What Shall We Do with Our Dependencies?: The Annual Address Before the Bar Association of South Carolina, Delivered in Columbia, January 16, 1903 (Cla

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Excerpt from What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies?: The Annual Address Before the Bar Association of South Carolina, Delivered in Columbia, January 16, 1903The question which now confronts the American people, never to be settled till it is settled right, is whether these conditions shall continue. What shall be our permanent policy toward these dependent peoples? No more impor tant question ever engaged our attention, and we should con sider it carefully and dispassionately, as Americans, and not as Republicans or Democrats, for we must all suffer alike the consequences of any mistake. It becomes us to study all the ethical and political conditions of our problem, to gather all the light that we can from the experience of others, and not fancy that we have a native genius for gov erning our fellow-men which has been denied to other nations. We may be sure that the essential qualities and tendencies of human nature are the same, whatever the race to which a man belongs and whatever the color of his skin, and in these qualities lie causes which under like conditions produce like effects, whether the scene be set in Asia, Africa, or Europe, and whether the time be now or two thousand years ago.Above all, we must dare to look the truth in the face. We gain nothing by deceiving ourselves. We cannot change the facts by refusing to see or hear them, nor will any mis representation of ours bend the laws which govern-mankind and attach to our actions their inevitable consequences. If we cannot justify what we have done and what we propose, let us at least be brave enough to admit it.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.