De Alexander: “More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.”

A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....

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.

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....