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Are we not, then, bound in honor and morals to see to it that the government which replaces Spanish rule is better?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Are we not, then, bound in honor and morals to see to it that the government which replaces Spanish rule is better?”
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Reid asserts that the U.S. has an obligation to ensure that the new government in Cuba is an improvement over Spanish rule.
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