Show TWO POINTS OF VIEW dr depew and colonel ingersol have both spoken on the subject of our policy with regard to the philippine islands the former believes we ought to retain them as a religious duty the latter thinks the so called law of the survival of the fittest demands of us to keep the prize dr depew said it beeme that god came to the conclusion that the horrible tyranny that was clouding the fairest portions of the earth for three hundred years must cease he has decreed it as clearly as if written in letters of fire strung in the clouds that we must teach our civilization to those who are falling under our protectorate as we would teach children ingersoll is quoted as follows there are other islands over which our flag now floats A certain class in this country are afraid that we will grow we can afford to grow of porto rico I 1 say keep not tor for the purpose of oppressing people but to enlighten them manila bay we have made too valuable f for or any one else to hold it is ours the inferior races must go the law of the survival of the fittest rules 11 what a df ference in premises and yet substantially the same name conclusion one maintains that our destiny is to bring the gospel of our civilization to a benighted race the other that we wipe them out as unfit to live the interior inferior races must go says the infidel |