George Boutwell: “I have said that the President and his supporters are imperialists.”

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.

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

Shall the avoidance of the Amendment in States of this Union be tendered as a reason for a denial of equality and the right of self-government in the Philippine Islands?

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