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Well, if the elephant must be on our hands, what are we going to do with it?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Well, if the elephant must be on our hands, what are we going to do with it?”
Editor's note · Context
Reid uses a metaphor to question how the U.S. should handle its responsibilities in foreign territories.
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They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?