The Problem in the Philippines1902 - 80 עמודים |
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The Problem in the Philippines: Speech of Hon. Henry M. Teller, of Colorado ... <span dir=ltr>Henry M. Teller</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2017 |
The Problem in the Philippines: Speech of Hon. Henry M. Teller, of Colorado ... <span dir=ltr>Henry M. Teller</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2017 |
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עמוד 67 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
עמוד 13 - I am astonished ! — shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian.
עמוד 12 - ... mercenary aid on which you rely. For it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never!
עמוד 13 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature that noble Lord may entertain, I know not; but I know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
עמוד 13 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
עמוד 12 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
עמוד 13 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address — you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
עמוד 40 - We make no hypocritical pretense of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. While we regard the welfare of those people as a sacred trust, we regard the welfare of the American people first. We see our duty to ourselves as well as to others. We believe in trade expansion.
עמוד 22 - ... shall be a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both...
עמוד 13 - To preserve it, and not confirm that state of independence into which our measures hitherto have driven them, is the object which we ought to unite in attaining. The Americans, contending for their rights against arbitrary exactions, I love and admire.