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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