We thus broke down Spanish means for controlling the Philippines, and were left with the Spanish responsibility for maintaining order there--responsibility to all the world, German, English, Japanese, Russian, and the rest--in one of the great centers and highways of the world's commerce.
Reid discusses the consequences of American actions in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.