This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...said that the course proposed by the President and involved in the treaty of peace, is unjust. It is contrary to the Declaration of Independence, which asserts that the just powers of states are ' derived from the consent of the governed." Of course all intelligent Americans accept the doctrine of the Declaration of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...said that the course proposed by the President and involved in the treaty of peace, is unjust. It is contrary to the Declaration of Independence, which asserts that the just powers of states are ' derived from the consent of the governed." Of course all intelligent Americans accept the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence. But it must not be forgotten that this is a sweeping assertion of a universal principle. The difficulty consists in its application. There has never been a time when the principle has been in perfect operation since the independence of the nation was achieved. How shall the application of the principle be secured in the Philippines? By sailing away and leaving them to anarchy and self-destruction? By handing them over to the tyranny of nations that, on our departure, will immediately begin the struggle for their capture? Or by taking control, preserving order, prescribing just laws, setting up schools, teaching letters, morals, and the broad and wholesome ideas of ethical and religious freedom which the Pilgrims brought to our shores? I leave it for you to answer. It is said that we are attempting an impossible task. We shall have to deal with an unassimilable population. We have had no experience in governing colonies and we have no wisdom of statesmanship that is equal to the perplexing problems which will be presented. Of course we cannot make white men of black men. We cannot change Malays into Aryans. But anthropological science, and the careful study of the habits and mental characteristics of races, are demonstrating the truth of the Apostle's declaration that' 'God hath made of one blood all races of men," and that while there is an ineradicable difference between the Aryan, the Negro, and the Mongolian, there is ...
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