How well would our famous national digestion probably advance if we filled up our Senate with twelve or fourteen more Senators, representing conditions incomparably worse?
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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Practically everybody recognizes now that we must retain control of Cuba's foreign relations.
I will not insult your intelligence or your patriotism by imagining it possible that in view of such considerations you could consent to the madman's policy of taking these islands we control into full partnership with the States of this…
The one thing sure is that no party in power in this country will dare abandon these new possessions.
If you do not help shape them, others, without your high principle and purity of motive, may.
Can you wonder if, while you are harassing the Administration with impracticable demands for an abandonment of territory which the American people will not let go, less unselfish influences are busy presenting candidates for all the…
If the friends of a proper civil service persist in chasing the ignis fatuus of persuading Americans to throw away territory, while the politicians are busy crowding their favorites into the territorial offices, who will feel free from…
By being an active patriot, not a passive one.
My last word is an appeal to stand firm and stand all together for the Continental Union and for a pure civil service for the Islands.
You will credit me, I hope, with sufficient respect for the proprieties of this platform to avoid partizan arguments, under the warrant of your distinguished President to discuss national questions from any point of view that a patriot can…
It is profoundly to be regretted that on these questions, which pure patriotism alone should weigh and decide, mere partizanship is already grasping the scales.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.