The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-07
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justly with the ISLANDS and the iuu .
ants thus given to our Care Whit ur,
precise pol cy shall be / do no know.
because l for one am not sufficient
informed AS to the conditions there to
be able to say what will be best to do,
nor, may add, do thins anyone is.
But | believe that we shall have the
wisdom not to incorporate those with
our body polite, or make their nhabit-
ants part of our citizenship, or ST their
labor alongside of ours and within cur
tariff to compete in any industry with
American workmen l believ. that we
shall have the courage MOTTO depart from
those islands fearfully, timidly, and un
worshily and leave them to anarchy
among themselves, to the brief and
bloody domination of some self-consti-
tuted dictator, and to the quick con-
quest of other powers. who will have
no such hesitation as we should feel in
crushing them into subsection by harsh
and repressive methods. 1t is for us to
decide the destiny of the Philippines,
not for Europe, and we can do it alone
and without assistance. | believe that
we shall have the wisdom, the self-res
traint, and the ability to restore peace
and order in those islands and to give
to their people an opportunity for self
government and for freedom under the
protecting shield of the United States
until the time shall come when they
are able to stand alone, if such thing
be possible, and if they do not them
selves wish to remain under our protec
ton. This is a great, a difficult, and u
noble task. believe that American
civilization is entirely capable Of full
filling it, and l should not have that
profound faith which now cherish in
American civilization and American
manhood if | did not think so.
During the campaign of last autumn
| said in many speeches to the people
of my State that could never assent to
hand those islands back to Spain; that
[ wanted no subject races and no vassal
states; but that we had by the fortunes
of war assumed a great responsibility
in the Philippines; that we ought to
meet it, and that we ought to give
those people an opportunity for free
dom; that we ought to protect them
from the rapacity of other nations ID
seek to uplift those whom we had freed.
From those views have never swerved
and believed then, as believe now,
that they met with the appreciation of
an overwhelming majority of the peo-
pie of Massachusetts. / believe those
results can be and will be obtained. 1
can not forecast the future as so ma W
others have been able to do. can but
proceed step by step, and the only step
| can see now is to ratlfy the treaty. for
in that way alone can we take The ,s-
lands from Spain and give ourselves
opportunity to deal with them and
bring peace and freedom to their in
habitants- In such mighty questions
as these think nothing is so vicious as
to be in hurry and attempt to dis
count the unknown future. Let us de-
termined the question that lie, nearest
our hand and then turn to the next.
Take now the other alternative. Sup
pose we reject the treaty and strike out
the clause relating to the Philippines
That will hand the islands back to
Spain; and can not conceive that any
American will be willing to do that.
Suppose we reject the treaty; what fol
lows? Look at it practically. We con.
tinue the state of war, and every sensi-
BILE man in the country, every bushes
interest, desires the reestablishment of
peace in law as well as in fact AT the
same time we repudiate the President
and his action before the whole world.
and the reputation of the President in
such matter as this is, to my mind,
the humiliation of the United States in
the eyes of civilized mankind and
brands us as a people incapable OF
great affairs or Of taking rank where
we belong, as one Of the greatest OF the
great world powers.
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