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material. Nevertheless, we am compared by a fact; and, every whenever us
you criticize above the policy to this time it persecutes; we am satisfied with an investigation
as to what we have to propose in place of him. We am guests to stop us
guilt that finds with others, and to suggest some feasible alternative
policy us.
To this we owe, therefore, in beauty, you are addressed. It is, in mine
you judge, useless to try to bring only on the discussion in the
negative form. How opponents of an incipient policy we owe, in place of
thing we object, proposes anything positive, or we have to abandon the
field. Accepting the alternative, I now want to suggest a positive
policy for the consideration of those that you/they feel as we feel. I desire Your
you judge on him.
There it has, it seems to me, is a lot "Duty" inactive, "Mission,"
and "he/she Calls" you speak on the subject of our recent acquisition of "Islands
over the Sea", and the necessity to adopt some policy, commonly
described as "Imperial", in to treat with them. This policy is, in the
more people you lie that favor him/it to indirectly be modelled on the,
policy till now so it pursued with success under rather similar
the conditions of Great Britain. It involves, as I tried to sharpen out in the
Lexington carpets me I have assigned, the abandonment or inversion of everybody
the fundamental principles of our government since his/her origin, and of
the foreign policy that we have undertaken till now. This, I submit, it is
absolutely not necessary. Another and policy of substitute, purely American,
how contradistinguished from the European or British, known as
"Imperial", policy, can quickly be formulated.
This American policy essentially both would be based on our cardinal
political principles and our recent foreign experiences. It is commonly
disputed that, having destroyed the existing government in Cuba, I Bring
Rico and Philippines, we am taken a political responsibility there,
and it is under a moral obligation to provide another government in place
of what has stopped existing from our action. What has been our