To extend now the authority of the United States over the great Philippine Archipelago is to fence in the China Sea and secure an almost equally commanding position on the other side of the Pacific--doubling our control of it and of the fabulous trade the Twentieth Century will see it bear.
Reid argues that extending U.S. authority over the Philippines would enhance American control in the Pacific.
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As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.