Show IT IS NOT CONQUEST are given to condemning ahe policy of the administration in the philippines walh apparently a desire to evade the facts no one denies that spain had a perfect title to the as lan ds when deweye neet sailed into manila bay we obtained the islands by the treaty of paris and the payment of in that treaty we obal sated ourselves to protected spanish subjects in those islands with the same vigilance that is accorded citizens of the united states As a leading statesman says to take those islands from spain and then deliberately leave her people to the tender mercies of the halt savage races who inhabit hem would be perfidy unparalleled in the annals of civilized nations it we do not want the islands we should not have taken them having taken them we must not sneak out of obligations thus voluntarily assumed an obliga alon ahll more binding because involving the interests of many more people Is that which rests upon us to protect the peaceable tribes of the archipelago brorn the barbarities of the restless with our strong hand withdrawn the ambitious leaders of thai tribe would speedily incite their followers to overrun the archipelago and aring all dofher tribes under their yoke the we may be assured have no scruples about wars of conquest or the ot imperialism they are ready to undertake both we have agreed to prevent them and to give to all the tribes of all the islands such home government as they may devise and prove themselves competent to administer now let us keep our agreement |