Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work for the information...

The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna and flora, and their ...

It should not be under the control of the authorities of the Philippine Islands, for it should be undertaken as a national work and subject ...

It is not probable that the survey would be completed in a less period than that of eight or ten years, but it is well that it should be beg...