Note 4 — Chapter XXII · Governor Forbes—1909–1912

And now let us consider the most supremely important part of Governor Forbes’s magazine article above quoted. The burden of the song of the adverse minority report on the pending Jones bill (looking to Philippine independence in 1921)4 is that because there are certain “wild tribes” scattered throughout the archipelago, in the mountain fastnesses, therefore we should cling to the present policy of indefinite retention with undeclared intention until the wild tribes get civilized. Governor Forbes’s article is an absolute, complete, and final answer to the misinformed nonsense of the minority report aforesaid. He says, apropos of public order: