But the accomplishment by this Republic of its purpose to subjugate the Philippine people to its will, under the claim that it, and not they, had the right to judge of their fitness for self-government, is a rejection of the old American doctrine as applicable to any race we may judge to be our inferior.
Hoar condemns the U.S. government's claim to judge the fitness of the Philippine people for self-government as a rejection of American democratic principles.
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