If we had treated them as we did Cuba, we should have been saved the public shame of violating not only our own pledges, but the rule of conduct which we had declared to be self-evident truth in the beginning of our history.
Hoar argues that treating the Philippines like Cuba would have spared the U.S. from public shame regarding its promises.
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