Chapter XVI

Governor Taft--1903 403-436

Shows divers serious insurrections in various provinces amounting

to what the Commission itself termed, in one instance, "a reign of

terror"--situations so endangering the public safety that to fail

to order out the army to quell the disturbances was neglect of

plain duty, such neglect being due to a set policy of preserving

the official fiction that peace prevailed, and that Benevolent

Assimilation was a success.

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