If we need a law to keep them out, we can make it.
Whitelaw Reid
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Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
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It is a bugbear that the Filipinos would be citizens of the United States, and would therefore have the same rights of free travel and free entry of their own manufactures with other citizens.
The treaty did not make them citizens of the United States at all; and they never will be, unless you neglect your Congress.
If you are ever to part with it, wait at least till you have examined it and found out that you have no use for it.
Before yielding to temporary difficulties at the outset, take time to be quite sure you are ready now to abandon your chance for a commanding position in the trade of China, in the commercial control of the Pacific Ocean, and in the…
Next, resist admission of any of our new possessions as States, or their organization on a plan designed to prepare them for admission.
Stand firm for the present American Union of sister States, undiluted by anybody's archipelagos.
Resist the first insidious effort to change the character of this Union by leaving the continent.
We will do them good and not harm, if we may, all the days of our life; but, please God, we will not divide this Republic, the heritage of our fathers, among them.
Resist the crazy extension of the doctrine that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed to an extreme never imagined by the men who framed it, and never for one moment acted upon in their own practice.
I think I see a course adopted which is likely to turn the Constitution of this land into a deformed monster--into a curse rather than a blessing....
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.