Government of the Philippine Islands

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Excerpt from Government of the Philippine Islands: Speech of Hon. N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, June 5, 1900This, Mr. President, is but a brief summary of our duty to the islanders, but in a larger and more comprehensive sense obliga tions, international in character, arise that we ought not to escape if we could and could not if we would. The moment that Dewey's victory at Manila was announced it was known that Spanish dominion and authority in that part of its territory was virtually at an end, and other nations had the right to look to us for the assumption of governmental control of the islands. If these duties and responsibilities did not then arise, certainly they did thereafter when Spain formally ceded to us this territory. To say that we should not have gone there, that we have no right there now, that it is contrary to the fundamental principles of this Government, is to beg the whole question. We did go there. And we Were there as the result of the declaration of war against the power that then owned the islands, and we went there because we believed it to be a point where we could successfully meet the enemy. The result has proved the wisdom of the course taken. And now, having suc ceeded, it can not be that we are under no obligations to anyone by reason of the position in which we find ourselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.