On the other hand, some prominent members of the Administration party led off in protests against the retention of the Philippines on constitutional, humanitarian, and economic grounds, pronouncing it a policy absolutely antagonistic to the principles of the Republic and the precursor of its downfall.
Reid discusses the opposition within the Administration regarding the retention of the Philippines.
Share
More from Whitelaw Reid
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.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
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.