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The Problem in the Philippines

The Problem in the Philippines

Teller, Henry Moore
General Books

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151482781
ISBN13: 9781151482785
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FROM THE PHILIPPINE POINT OF VIEW. Is there one here who will say that he has no sympathy with the struggling Filipinos? Can anyone fail to sympathize with them when he sees death and destruction measured out to them and knows, as he must know, that those men believe at least that they are fighting for home and fireside, doing that which the whole world has declared to be a virtue of superior character. I may not agree with them. I may not believe that the great American people mean to subjugate and destroy those people. I may not believe, and do not believe, that the American people desire their subjugation or the destruction of their liberties. But we have not succeeded in convincing the Filipino that that is not our attitude. The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Lodge] tells us that those people must submit. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. ForAker] in impassioned terms declared to us that the American Army would stay there until every Filipino acknowledged its supremacy. He might have added, I suppose, until he either acknowledged its supremacy or went to his grave. Why are those men in arms against the United States? I could understand why Aguinaldo, an ambitious Asiatic, might take up arms against us, for he wanted power and he wanted the advantage that he could secure as the leader of the people. But what of the rank and file? What do the common Filipinos mean when they stand in battle before us and when they are ready to go to their deaths in the strife? Do they not mean that they are standing in defense of what they believe to be right? As an American I can not feel happy over the defeat of, and I can not myself wish that there should come disaster to, American arms. But I can not but respect the people who believe that we are attempting to subject them and pu...

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