Mr. President. if I may be pardoned for speaking of anything included in my personal experience in the Philippines. that my observation of that ieople satisfied me that they were a very far superior people to what I supposed they were before I went there. They are in some respects far superior to any other Asiatic people I have ever seen. They certainly have a very much higher regard for the outward observance of the decencies and modesties of life. as we understand them and as we observe them. immeasurably more so. than any other Asiatic race which it has ever been my fortune to see. What is the cause of that I do not know. unless it is the ameliorating influences of Christianity upon them. for it is a fact. Mr.
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Filipinos are superior to other Asiatic people in their regard for decency and modesty.