Vol. XVI, No. 4 WASHINGTON ' April, 1905 



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MATHOMAL 

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A REVELATION OF THE FILIPINOS 



The Surprising and Exceedingly Gratifying Condition of Their 

 Education, Intelligence, and Ability Revealed by the 

 First Census of the Philippine Islands, and the 

 Unexpected Magnitude of Their Resources 

 and Possibility for Development 



The following article is a summary of the report of the Censzis of the Philippine 

 Islands by General f. P Sanger, Director, and Messrs Henry Gannett a?id Victor H. 

 Olmstead, Assistant Directors, which is published by the United States Bureau of the 

 Census April 8. The report makes four large handsome volumes, comprising about 

 3,500 pages a?id containi?ig 280 illustrations and go maps a?id colored diagrams. It 

 gives the most comprehensive and able description of the people and geography of the 

 islands that has yet appeared. Unfortu?iatcly the edition ivas limited from lack of 

 funds to ?,ooo copies, which were exhatisted even before publication. Through the 

 courtesy of General f. P. Sanger, Director, the National Geographic Magazine 

 republishes the principal results of the Census, and also a large member of the exceed- 

 ingly beautiful pictures zvith which the report is illustrated. 



THE details of the census of the 

 Philippine Islands will undoubt- 

 edly surprise us all, for the re- 

 port shows that the condition of the Fil- 

 ipinos is much superior from every point 

 of view, in education, ambition, capac- 

 ity, and possessions, than has been gen- 

 erally supposed. The census was taken 

 in March, 1903, and is the first system- 

 atic collection of Filipino facts that has 

 been made. As it was directed by con- 

 servative men, there can be no question 

 that the statements reported are correct. 

 The work was under the general super- 

 vision of General J. P. Sanger, Director, 



and Messrs Henry Gannett and Victor 

 H. Olmstead, Assistant Directors, who 

 had made such a success of the Amer- 

 ican censuses of Cuba and Porto Rico. 

 These three gentlemen, with the coop- 

 eration of Governor Taft, have per- 

 formed an achievement of which we 

 may justly be proud. The word census 

 in the Philippines was originally the 

 synonym of everything repulsive, for all 

 that it meant to the natives was a basis 

 for more taxation. Through the tactful 

 diplomacy of General Sanger, however, 

 the feeling of the Filipinos was com- 

 pletely changed, and all of them seem 



