Note 12 — Modern Manila
Reading edition
“Should we wish the Filipino people to judge of Americans by the drunken, truculent American loafers who infest the small towns of the Islands, living on the fruits of the labour of Filipino women, and who give us more trouble than any other element in the Islands? Should we wish the Filipino people to judge of American standards of honesty by reading the humiliating list of American official and unofficial defaulters in these Islands?”—Extract from Governor W. H. Taftʼs speech at the Union Reading College, Manila, in 1903, quoted in “Population of the Philippines,” Bulletin I, p. 9. Published by the Bureau of the Census, 1904.