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principle and precedent, if natural or historical from what it has
the beginning lain to the foundation of our American polity. It doesn't do
you try the hypocritical contradiction in terms, to pretend to
you raise a people in a condition same-that it sustains through the
process of principal-sequence of "guardianship." It appeals our historian
experiments, while applying to introduce the conditions the lessons of Hayti, Mexico,
and Venezuela. In to treat with those cases, we didn't find, a great
erect army or a harbor necessary enormous soldier; and, if not then, because now?
Because such difference between Philippines and Hayti? It is greater Cuba
or more next to us that Mexico? When, in expectancy they asks therefore, to us that that
course and policy us Anti-imperialists it proposes, our answer should be
what we propose to pursue toward the islands of Antilles and the
Philippines the same course of common-sense and really American policy that
it was from us till now I persecute with such signals the success in the cases of
Hayti, Mexico and Venezuela, all lived by people equally unfit for
self-government, and geographically very more next to us. We propose
to guarantee them against intervention of out, and, above all, from
"guardianship", and it does them walking to learn to walk alone.
This, I submit, it is so frequently not only an answer to the put question
to us but a positive policy that it follows established precedents, and, that that
it is more, purely American, as distinguished by an European or British,
policy and precedents.
I remain, etc.,
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
_Hon. Carl Schurz,
16 E. 64 road, City._ in New York
FOOTNOTES:
[1] "men evidently, were not born equal in physical strength or in mental
ability, in the beauty of form or health of body. The difference or the inequality
in these respects the law of the creation is. But this inequality is in no
particular incoherent with civil equality or politics and complete.
"The equality declared by our fathers in 1776 and it made the principle
law of Massachusetts in 1780, witnessed _Equality the Law_. His/her object