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Title: Recollections of full years Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943 Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing After Image: A MORO DATU WITH HIS RETINUE, AND THE FAVORITE WIFE OF A DATU WITH HKR M.UDS-IN-WAITING RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS officer of high rank in charge in the dual capacity of Gov-ernor and Commanding General of Troops in the MoroProvince. This system was developed to a point where ahigh state of efficiency obtained in the government to thecomplete satisfaction of nearly everybody. To solve theproblem of juramentado, or religious fanatic outbreaks, ageneral order for the disarmament of Moros had to beenforced, but only a comparatively small number of nativestook part in the armed resistance. For all of them it washard, no doubt, to have to surrender their beloved and time-honoured weapons, but the wisest among them recognisedthe necessity of obedience for the sake of the general good.If this had not been so it would have been vastly more dif-ficult to make the order effective. These wise ones areto-day everywhere busy upholding the American policy ofestablishing markets and schools and hon

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