Note 3 — Chapter XVII · Governor Taft, 1903 (Continued)

The average public man in the United States would not feel “nat’ral” unless intermittently bedewed with steam from the exhaust valve of the soul of some “outraged citizen,” through the medium of the public press. But in the Philippines a public man occupying a conspicuous position with the government may be very generally detested and actually not know it.3 The American in the Philippines, with all his home connections severed, might as well send his family to the poor-house at once as to come out in a paper with an interview or speech,—even supposing any paper would publish it—which, copied by the papers back in the United States, would embarrass the National Administration’s Philippine policy in any way. The same applies to talking too freely for the newspapers when home on a visit.