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Show KEEP THE PHILIPPINES. Senator Cannon Urates Tpon the President The r Retention. Washington, Aug. 20. Senator Cannon, Can-non, who has been in New York, paid a visit to the White House and had quite an extended interview with the president. He discussed the Philippine questioa with the president, frankly announcing announc-ing his sympathy with that policy in the far east which would not haul down for Spain's benefit the flag hoisted hoist-ed by Admiral Dewey's orders over this country "s latest conquests in the Philippines. He said that in his judgment judg-ment it would have been well to compel com-pel Spain, as a condition of peace, to relinquish her sovereignty, not only over Cuba and Porto Rico, but also over the chief colony in the far east. "We acquire at once," he added, "the island of Porto Rico, and upon the very threshhold of the establishment of a government in Cuba that island will come into our possession. By the time things are settled there the island will have become so far Americanized that the first act of free government there will be to attach itself to the United States. We will take the Philippines, and it is right that we should do so. It is the manifest destiny of this government to develop a great power on the Pacific. |