her good suggestion for the school
authorities at home, where it is said that proper knowledge and care
would save the lives of a million infants a year.

Hardly less important than the school work has been the road-building
undertaken by the American officials. And in Philippine road work a
most excellent example has been set for the states at home, in that
the authorities have given attention not only to building roads but to
maintaining them after they are built. Too many American communities
vote a heavy bond issue for roads and think that ends the matter. In
the Philippines no such mistake has been made. "With the heavy rains
here," the Governor-General said to me, "our entire investment in a
piece of good road would be lost in four years' time if repair work
were not carefully looked after."

The system adopted for keeping up the roads is very interesting.
Everywhere along the fine highways I travelled over there were at
intervals piles or pens of crushed stone and other material for
filling up any hole or break. For each mile or so a Filipino is
employed--he is called a _caminero_--and his whole duty is to take a
wheelbarrow and a few tools and keep that piece of road in shape.

Prizes of $5000 each are also offered to the province that maintains
the best system of first-class roads, to the province that spends the
largest proportion of its funds on roads and bridges, and to the
province that shows the best and most complete system of second-class
roads.

That the Filipinos are unfit to face the world alone there can be
little doubt. As to whether it is our business in that {172} case to
manage for them is another question. The Filipinos are, like our
negroes, a child-race in habits of thought, whatever they may be from
the standpoint of the evolutionist. "I never get angry with them,
however much they may obstruct my plans," an American of rank said to
me, "for I look on them as children. We are running a George Junior
Republic; that's what it amounts to." Another American, who has had
some experience with the Assembly, said to me: "When you have
explained and reiterated some apparently simple proposition, they will
come to you a day or so later with some elementary question amazing
for its childishness." A large number of excellent measures for which
the Assembly has received the credit were really instigated by the
commission--"personally conducted legislation," it is called.

The Filipinos come of a rac