George Boutwell: “Our answer is this: In the language that I have quoted the President describes himself as an imperialist.”

Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?

They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.

If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?

Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.