That would be to put us in an attitude of nauseating national hypocrisy; to give the lie to all our professions of humanity in our interference in Cuba, if not also to prove that our real motive was conquest.
Reid warns that returning the Philippines to Spain would contradict American humanitarian principles and reveal ulterior motives.
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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.
These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.