Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — NATIVES ARE IGNORANT. [ARTICLE]

NATIVES ARE IGNORANT.

Population of the Philippines Placed at Oalx 4,000,000. Prof. Knapp, special commissioner of the Department of Agriculture to the Philippines, has returned with a poor opinion of the Filipinos. He says Agninaldo is a much overestimated leader, and would sell oat his cause for a satisfactory price. The natives, he says, are ignorant, but are adepts in treachery and deception. Prof. Knapp contradicts the estimate of 10,000,000 population in the islands, basing his opinion on statements of the dominican fathers, who place the population at 4.000,000.