Capitolo 15
Manila, in the Philippine archipelago and finally the city and some
adjacent territory was surrendered to us. An essay was negotiated then,
the power of Spain being broken completely under which she abandoned
all ask some sovereignty, not only on the island of Cuba the
original cause of war, but on the various other islands in the Philippine one,
as in the Indian Of the west, archipelagoes. These islands, in all mottos
being of the 1,200 to 1,500 in number, is not only besides inhabited from
natives and foreigners to the valued number of ten to twelve
million souls, but they contains the great cities and word of community
different languages, living the other laws under and having customs manners,,
and traditions completely otherwise from ours really, and what, in the case of the
Philippines, don't leave entrance to the assimilation. Situated also in the tropics,
they cannot gradually be colonized from American, with or without the
disappearance of the native population. The American can go only there
for provisional residence.
A completely new problem was so suddenly introduced to the people of the
The United States. On the one hand, you/he/she is affirmed, that, destroying
I govern Spanish in these islands, the United States has supposed
the responsibility for them, both to the inhabitants and the world. This
it is a moral obligation. On the other hand the work and commercial
allurements are contained out that it would conduct us to treat these islands
simply as a principle--the first installment--in a system of boundless
additional-territorial dependences and imperial expansion. With these
responsibility and obligations us here this evening we don't have anything to
face, some more than we have to do with the convenience or resulted probable
of the policy of colonial expansion, when he/she fairly adopted once and
it finally entered on. These will be in expectancy, but it are not yet,
historical questions; and we am inquiring only historical. Us,
therefore, any matter that that others can do, it has to try to withdraw himself/herself/themselves