His approval of the Ku-Klux law, therefore, intensified a feeling already strained to bitterness, and although he administered the law with prudence, a physical contest occurred in the South and a political rupture in the North.
Alexander discusses the consequences of the Ku-Klux law, illustrating the tensions in post-Civil War America.
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A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....
Referring to the fraudulent practices, he said: "No one claims, no one believes, that I had lot or part therein, or previous hint or suspicion thereof.
In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....
He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.
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