Our New DepartureG.H. Ellis, 1901 - 43 pages |
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... population of savages , we should have the right to govern them as we saw fit , because they would obviously be incompetent to govern themselves . This means that you would decide for your fellow - man without consulting him , first ...
... population of savages , we should have the right to govern them as we saw fit , because they would obviously be incompetent to govern themselves . This means that you would decide for your fellow - man without consulting him , first ...
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... constitutions , and have been admitted as States when their population has become sufficient . At every step the inhabitants have been American citizens volun- tarily going into unsettled districts , and there organizing free 9.
... constitutions , and have been admitted as States when their population has become sufficient . At every step the inhabitants have been American citizens volun- tarily going into unsettled districts , and there organizing free 9.
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... population is established , which otherwise might have re- mained at home ; but the savage is not governed so well . He may naturally think that a government of his own , however poor , which lets him live , is better than a more ...
... population is established , which otherwise might have re- mained at home ; but the savage is not governed so well . He may naturally think that a government of his own , however poor , which lets him live , is better than a more ...
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... population ; coal and other mineral deposits ; their harbor and commercial advantages ; and , in a naval and com- mercial sense , which would be the most advantageous . " Some very of peace . commercial considerations seem to have ...
... population ; coal and other mineral deposits ; their harbor and commercial advantages ; and , in a naval and com- mercial sense , which would be the most advantageous . " Some very of peace . commercial considerations seem to have ...
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... population — a single tribe out of eighty or more inhabiting the archipelago . We are asked to transfer our sovereignty to a small minority in the islands , without consulting the majority , and to abandon the largest portion of the ...
... population — a single tribe out of eighty or more inhabiting the archipelago . We are asked to transfer our sovereignty to a small minority in the islands , without consulting the majority , and to abandon the largest portion of the ...
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Page 26 - As long as the insurrection continues the military arm must necessarily be supreme. But there is no reason why steps should not be taken from time to time to inaugurate governments essentially popular in their form as fast as territory is held and controlled by our troops. To this end I am considering the advisability of the return of the Commission, or such of the members thereof...
Page 5 - Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of the equal rights of men as I have, in part, stated them; ours began by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious.
Page 27 - Beginning with the 1st day of September, 1900, the authority to exercise, subject to my approval, through the Secretary of War, that part of the power of government in the Philippine Islands which is of a legislative nature is to be transferred from the military governor of the islands to this commission, to be thereafter exercised by them in the place and stead of the military governor, under such rules and regulations as you shall prescribe, until the establishment of the civil central government...
Page 5 - When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Page 18 - That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in said islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such entitled to the protection of the United States...
Page 40 - What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of kingcraft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.
Page 43 - If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties.
Page 18 - That all grants of franchises, rights, and privileges or concessions of a public or quasi-public nature shall be made by the executive council, with the approval of the governor, and all franchises granted in Porto Rico shall be reported to Congress, which hereby reserves the power to annul or modify the same.
Page 40 - Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will — whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent...
Page 26 - Islands become immediately necessary, and the military government heretofore maintained by the United States in the city, harbor, and bay of Manila is to be extended with all possible dispatch to the whole of the ceded territory.