If the bitterest enemy of the United States had sought to bring upon it in that quarter the greatest trouble in the shortest time, he could have devised for that end no policy more successful than the one we actually pursued.
Reid critiques U.S. policy in the Philippines, suggesting it could not have been more detrimental if designed by an enemy.
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It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.
It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.
They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.