instance, where there are three or four trees -growing on a space required by one, that one so freed would put on more good wood each year than the four together.