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What shall be the policy with which, when order has been inexorably restored, we begin our dealings with the new wards of the Nation?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid raises the question of how the U.S. should approach its new responsibilities towards the Philippines after restoring order.
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They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose destiny has been confided to the wisdom and honor of our Government.
They should strive for distinction by economy, by industry, by sobriety, by patient perseverance in well-doing, by constant improvement of religious instruction, and by the constant practice of Christian virtues.