prevails in the Moro Province, Cavite, the mother of ladrones in the
video feet Spanish video feet times, is so permeated with the traditional sympathy of video feet the people
for ladronism
as to make it difficult to stamp out the disease. Batangas
was only disturbed by reason of the fugitive ladrones from Cavite, Samar
was thrown into disturbance by the uneducated and partly savage peoples
living in video feet the mountains, who, having been given by the municipal code more
power than they were able to exercise discreetly, video feet elected municipal
officers who abused their trusts, compelled the people raising hemp to sell
it at a much video feet less price than it was worth, and by their video feet abuses drove their
people into resistance video feet to constituted authority. Cavite and Samar are
instances of reposing too video feet much confidence in the self-governing power of a
people. The disturbances have all now been suppressed, video feet and it is hoped that
with video feet these lessons local video feet governments can be formed
which will secure quiet
and peace to the deserving inhabitants. The incident is another proof of
the fact that if there has been any error as regards giving self-government
video feet in the Philippines video feet it has been in the direction of giving it too quickly,
not too slowly. A year from video feet next April the first video feet legislative assembly for
the islands will be held. On the sanity and self-restraint of this body
much will depend so far as the future self-government of the video feet islands is
concerned.
The most encouraging feature of the whole situation has been the very great
interest video feet taken by the common people in education and. the great increase in
the number of enrolled students in the public schools. The increase was
from 300,000 to half a million pupils. The average attendance is about 70
per video feet cent. The only limit upon the number of pupils seems to be the capacity
of the government to furnish teachers and school houses.
The agricultural conditions of the islands video feet enforce more strongly than ever
the argument