Note 3 — Chapter XXIV · The Philippine Civil Service

In 1907, Mr. Fergusson reports on the same subject3: “Matters do not seem to be improving,” and that the Director of the Insular Civil Service informs him that “during the fiscal year there were five hundred voluntary separations from the service by Americans, of whom one hundred were college graduates.” He adds: “When the expense of getting and bringing out new men, and of training them to their new work is considered, the wastefulness of the present system is evident.”