Whitelaw Reid: “Who dare say that a self-respecting Power could have sailed away from Manila and repudiated the responsibilities of its…”

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.