Intermountain Catholic | 1899-10-19 | Page 4 | Local News |

Type	issue
Date	1899-10-19
Paper	Intermountain Catholic
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Category	Religious
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Local News
Type	article
Date	1899-10-19
Paper	Intermountain Catholic
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Category	Religious
Page	4
OCR Text	Show T : Secretary Root in one of hi3 ad- ; dresses recently said: "My friends, the title of America to the island of Luzon is better than the title we had to Louisiana. It rests upon a juster foundation than the title wo had to Texas. It rests upon the sure foundation of international law and the surer foundation of high duty in the family of nations." It is not a question whether our title to the Philippines is better than- soma other bad title, but whether we have an absolutely good and valid one. To determine this it is necessary to know if Spain's title was vaiid, but this was a phase of the question which was very carefully avoided. .From whom did Spain get her title? L
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