Beautiful Philippines: A Handbook of General Information

Contents

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	Foreword				15
I.	Historical Background				17
		Discovery			17
		The Spanish Rule—A Tale of Wars and Uprisings			17
		Reforms in the 19th Century			18
		Last Decades of Spanish Rule—The Coming of the Americans			19
		Filipino-American War			20
		The establishment of Civil Government			20
II.	The Material Spain Found				21
		Power of Propaganda to Misrepresent			21
		Non-Christian Population			21
		Literacy			22
		Facts of Filipino Attainments in Pre-Spanish Days			22
			Religion, Alphabet, and Books		23
			Traders and Artisans		24
			Able Agriculturists		24
			Written and Unwritten Laws		24
			The Code of Calantiao		25
			Testimonies of Occidental Writers		26
		Progress During the Spanish Rule			27
			Schools and Colleges		27
			Filipino Record Abroad		28
			Opinions of Foreign Writers		28
		Background on Which America Had Built			29
III.	The First Philippine Republic				30
		Causes of Earlier Revolutions			30
		The Revolution of 1896			30
		The Pact of Biac-na-Bato			30
		The Republic			31
		The Governmental Machinery Set Up			31
		The Malolos Constitution—Its Salient Features			32
		Comments of Foreigners			34
IV.	Population of the Islands				37
		A Homogeneous People			37
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		Nueva Ecija Province—The Rice Granary of the Islands			85
			The Government Agricultural School at MuÑoz		86
		Bataan Province			86
			Attractions		86
			Historical		86
			Mariveles		87
			Mount Mariveles		87
		Zambales Province			88
			Naval Station at Olongapo and Fortifications on Grande Island		88
		Pangasinan—Second Largest Rice Producing Province			89
			Salt Making and Industries		89
			Historical Events		89
		The Mountain Province and Sub-provinces			90
			The Rice Terraces in Ifugao		91
			Gold Mining and Household Industries		92
		La Union and the Ilocos Provinces—Household Industries			92
		Abra Province			94
		The Cagayan Valley—The Tobacco Region			95
			The Cagayan River		95
		Isabela Province and the Town of Palanan			96
		Nueva Vizcaya Province—The Salt Incrusted Mountain			96
		Mindoro Province			96
			Mineral Deposits		97
			The Submarine Garden at Puerto Galera		97
		Palawan Province			97
			Iwahig Penal Colony		98
			Culion Leper Colony		98
			The Underground River		99
		Romblon Province—Marble Deposits			99
		The Visayas			99
			Samar, the First Island Discovered by the Spaniards		99
			Iloilo and Capiz—Beautiful Caves and Cliffs of White Coral Rock		100
			Negros Island—The Principal Sugar Producing District
		Autonomy			174
		Outstanding Achievements of the Filipinized Government			175
			Reorganization of Departments		175
			The Budget System Explained		177
			Public Improvements		177
			Agriculture and Taxation		178
			Public Order		178
			Education—System of Instruction		178
				Number of Pupils	182
				Number of Teachers	182
				Number of School Buildings	182
				Universities	182
			Sanitation—the Philippine Health Service		183
				Comparative Death Rate	184
			Local Autonomy		184
			Public Welfare—The Public Welfare Commissioner		185
			Administration of Justice		186
				Record of the Courts	186
			Government Enterprises—Object		187
				The National Bank	187
				The Manila Railroad	188
				The National Coal Co.	188
				The National Development Co.	189
XIV.	The Independence Movement				190
		Uprisings during Spanish RÉgime			190
		The Organized Movement			193
		The Philippine Assembly of 1907			193
		America’s Policy and Promise to the Filipinos			194
			Pronouncements of McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson		195
			Jones Law, the Formal Pledge that Independence Will Be Granted		196
			Executive Recommendation for the Fulfillment of America’s Promise		197
		Missions to the United States			197
			The Commission of Independence and Its Purposes		198
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