There is no way around it, or over or under or out of it; and no way of aimlessly and helplessly shuffling it off on the future, for it presses in the legislation of Congress to-day.
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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An ounce of fact in a matter of such moment is worth tons of random denial.
On every hand rise cries that in any event they cannot and must not be dependencies.
Because they are helpless and needy and on our hands, must we take them into partnership?
Because we are going to help them, are we bound to marry them?
I know it is said, plausibly enough, in some quarters, that Congress cannot foreclose the question,--has nothing to do with it, in fact,--but that it is a matter to be settled only by the Supreme Law of the land, of which Congress is…
As to the mere duty of prompt and ample relief for the distress in Porto Rico, there is happily not a shade of difference of opinion among the seventy-five millions of our inhabitants.
Cynical observers might find, indeed, a gentle amusement in noting how in the name of humanity the blessings of free trade were invoked by means of the demand for an immediate application of the highest protective tariff known to the…
The very men who denounce this tariff as a Chinese wall are the men who demand its application.
The original proposal would have in itself done far less harm than its opponents imagined and far less good than its supporters hoped.
It would have been the rejection of the modern and scientific colonial method, and the adoption instead of the method which has resulted in the most backward, the least productive, and the least prosperous colonies in the world--the…
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.