Note 9 — REFORMS NEEDED IN FILIPINAS
Reading edition
[Among the advantages derived from this arrangement will be that of sending out of the islands the many poor and useless Chinese who have been gradually multiplying there, and have been infecting the natives with their vices. It will even benefit the Chinese themselves, “who with two reals a day, which make 7½ dollars a month clear” (thus showing that Sunday labor was exacted), “can pay two pesos of tax and be exceedingly prosperous.”]9