Chapter VIII

The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation 139-151

President McKinley's celebrated proclamation of December 21, 1898, cabled out to the Islands, December 27, 1898, after the signing of the Treaty of Paris on the 10th, and intended as a fire-extinguisher, in fact acted merely as a firebrand, the Filipinos perceiving that Benevolent Assimilation meant such measure of slaughter as might be necessary to "spare them from the dangers of" the independence on which they were bent.

## Chapter IX The Iloilo Fiasco 152-163

By order of President McKinley, General Otis abstains from hostilities to await Senate action on Treaty of Paris.

## Chapter X Otis and Aguinaldo (Continued) 164-185

Still waiting for the Senate to act.

## Chapter XI Otis and the War 186-223

Covering the period from the outbreak of February 4, 1899, until the fall of that year.

## Chapter XII Otis and the War (Continued) 224-269

From the fall of 1899 to the spring of 1900.

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