Excerpt from Address of William H. Taft, Secretary of War: Delivered at the Millers' Convention in St. Louis, Mo;, May 30, 1907 Down to the last day of Spanish rule, there was not in this Island, containing a million people, a single building construct ed for or dedicated to public instruction, and the enrollment of pupils was but There are to-day in this Island, 97 such buildings and the enrollment of pupils has reached the number of In the last year of Spanish rule there was ex pended in gold for public education. Under the present government, there is expended a total of each year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.