No leader on either island is known to have communicated with any leader on the other; no fanatical follower ever left Samar for Leyte or Leyte for Samar so far as we are informed.
For convenience of administration the two islands were grouped in a single command after the army was requested to take over the handling of the disturbances there, in cooeperation with the constabulary.

The trouble ended in 1907 and both islands have remained quiet ever since.

The same causes would again produce the same results now or at any time in the future, and they would be then, as in the past, the outcome of the oppression of the weak by the strong and without other political significance.

Under a good government they should never recur.
Many circumstances which did not exist in 1902 and 1904 made it feasible to use the army in Samar and Leyte during 1905 and 1906.

The high officers who had exercised such sweeping powers during the insurrection had meanwhile given way to other commanders.