Chapter XVI

Governor Taft--1903 403-436

Shows divers serious insurrections in various provinces amounting to what the Commission itself termed, in one instance, "a reign of terror"--situations so endangering the public safety that to fail to order out the army to quell the disturbances was neglect of plain duty, such neglect being due to a set policy of preserving the official fiction that peace prevailed, and that Benevolent Assimilation was a success.