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Whitelaw Reid: What humanity forbade us to tolerate in the West Indies, it would not justify us in reëstablishing in the Philippines.

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What humanity forbade us to tolerate in the West Indies, it would not justify us in reëstablishing in the Philippines.
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Whitelaw Reid

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that the principles of humanity that justified intervention in Cuba should also apply to the Philippines.

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