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Ward politics were banished from India and Egypt as the price of successful administration, and they must be excluded from Porto Rico and Luzon.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Ward politics were banished from India and Egypt as the price of successful administration, and they must be excluded…”
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Reid argues for the exclusion of local politics from governance in newly acquired territories to ensure effective administration.
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