Philippine Independence
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ISBN13: 9780217528078
Paperback|9780217528078
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? The Jones bill fixes a time when, if all goes well, the United States will withdraw from the islands. If all does not go well further legislation may be had. If the bill is so drawn as to make further legislation necessary before this withdrawal takes place the battle will have to be fought over again. Let us cut the knot now as far as possible. Let no one invest money or change his position on the theory that independence is doubtful. Let everyone have full notice that the decision has been made, and let the burden to show cause be on those who wish postponement for any reason. It is time that this question was settled in accordance with the oft- repeated promise of the Democratic Party by the passage of the Jones bill. To insure the success of the Democratic policy the government of the islands should at once be intrusted to men who believe in it. Officers who, like the present Governor General, are bitterly opposed to independence, can do much to obstruct, but are not likely to forward the policy. They will see what happens through the spectacles of their prepossessions. Those things that make for independence will not seem to them important and will not be mentioned. Whatever helps their cause will be emphasized. They have made themselves the leaders in the movement against independence. They are engaged in an active propaganda against the Jones bill, or any like measure. They are not judges, but parties, and, without impugning their honesty, their presentation of the facts is not to be trusted. Is proof desired 1 Let me first give a newspaper statement of the commission's report for the year 1911: Unprecedented prosperity ls being enjoyed by the Philippine Islands, principally as a result of free trade between them and the United States, and t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217528078 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217528074 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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