The CONQUEST of the PHILIPPINES

by the UNITED STATES

1898-1925

by

MOORFIELD STOREY

and

MARCIAL P. LICHAUCO

a nation to

Personally I think it is a fine and high tning for
have done such a deed our work in the Philippines) with such
a purpose. Beat we cannot taint it with bad faith. If we act so
that the native understerd us to have made a definite promise,
then we should live up to promise. The Phines, from a
this
military stand point, re a sece of weakness to The presen
administration smisel Blicitly to
go, and bits
action has rendered it difficult to hold them against any serious
foreign foe. These being the circumstances, the islands should at
an early moment be given their independence without any guaranty
whatever by us and without our retaining any foothold in them.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

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PREFACE

THIS book has been prepared in order to lay before the people of the United States the facts relating to the conquest of the Philippines.

The government of the United States rests upon the self-evident truths that "all men are created equal," that is, with equal political rights, and that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," or, in the words of Abraham Lincoln,-"No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle—the sheet anchor of American republicanism.'

As if anticipating what would be said in justification of the policy in the Philippines, the same great American said: "These arguments that are made that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying, that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow,-what are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for the enslaving of the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the

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