When the Filipino Nationalists decided upon a trial of strength with Governor-General Wood they probably under-estimated the strength of the man they had chosen te oppose. haps hardly their fault that they made such a mistake, for their ambitions in the direction of independence had been unduly fostered by previous Governors whose ideals had carried them Beyond the range of practical politics. In Governor-Generat Wood, however, they encountered a man whose sense of values has never been shaken by sentimental bias, and it is this feature of his character which has Ied to the grave political events which have recently been a feature of life in the Philippines. One of the most outstanding of these was the wholesale resignation of his Cabinet, but so far from_ stampeding the Governor-General from his position it simply made him enunciate it the clearer, and in announcing his acceptance of these resignations he practically said that the Cabinet had done nothing but attempt to thwart him all the time. The ex-Cabinet Ministers then set afoot a movement for his recall, and that also left him unmoved, although he must have known how his opponents would pull the strings in America and how much influence they would exercise with sentimentalists there. Now Governor-General Wood has again come into the open and stated plainly that the present Moro rising is part
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